President Barack Obama 's Presidency

In the United States, high standard of living is not equally shared with in the Americans. The 1970s and 1990s was period where economic inequality began to grow. Emmanuel Saez, an economics professor at UC Berkeley has been doing a research for the U.S. income inequality. He states that there has been an increase since the 1970s, and has reached levels that have not been seen since 1928. “In 1928, the top 1% of families received 23.9% of all pretax income, while the bottom 90% received 50.7%. But the Depression and World War II dramatically reshaped the nation’s income distribution, by 1944 the top 1%’s share was down to 11.3%, while the bottom 90% were receiving 67.5%, levels that would remain more or less constant for the next three decades. But starting in the mid- to late 1970s, the uppermost percent income share began rising dramatically, while that of the bottom 90% started to fall.”(DeSilver) Ever since then, economic inequality continues to increase, especially in the last three decades.

Wealth inequality in the United States has grown tremendously since 1970. The United States continuously reveals higher rates of inequality as a result of perpetual support for free market capitalism. The high rates of wealth inequality cause the growing financial crisis to persist, lower socio-economic mobility, increase national poverty, and have adverse effects on health and well being.

Income inequality in the United States has been increasing gradually as from the 20th century where there was economic stability. It is estimated that around a quarter of the American worker population receives not more than $10 in an hour. Through this condition, it creates an income that is below what the federal poverty level demands. Those who receive low income include the fast food employees, cashiers, nurse's aides and many more. Other individuals get good payments which are above $10 per hour. Wealth inequality in America is quite common as there are those who are the major economic block and those who can’t afford even the three meals in a day. The social issues that income and wealth inequality might cause in the United States include poverty, household debts becoming high, high crime rates, no health insurance for the low-income families, high mobility rates, high crime rates and school dropouts.

The inequality between the employer and the employee is an enormous problem in the United States. The employer pays the employee a wage that is not livable. The Americans earning the minimum wage are forced to have themselves and their families live on a wage that is not livable. The minimum wage in itself is not enough to support a family. The cost of necessary items to live is going up, while the American worker’s wage stagnates. The necessity items that are needed to live on are getting

Our forty-third president, George W. Bush, was born July 6, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut. He was the eldest of six children and the son of George H.W. Bush and Barbara Pierce-Bush. Bush’s family moved to Midland, Texas in 1948, where he spent most of his childhood and attended school until the seventh grade. The Bush family then moved to Houston, Texas where he attended Kincaid High School before eventually following in his father’s footsteps by attending Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Bush was involved in sports and was over all a good student.

Barrack Obama’s tenure as President of the United States is coming to a close and voters should understand how to gather reliable information on new candidates, such as Jeb Bush. Even though paying attention to all four major types of media platforms; digital, legacy, a candidates’ own media, and social media, creates a sound informative opinion on Republican Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush, digital media provides voters with the most holistic view. The benefits of digital media, throughout the week of September 15th through the 22nd, created an opportunity to construct a different point of view on Bush and what he stands for.

In the article “Obama’s ‘Where’s Waldo’ Presidency,” Ruth Marcus touches up on her opinion of President Obama. She begins her editorial discussing how Barrack Obama talked about “change we can believe in” during his campaign, but then describes how the president has “been missing in action” (Marcus, paragraph 1). Marcus brushes up on most big topics that have happened while Obama was in presidency, and goes over how she believes he handled the situations. It is easy to see Marcus’s opinions, and she ends her editorial explaining that she believes Obama is difficult to find in many situations, and that he does not explicitly say what he agrees or disagrees with (Marcus, paragraph 12).

The election of Obama into the highest political office may have created a great euphoria that the United States had moved past the racism that weighed heavily on the country’s history. Today, after the end of his two-term presidency, it is clear that this elation was substantially unfounded as racism is still an adverse reality that confronts minority groups in the society. The disenfranchisement of racial minorities in the United States is traceable to the onset of the institution of slavery, and its alleviation remains elusive to date particularly because of capitalism. The purpose of this essay is to demonstrate that capitalism is inherently a turbine that constantly produces and strengthens inequalities while finding pretexts to

The film Inequality for All really opened my eyes to a huge and growing problem in the United States, and that is inequality. Our country functions best when it has a healthy and growing middle class. That hasn't been the case for the middle class in over 20 years. The problem that we have is that the rich keep getting richer and the middle class wages stay the same, and sometimes even get lower, causing the inequality percentage to rise. The movie stated that in 1978 the average male worker made $48,302 and the average top 1% made $393,682, and in 2010 that same male worker makes $33,751 and top 1% now makes more than 1 million dollars on average. The richest 400 people in the united states have more money than over half the population combined.

With the presidential elections upon the horizon, it is very crucial to exam the potential candidates. Bernie Sanders is one of the Democratic candidates running for president. He was elected to the United State Senate after sixteen years as a Vermont congressman in the House of Representatives. In 1981, he was elected as mayor of Burlington, Vermont. Under his administration, the city made major strides in affordable housing, child care, progressive taxation, environmental protection, women’s rights, youth programs, and the arts. Now, Bernie Sanders would like to do the same for all of America. American’s should vote for Bernie Sanders to be president because he supports free health care, free college tuition, and getting our middle class

Being the first African American president of the United States was the very first achievement of president Barrack Obama. The former president created history by been ranked one of the presidents who has brought about change in the past a hundred years; from the affordable healthcare, halting the civil war in Iraq, the catching and killing Osama bin laden to changing ethnic demographics. After the eight years of leadership we can confidently say that the Americans are living in a liberated country thanks to the Obama presidency.

I decided to write about the 2008 election between Illinois senator Barack Obama which is our 44th president and Arizona senator John McCain. This election was historical in many ways. For one Barack Obama was the first African-American man to ever be elected president of the United States of America. Another reason would be that the U.S. achieved record voter turnout numbers of African-Americans and Hispanics. Also it is estimated that over a 136 million Americans voted for president in the 2008 election. In the 2008 election the Democratic Party chose senators Barack Obama and Joe Biden as the Vice President. The Republican Party chose senators John McCain and Sarah Palin. The Libertarian Party chose Bob Barr while the independent party

This upcoming presidential election includes a diverse pool of candidates, with a wide variety of opinions coming from different backgrounds. There is one candidate that stands out among the rest: Vermont senator Bernie Sanders. He has decades of experience in politics, which is immensely important for someone holding the position of President. During his time in public service he has demonstrated that he is committed, strong, productive, fair, and honest. Sanders relies on his policies and ideas significantly more than flaunting a charming personality to gain support, and he is able to do this because he has always put a lot of consideration into the decisions he makes. Furthermore, he has always been a strong supporter of quality of opportunity, which is the political ideal advocating the view that the assignment of individuals to places in the social hierarchy is determined by some form of competitive process; all members of society are eligible to compete on equal terms. As president, Sanders would take many steps toward improving this aspect of society. He recognizes that currently there is great disparity in the balance of power, and he has consistently fought towards making the U.S.A. a country where everyone is well taken care of and has access to what they need. If Sanders becomes president, he will fight for everyone to have an equal chance of achieving their own American Dream.

I recently stumbled upon a short video published by The New York Times in 2008 during the pinnacle of Barack Obama’s presidential run. This video, entitles Being Multiracial in America, featured a group of young, mixed-race College students elated that the United States would potentially elect a man that grew up in a blended culture comparable to their own. There was this conspicuous desire shared among these students to live in a society understanding of the intricacies of one’s racial identity. None of these students wished to identify themselves as only one of their races. They wanted to eliminate this illusion of racial choice. To these young people, one person shouldn’t choose what sole race they are because they exist within this category of “both”. The complexity of their own genetic makeup was something they felt would be eradicated by aligning themselves with only a percentage of themselves. Seeing a man run for president who made it known to the country that his mother was White and his father was Black overjoyed these individuals. There was an astounding sense of hope that Barack Obama provided for this group. Their prospect was that once the people of this nation understood that mixed-raced individuals can acknowledge themselves as such, we would be on our way to eradicating this intense racial divide, leading to so much violence and anger, that exists within our country.

There are many inequalities prevalent in the US, and as a capitalist society, one of the most common is economic inequality. The Equality Trust defines economic inequality, as the gap between the well off and less well of in regards to overall economic distribution (“How Is”). See, our capitalist society strongly benefits those with a capitalist mentality and can afford the means to invest/own capital. Over the years there has been an increasing wealth gap between the top one percent earners and the general population. So why are the rich flourishing while the poor are struggling in this capitalist environment? The policy decisions of our country allow this inequality to permeate throughout our industries, thus creating a culture of power and greed. One result of this culture is the explosion of high salaries in the US and Emmanuel Saez explains this trend in Striking it Richer. Saez affirms, “Indeed, estimates based purely on wages and salaries show that the share of total wage and salaries earned by the top 1 percent wage income earners has jumped from 5.1 percent in 1970 to 12.0 percent in 2006” (Grusky 89). Too bad that the 99 percent of America missed out on this massive economic growth spurt. When economic growth is not evenly distributed among the general population, people tend to question our entire system. This has been an increasingly controversial issue, where corporate America is responsible for the constant exploitation of low-level employees. Through my