Pew Research Center

As President Barack Obama’s presidency nears completion, it is natural that America as a whole should look back and ask the question, “Am I better off than I was four, or even eight years ago?” Although there are too many issues an administration faces in eight years to focus on all of them, one of President Obama’s most notable acts in his two terms in office is the passing of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), more commonly known as Obamacare. It remains a controversial law, and has already faced multiple

recent study demonstrates that “nearly half of college graduates in their [twenties] are underemployed” (Selingo). The result signifies that employers do not expect the graduate to hold a bachelor’s degree. In reality, Richard Vedder, Director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, notes statistics that reveal there are “16,000 parking lot attendants with bachelor’s degrees, … 83,000 bartenders and 115,000 janitors.” Graduates must learn to acquire jobs that mirror the effort employed

More than half the states in the union have passed some form of legislation decriminalizing marijuana for either medical or recreational use despite Schedule I classification (a substance with no medical values and high potential for abuse) by the federal government. Cannabis prohibition has remained a controversial topic for the better part of the last century, and popular opinion has begun to shift. Although banned in most countries, cannabis has long been used in a variety of industrial, medicinal

personal use people may use a gun for is hunting, self-defense, sports or whatever they wish to do. (Perez-Pena 25) According to a February 2013 Pew Research Report, 32 percent of gun owners own guns for hunting and 7 percent own guns for target or sport shooting. (ProCon 7) The majority of people feel safer when they own and have a gun with them. A Pew Foundation report said that 79 percent of male gun owners and 80 percent of female gun owners said owning a gun made them feel safer. (ProCon 6)

A NATION OF IMMIGRANTS The Ways that Immigration has Shaped and Benefited the United States of America Scott Williams US History Plato Unit Activity "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free..." -- Emma Lazarus (from the poem "The New Colossus) These words by Emma Lazarus, inscribed on a plaque on the Statue of Liberty, strike a chord of yearning for freedom in the minds of suffering yet hopeful people, and invoke a picture of the United States meeting the immigrant

loving heart for others. There are so many people that are in this world that have some religion. Here is a breakdown by the Pew Forum on Religion & the Public Life on the religious landscape in America, Christianity 78.4% (51% Protestant, 3% Catholic, 4% Other Christian), and Unaffiliated 16.1%, Other Religions 4.7% and Refused to answer 0.8% (The Pew Research Center Washington, D.C, 2008). If all there religions came together as a church and a community then there will be better understanding

achieve a measure of economic prosperity. Immigrants and refugees are entrepreneurs, job creators, taxpayers, and consumers. According to Center for American Progress “They add trillions of dollars to the U.S. gross domestic product, or GDP, and their economic importance will only increase in the coming decades as America’s largest generation.” The goal of this research paper is to construct a strong case that illegal immigration/deportation should be dealt in a different manner, show how America benefits

that created a gigantic difference in the way individuals interact, promote their opinions, share thoughts, and even impact others. Especially teenagers and youths spend more time in social media than anyone else. According to the report by Pew Research Center published in 2015, 92% of teens go online daily including 24% who go online almost

Race and ethnicity are terms that are commonly mistaken for one another every day. According to sociologists and authors, Markus and Moya, race is a “dynamic set of historically derived and institutionalized ideas and practices that group certain people according to physical and behavioral human characteristics that are negative and shared.” Race was developed on a social context due to the fact that the dominant cultures labeled people with darker skin tones as different and inferior. Ethnicity

Social justice is defined as “justice in terms of the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society” (Oxford Dictionaries). In reality, social justice is so much more than its definition. It is the goal of equality attained through fair and unbiased treatment of the population. The United States of America has not reached this level of equality. Because of this, in order to attain true social justice, fair and unbiased treatment may require more than simply the same treatment