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    all American’s; the most effected by low economic shortcomings is the middle class. The realization that the middle class is slowing beginning to diminish and dissolve is becoming more and more unsettling for many. The low minimum wages and high unemployment rates tend to be the main focus when analyzing the drop in middle class economic stability. One fix is to raise minimum wages to a more appropriate rate for living standards; the current federal minimum wage is set at $7.25 per hour. At $7.25 an

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    MA 106 Unemployment: Support Our Fellow Americans by Representative Caroline Madsen, Liberal New Dealer Greetings my fellow committee members. We need to support our nation’s people in this time of need. In the year 1934 the U.S. reported that there were 21.30% of people without a job. This means that of the 39+ million people in the U.S. 8,286,243 people are living without an income. With no jobs these fellow Americans have no way of supporting themselves. Our proposal lends a helping hand to

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    government offer help to unemployment In the modern American society, many well-educated people cannot get a good job, such as Jennifer, an American woman who lose her job and get a low-paid job but she gives up because the salary can’t afford the expenses of the whole family. According to the latest article on Market Watch website, Jeffry Bartash showed the data about the current percentage of unemployment and assumed that though the firms offer many opportunities to work, the unemployment rates still remain

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    Unemployment has been a big issue in the United States for many years and is still a big issue today. Although the big problem that we’re still facing is the difference between blacks and whites. The overall unemployment rate for black americans is 7.4% and for white americans it’s 3.8%, that’s a very big difference between both races. Policy makers accept this problem as normal and no one does anything about it to make things right. Also people don’t realize that black americans have a harder time

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    Every year, the unemployment rate is measured in the United States. The term unemployment refers to the group of people who are actively searching for work and do not have a job. Certain groups of individuals, however, are not factored into the measurement of unemployment on an annual basis. People who are under the age of sixteen, are institutionalized, or are not actively looking for a job are not added when counting unemployment. There are four major types of unemployment, and they include frictional

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    America has made mistakes before, now the country plans out their economy’s future a little more. One of the top five largest economies in the world, the United States, promises for new laws regulating and decreasing in tax burdens in United States’ markets. Americans can expect to see a faster growth than previous years, and according to Forbes article The U.S. Economy In 2017: Welcome Higher Growth, “the U.S. economy will be a key driving force of other Western economies” (Chafuen 1). Especially

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    The issue of unemployment and poverty is becoming more popular in America. Citizens are having trouble finding jobs which eventually leads them to being in a state of poverty. Poverty is a serious concern and there could be more that America can do to help prevent or reduce it. Starting charity programs for the poor is a substantial way to get the people that are in poverty back on their feet again. It gives them hope that they can look for a way to get income. Another solution could be to create

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    persistence. The Great Depression was a period of catastrophes that led to financial difficulties (“Great” 1; “Depression” 1). The Depression was mostly in America (specifically North America), but there were other countries that also felt the effects of it. It started in 1929 and ended in 1941, at the beginning of World War II. There was lots of unemployment and poverty that defined the decade of the 1930s. The decade dominated the lives of the Americans and greatly changed their political views and bonds

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    problems facing the United States of America today. I will present these problems in order for most important, to least important. I will talk about how these problems came to be and discuss what my research stated. I will then give my reasoning for selecting each problem and discuss my ideas for correcting these problems. I believe that America is facing a great deal of problems at this time; however, the top four issues in my opinion are economic instability, unemployment, gun control and limitations

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    Brazil is a large country which located in South America and has the second largest economy in America, after the United states. Brazil's capital city is Brasilia and it has the largest population in South America. As we will present in this paper, the two economic indicators: Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita and the unemployment rate. And the two investment incentives, which are two tax incentives: repes and reporto. A very important economic indicator to know the health of an economy is

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