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    The Wall Street Crash of 1929 marked the start of the great depression which hit America and much of the industrialised world during the 1930’s. The cycle of prosperity turned into a spiral of depression as consumer spending fell by almost half, unemployment rose to over 12 million and there was widespread poverty and homelessness. The Hoover government’s ‘rugged individualism’ meant that people did not receive any relief from the federal government and led to a loss in support for Hoover as people

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    Although America was a confident and optimistic nation in 1917 before the introduction of the two major World Wars and the Vietnam War, this no longer is the case today. Wars have reshaped American history, politically, economically, socially and culturally. Throughout the course of time religious structures have been falling, events such the Great Depression have caused unemployment, divorce and crime rates have skyrocketed and suicide coupled with violence has gained much popularity and acceptance

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    Simple Solution There are many homeless people out on the streets of this great nation. Ten years ago, nobody would have expected that America would be this far in the slumps. Rather than feeling lucky to have a playground to play on at a great school, children are now lucky to have just one of their two parents working for minimum wage. With the average unemployment rate hovering above seven percent over the last eight years, America’s youth are growing up in a world where dreams no longer come true

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    29, 1929, America experienced the most calamitous stock market crash in its history. Although some tried to prevent the crash from getting worse, the fear and panic that so many Americans felt, caused them to make a horrible situation even worse. The 1929 stock market crash affected America in several ways, causing America to go from a time of prosperity, to a time of strife, leading Americans to lose billions of dollars and also leading to an increase in homelessness and unemployment rates, leaving

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    better than the United States in the aspect of unemployment, but the US currently has a very low rate of 4.8% (List of Countries). The country that is currently doing the best is Qatar with a rate of 0.4%. This could be for many reasons such as population (List of Countries). One thing that I have found is that there is a direct correlation to standard of living and unemployment rate. Many of the poorer countries in the world have a much higher unemployment, such as

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    weekly voice of the Index Investing Radio Show). The U.S. unemployment statistics are not exempt from this theory. There are a few ways the American government calculates the unemployment rate. The two approaches that I will be focusing on are referred to as the U-3 and the U-6. The U-3 is the best known, and the most commonly used unemployment statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). It calculates the U.S. unemployment rate by taking the total number of unemployed persons and

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    No Jobs In America Today

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    background This paper is a final essay assignment for SOC 3421W which is “Sociology of Work: Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs?”. This essay is about “No Jobs” in America today, and the effects of a jobless situation on individuals, and my policy recommendations for increasing good jobs, reducing bad jobs, and eliminating no jobs will be described in this essay. This sample is the first part of the essay which includes introduction and some parts about the term, causes and consequences. I have some concerns

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    Brandon Phan Phan 1 Ms. Barrett English 5 20 November 2015 Rough Draft With an unemployment rate of 5% and a population of about 326,079,646 people, there can be about 163,039,823 unemployed people in the United states. There are many things that the United States government can do to reduce Unemployment. In order to reduce the unemployment rate in the United States, the United States government could reduce the federal minimum wage to allow employers to hire more employees because of

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    Poverty in the United States of America Students Name Institutions Name Statistics indicates a rise in poverty levels in most countries all over the world. In America, more than 15% of the population lives in poverty and deplorable living conditions. Poverty and homelessness are particularly high amongst children living in the United States. Poverty is considered as the inability to meet one’s basic needs due to lack of money. It is state of deprivation in which a person lacks and is unable

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    An issue that has been debating throughout centuries is whether or not America should increase the minimum wage. This is an issue that has been arising to be relevant to people all over the nation. Researches have provided logical facts and statistics on how increasing the minimum wage would be the solution to America’s debt. Increasing the minimum wage has also been successful in several countries including Germany. Studies have shown that decreasing the minimum wage is unlikely to solve any economic

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