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- 1. Carlos Solis Economics of Social Issues 101-500 Summer Semester 2012
- 6. 1993 Total Federal Spending: Social Security Retirement and disability $419 billion Medicare $143 billion Medicaid $132 billion A.F.D.C. or (Assistance to families with dependent children) $12.2 billion or 1.5% of all federal spending http://www.spaoa.org/splash/?type=welfare&group =singlemothers_content &singleparentsallianceofamerica
- 11. The Congressional Budget Office did a study in 2011 and found that from 1992-2007 the top one percent of earners in America saw their interest increase a whopping 392% (including federal and income transfers). Despite the riches and success that the top 400 executives bring in, congress still allows a tax rate reduction of 37%, while the working class brings in less than ½ of American income (including federal and income transfers). In 2011 this phenomena ignited the “Occupy” protest movement when middle class America, and citizens from destitute neighborhoods united with other activist around the world to bring to light this disparity. Some economist would say that government intervention would only be detrimental to this economic disproportion, but the reality is that the institution behind this nation’s independence was built on the principles against monarchy leadership. Therefore government plays a vital role in checking the gains of the top 1%, or at least eliminating tax breaks to the rich resulting in a surplus of necessary funds. Government could improve the social economic condition of the majority and eliminate discrimination creating equilibrium in the American work force. http://www.wikipedia.org/income inequality
- 12. www.census.gov www.wikipedia.org google.com htpp://borderzine.com http://www.spaoa.org http://www.squidoo.com http://www.bing.com/souplineimages http://www.fbi.gov http://www.bing.com/images/incomeinequality http://www.usesalvationarmy.org We the Poor People Joel F. Handler and Yeheskel Hasenfeld Late to Class Jane A. Van Galen and George W. Noblit Created by Carlos R.Solis
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- In the European sixteenth and seventeenth century attitude towards the poor was one of contempt, the sick were put in hospitals and the healthy were chained together to clean the drains, the point was to locate the destitute where they wouldn’t be a bother. Today in American society the number of poor households has exceeded the number recorded in the 1950’s,many policy makers assume that if people wanted to work they would find work. It is easier to focus on the individual rather than the tougher issues of labor markets, and income distribution. Source: We the Poor People Joel F. Handler & Yeheskel Hasenfeld 1997 pg. 3-18
- The Housing Act of 1937, provides rental assistance to approximately 3.1 million low-income dwellers.
- Soup Kitchens are used as a means to bring temporary relief to needy people and combat hunger. The true human spirit of giving reflects in the selflessness of American Society. However, we cannot omit that there is an economic need when providing meals to the homeless.
- Despite the fact that construction jobs offer employers healthy profits, most employees are immigrant workers, they work under extreme weather conditions at a fast pace, doing heavy physical work and have little or no job benefits such as paid holidays, sick time off or profit sharing.
- President Bill Clinton put into action a policy that eliminated entitlement and gave the states the option to opt out of distributing assistance meant for single mothers in 1996. The plan came with time limits on assistance, requirements to participate in parenting courses and job search programs, however the program failed to address the need for childcare for the working mother, or labor market reform so that the working mother could make enough to pay for her own childcare. Source: We the Poor People Joel F Handler and Yeheskel Hasenfeld pg. 3-18
- Drug dependence and alcoholism can lead to poverty, the need to escape reality by staying high can cloud the victims judgment. Spending all of his or her money even committing crime to finance the chemical euphoria while simultaneously causing physical and mental damage.
- Ghettos become a combat zone in the struggle for turf control and the sale of illegal drugs. Ruthless gang members go to extreme measures to keep control of the one thing they believe they can control in their lives, their ghetto.
- American conformist contend that people enter the work force and educational institutions with the same likelihood of success. Yet centered on family race ,income, and language skills pupils offer dissimilar capabilities. When a young person fails to meet the expectations of society due to distractions coming from home such as hunger , drug addiction, alcoholism or conflict between the adults in charge of the household, adolescents may be overwhelmed to just give up ,drop out or turn to a life of crime or drug addiction. How could a nation venerated by the rest of the world turn its back on the millions of children living within its borders in poverty and accept its social cost? Sources: We the Poor People, Joel F. Handler and Yeheskel Hasenfeld 1997 pg. 3-18 Late to Class, Jane A. Van Galen and George W. Noblit 2007 pg. 235-237
- What America needs is leadership that isn’t out of touch with the people, financial gains in wall street are part of a progressive society but big financial gains should be redirected towards the workers that helped the firms get there.