America today is now struggling with poverty. Two-thirds of working age poor were unemployed in the last year and suffer from poverty. Poverty, defined as earning less than 200 percent of the official poverty rate, which is $22,811 for a family of four. 31% of families even have both parents working and even then they can’t pay for living essentials. This means that nearly a third of all working families may not have enough money to meet basic needs. The people most affected are the southern and western families. This is kind of like what happened after the civil war. Lots of people in the USA suffered from poverty, most of it in the south too, because that's where the battles were held and they couldn’t have slaves anymore with the economy of the south depended on. The industry and factories in the north had been helped by the war, which caused the northern economy to go up.
Your articles are just like mine because they both talk about families and the struggles between rich and poor classes and the amount they are earning. Also my articles talk about poor families their disadvantages compared rich families.
These 3 articles are about income inequality and the middle class disappearing. The upper class, and lower class are the only classes left. The wealthy people were at a greater advantage while the lower class people are struggling to make ends meet for food, housing, and child care. The inequalities between the classes and their income is effecting the economy as a whole. Income inequality is also the cause of poverty in families. the children aren't getting the right education and health care a child is supposed to receive. These articles connect to history in that poverty was a big deal in the past. Wealthier families, and upper class families had way more advantages such as owning land, owning slaves, and voting. the lower class had to live in poverty and had to go long nights without eating. even though health care back then wasn't as good as it is now, the wealthier families received more health care than the lower class. Education wasn't even an option for lower class, but available for upper class families.
The three articles I chose focus on the wealth inequality in our country. It discusses about the distribution of wealth, split up into five different groups - the poor, the wealthy, and the three different middle classes. It mainly focuses on the average American's earnings in their work, and also the growing rate of unemployment in our country. I focus this back on the West because it reminded me of the unfair treatment to farmers, by reducing the cost of their crops and taxing them heavily to use the railroad to export the wheat and corn. It also reminded me of the cowboys in the West, and their meager pay compared to their hard and laborious work. They commonly lived on large estates under wealthy landowners who owned the cattle they drove across the Plains; the cowboys often received little pay for herding the longhorns to the railroads in Kansas.
Interesting comparison with the West. Do you see any comparisons with our current study of the rise of big business, inventions, Social Darwinism, Gospel of Wealth, etc.?
I think that the Gospel of Wealth portrays wealth inequality in our country fairly well. I also believe that the money problems in our country is another way to show how Social Darwinism couldn't work within our nation -- if people like CEOs or wealthy businessmen (the top 20%) continue to take the largest amounts of income and the biggest shares of the wealth in the USA, the middle class and poor will only continue to suffer and receive little help.
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economywatch/weak-jobs-growth-beyond-governments-control-984986 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/02/business/economy/us-adds-157000-jobs-unemployment-rate-edges-up-to-7-9.html?_r=0 http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/03/06/economy/job-recovery-recession?refid=0&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MPR_Business+(Business+from+Minnesota+Public+Radio) The recession in this day and age is at a lingering low. The unemployment rate is up unbearably high, just under 8%, and it’s taking a toll on our everyday lives. Job fairs have never been busier, but that’s not necessarily a good thing. Jobs raise and dip without warning, and the employment recovery is left with the simple term of being unpredictable. Education employment rates are at a tremendous low at the moment, and the entire market is erratic with the ups and downs. This makes finding a secure, long-term job next to impossible to find. The railroads had the job economy raising and dipping as well. There were huge sparks of employment as the Transcontinental Railroad was being built, but once the two tracks met little jobs were left over to maintain the roads. When the mining profession hit, the job economy was even more wavering. As the veins were struck and the boomtowns grew, people overworked in an effort of growing extremely rich. But as soon as the ground was cleared out as well as all the minerals along with it, those turned into ghost towns. This mirrors the growth and decreasing of job economy today, and was as equally frustrating and risky back then as it is now.
Our blog posts are similar because they both relate to the unemployment in the US today. Our connections are different, however, because I connected mine back to farmers and the unfair pricing to their crops, as well as cowboys' unfair pay.
http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/blog/1749/rebuilding_after_hurricane_sandy/ http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/04/politics/house-sandy-bill-vote http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/02/ice-cream-puddle-rice-ca_n_2060539.html When Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast late last year, thousands of people were affected. Homes were destroyed and people were left without jobs, food, or money. Many of these people were illegal immigrants that could not file for insurance because they feared being deported. A lot of them then went on to work as construction workers to rebuild houses and towns. Billions of dollars were donated to relief funds for Hurricane Sandy victims, but not before the amount of money being donated was fought over. The two sides of the government had to agree on an amount of money to donate to the victims. In addition, many small businesses were ruined by Hurricane Sandy and all the flooding. Owners found their inventory and stored ruined after the storm. Hurricane Sandy relates to many elements of Reconstruction after the Civil War. First, the immigrants that are working as construction workers to rebuild houses are almost exactly like the Chinese immigrants that worked in the mines. Both the immigrants working on Sandy relief and the immigrants working in the mines were underpaid, looking for money, and given the most dangerous jobs. Second, the argument over how much money to donate to the Sandy victims is just like the North and the South trying to agree on things after the Civil War. The two sides on the government disagreed on the donation amount just like the two sides of the country disagreed on the laws after the Civil War, especially on how African Americans were treated. Thirdly, the homesteaders that went West to farm on their 160 acres were affected by thunder storms and tornadoes just like small business owners were during Sandy. Their crops were ruined, which served as their food. Hurricane Sandy and the Reconstruction of the South have many similarities.
Through the recent economic hiccups in the United States and Europe, many technology companies have suffered varying degrees of failures with their stocks. Delta Airlines, having increased prices earlier in 2013, for the suspected oil price hike for the summer. Through some of the data many transportation services have hit even keel through nearly the first quarter of 2013, while other companies, IBM, are gaining tremendous stocks through a more technologically developed world outside the United States.
While the Stock Market in New York has since eclipsed pre-recession numbers, Eastern world countries have had stock market mistakes as well. One example got as far as a government collapse of Greece. The relation of these to Western Expansion is when the railroad companies garnered land from the government and provided the cost of ticket riding, shipping, etc. at unstable prices. Through the railroad though it exploded shipping and ideas to make crossfire with the rest of the States, then the World. A prime example was the founder of Sears, he started selling watches then in a decades time was leading a global shipping enterprise thanks to the Transcontinental railroad.
The problem with then to now, is that with the United States not being self sufficient, they in turn cannot help the inflation of prices to their business, airline companies have to revoke main name objects that made their companies different, like SouthWest Airlines getting rid of their, “Bags fly Free,” campaign.
I really like the way you described what has been happening with the U.S.'s economics. Also I love how you used really big words. All in all your blog was really good and it had a lot of great detail in it.
I really think you did a good job explaining the crisis in U.S economics today. Also I like how you used big words. All in all I thought it was really good and had a lot of detail in it.
Currently in the United States, President Obama has been working on bringing new job plans into action. Obama feels the economy is failing because a decent amount of the population is jobless. Families are struggling to survive, and many families are homeless. As a result in trying to bring more jobs to the people, Obama wants to bring up more construction jobs. This is because he also wants to improve infrastructure. Just as Obama wants to improve the economy such as improving infrastructure, The Transcontinental Railroad was also and an improvement in the economy as well as a bus load of jobs for many people. Not only did building this railroad improve the economy, it also help many families. Also, the same way Obama is trying to come up with plans to benefit citizens of the United States back in history homesteader were also benefited by a plan called the Homesteaders Act. Just as it was back then in that creating new jobs was a necessity, it is today for many citizen of the United States.
During the Gilded Age and Progressive age, the nation suffered from great poverty. Poverty from city slums gathering up diseases and illnesses that could have been prevented. During the Gilded Age, wealth was in power and poverty was covered up by the wealth that the nation was receiving. In that era it was known for being the richest, but the Gilded Age is sugar coated. Not everything was revealed back then, you could see poverty but that got covered up with riches. Then the progressive age came and that was an era where people wanted to change the nation’s poverty and expose the bad side. There were people exposing companies and the dirt underneath the gilded age is released. Now we are in the year 2013 and dealing with extreme poverty nationwide, President Barrack Obama assigned Jim Yong Kim to this project to reduce world poverty for the people who live off $1.25. This organization is called the World Bank and they are trying to help the people who need more help with receiving money. Although President Barrack Obama said it is difficult, but also achievable through hard work. About 1.2 billion live off $1.25 in 2005. They are ensuring a greater need for women and children to have an opportunity for an education and health. Jim Yong Kim plans to end extreme poverty by 2030.
Google is being accused of monopolizing the market on Android technology smart phones with pre-downloaded apps that come with the phone. If the Android makers want to include Google owned must-have apps like YouTube and Google Maps they have to have several Google apps preloaded in prominent places by default. Google is also offering the OS at such a low price that other companies can’t compete with. Monopolies and monopolistic tactics like this could be troublesome for Google as they are not legal.
Recently in class we have been talking about tycoons and their monopolies. Google’s monopolistic techniques are similar to that of Rockefeller. He was able to put such low prices on the oil his company produced that other oil companies had a hard time competing with it and were either driven out of business or bought by Standard Oil. Both Standard Oil and Google are driving out their competition with low prices to secure a monopoly, however in Google’s case it’s no longer legal. There is now a very public enforcement of anti-monopolistic laws in the current U.S. legal system that did not exist during the time of Rockefeller’s Standard Oil.
Unemployment in the U.S has been a big topic of discussion over the past couple of years. More and More people are losing their jobs and are having to resort to welfare and food stamps and other things like that. Although recently, the unemployment rate has dropped to a new low and less people are filing for unemployment benefits. The department of Labor estimated that the number of people filing for unemployment benefits has decreased by 42,000 people. It's still not a lot though compared to the amount of unemployed people in the U.S currently.
This can be connected to the employment during the Gilded Age. Big business was booming everywhere during this time. Industry was taking off and large companies were hiring a lot of people. Of course there were still some people who were poor because they got laid off from a job or they were trying to start a new business and the tycoons in that same industry forced them to sell their it to them and as well as many other reasons. Overall though, employment was pretty plentiful and the economy was at one of its most stable points in history.
The poverty and economy in America is at an all-time low, and it hasn't been this bad since The Great Depression of the 1930s. People have been trying futilely to reveal this to the public, and numerous charities have been held, laws passed to help those struggling in our country. Americans offer support to those struggling to make a living; help comes in the form of shelters, food stamps, unemployment checks, and loans. Still, it is made clear that America's core problem is the ever-growing poverty levels. This reminded me of the poverty levels and the poor living conditions of the lower class during the early 1900s, some of it even leading up to the Great Depression in the 1930s, when the economy had last crashed and reached its rock bottom. As poverty increased in the 1900s, help began to come, not in food stamps or charities, but in other ways. Fire safety and building codes became mandatory for the tenements in which the poor lived. Settlement houses were developed for immigrants struggling to make a life in America. Similar to what we are attempting to do now, the economy had managed to heal itself after the Great Depression, and America resolved its problems and moved towards a brighter future. That's what we're trying to do now, solve the economy crises before we experience a crash like in the 1930s, and help those struggling in the lower class.
Poverty in the United States has been one of the more concerning problems at the moment. According to NBC news, there are 46 million Americans living below the poverty line. This also includes 16 million children. The nation has been working on a solution to help reduce these numbers greatly over the past years. Currently, President Obama has been saying that it will take everyone working together to overcome poverty all throughout the country. Poverty has existed and followed us all through America’s past. During the growth of American cities, poverty was at a new high. Many poor people saw more opportunity for them in cities, but when they arrived they remained poor. Many were unemployed or had a low paying job, and as a result were living in very dirty and unclean living conditions. To help solve this growing issue, Christians saw it their duty to step up and help the less fortunate. Community centers and settlement houses were set into place to help those who were struggling. Like today, many were working towards a solution to reduce poverty.
In the United States today the American Deficit and the National Debt has been one of the biggest issues. As of now our debt stands at a staggering 16 trillion dollars and is rising constantly. The American Deficit is the act of spending money that we don’t have. For every dollar that the United States pay 40 cents of that dollar is borrowed. Also there are more than 41% of people on a federal government program; this has gone up drastically from the year 2000 to the year 2011. The national debt will continue to rise higher if we keep spending irresponsible. This is related to class, because with the boom of the big business and monopolies that were being established, they needed more money from the government to keep their business. Also with the monopolies taking over the smaller business there was a lot of unemployment. And with that many people could have been on federal government programs to help them with money and other necessary things needed to live. This increased the American deficit and followed by the national debt as well.
World poverty is a huge problem that not only America but the entire world is facing. More than 1 billion people worldwide are facing hardships due to poverty and world hunger. Slums still exist in the world and thousands of kids go to sleep hungry everyday. The economy is affecting many poor people in negative ways. Many families are struggling for all the basic necessities to survive. Food, shelter, and clothes are a struggle for many families. Parents are struggling to give their children proper education because they just can't afford it. A solution to this problem has finally been found and it is to seek International Food Aid. Administration is proposing that the government buys food in developing countries instead of shipping food from American farmers and then shipping it abroad. This way it will take less longer for the food to get to families. This connects to what we are learning in class in that poverty was a huge issue back then as well. Also, just as different campaigns are being set up to help the families back then tycoons donated and organized charities to raise money. Just as slums existed back the, they still exist now.
Each of these articles are from April, 2013 and they all talk about the high amounts of poverty in the United States. The first article has some random facts about poverty. Some of these facts include: one in every six Americans are now living in poverty, more than a million public school students in the United States are homeless, the number of Americans on food stamps now exceeds the entire population of Spain, and that 2.8 million children living in the United States are living on $2.00 a day or less. The second article mentions how congress is not doing anything about America’s poverty. Even though our poverty rate is at a high of 15% it is still ignored in congress. It’s not that congress is not able to do anything to fix it, because they most certainly could. Instead they choose to do nothing about it. The final article talks about how crime and violence in the United States could be triggered by poverty. It states that gangs and violence are tied with poor people, not the rich. All of this information about our countries poverty can be related to the time periods that we are learning about in class. We can relate it to living conditions of the poor during the Progressive Era. During this era poor people were living in tenements, children had to work in order to support the family, there was filth in the streets, and many more horrible situations. So, in all, America has always had poor people, and if congress does nothing about it, it will always be this way.
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20130206/EDIT02/302060053/A-maze-poverty-land-opportunity
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/15/us-working-poor_n_2476463.html
America today is now struggling with poverty. Two-thirds of working age poor were unemployed in the last year and suffer from poverty. Poverty, defined as earning less than 200 percent of the official poverty rate, which is $22,811 for a family of four. 31% of families even have both parents working and even then they can’t pay for living essentials. This means that nearly a third of all working families may not have enough money to meet basic needs. The people most affected are the southern and western families. This is kind of like what happened after the civil war. Lots of people in the USA suffered from poverty, most of it in the south too, because that's where the battles were held and they couldn’t have slaves anymore with the economy of the south depended on. The industry and factories in the north had been helped by the war, which caused the northern economy to go up.
Your articles are just like mine because they both talk about families and the struggles between rich and poor classes and the amount they are earning. Also my articles talk about poor families their disadvantages compared rich families.
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http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/19/inequality-is-holding-back-the-recovery/
These 3 articles are about income inequality and the middle class disappearing. The upper class, and lower class are the only classes left. The wealthy people were at a greater advantage while the lower class people are struggling to make ends meet for food, housing, and child care. The inequalities between the classes and their income is effecting the economy as a whole. Income inequality is also the cause of poverty in families. the children aren't getting the right education and health care a child is supposed to receive.
These articles connect to history in that poverty was a big deal in the past. Wealthier families, and upper class families had way more advantages such as owning land, owning slaves, and voting. the lower class had to live in poverty and had to go long nights without eating. even though health care back then wasn't as good as it is now, the wealthier families received more health care than the lower class. Education wasn't even an option for lower class, but available for upper class families.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/06/this-viral-video-is-right-we-need-to-worry-about-wealth-inequality/
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http://www.laobserved.com/biz/2013/03/tired_of_hearing_abo.php
The three articles I chose focus on the wealth inequality in our country. It discusses about the distribution of wealth, split up into five different groups - the poor, the wealthy, and the three different middle classes. It mainly focuses on the average American's earnings in their work, and also the growing rate of unemployment in our country.
I focus this back on the West because it reminded me of the unfair treatment to farmers, by reducing the cost of their crops and taxing them heavily to use the railroad to export the wheat and corn. It also reminded me of the cowboys in the West, and their meager pay compared to their hard and laborious work. They commonly lived on large estates under wealthy landowners who owned the cattle they drove across the Plains; the cowboys often received little pay for herding the longhorns to the railroads in Kansas.
Interesting comparison with the West. Do you see any comparisons with our current study of the rise of big business, inventions, Social Darwinism, Gospel of Wealth, etc.?
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I think that the Gospel of Wealth portrays wealth inequality in our country fairly well. I also believe that the money problems in our country is another way to show how Social Darwinism couldn't work within our nation -- if people like CEOs or wealthy businessmen (the top 20%) continue to take the largest amounts of income and the biggest shares of the wealth in the USA, the middle class and poor will only continue to suffer and receive little help.
Deletehttp://www.nbcnews.com/business/economywatch/weak-jobs-growth-beyond-governments-control-984986
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http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/03/06/economy/job-recovery-recession?refid=0&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MPR_Business+(Business+from+Minnesota+Public+Radio)
The recession in this day and age is at a lingering low. The unemployment rate is up unbearably high, just under 8%, and it’s taking a toll on our everyday lives. Job fairs have never been busier, but that’s not necessarily a good thing. Jobs raise and dip without warning, and the employment recovery is left with the simple term of being unpredictable. Education employment rates are at a tremendous low at the moment, and the entire market is erratic with the ups and downs. This makes finding a secure, long-term job next to impossible to find.
The railroads had the job economy raising and dipping as well. There were huge sparks of employment as the Transcontinental Railroad was being built, but once the two tracks met little jobs were left over to maintain the roads. When the mining profession hit, the job economy was even more wavering. As the veins were struck and the boomtowns grew, people overworked in an effort of growing extremely rich. But as soon as the ground was cleared out as well as all the minerals along with it, those turned into ghost towns. This mirrors the growth and decreasing of job economy today, and was as equally frustrating and risky back then as it is now.
Our blog posts are similar because they both relate to the unemployment in the US today. Our connections are different, however, because I connected mine back to farmers and the unfair pricing to their crops, as well as cowboys' unfair pay.
DeleteI like how you connected it to something different because it just shows how unemployment varied now and back then.
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http://www.theinvestigativefund.org/blog/1749/rebuilding_after_hurricane_sandy/
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/02/ice-cream-puddle-rice-ca_n_2060539.html
When Hurricane Sandy hit the East Coast late last year, thousands of people were affected. Homes were destroyed and people were left without jobs, food, or money. Many of these people were illegal immigrants that could not file for insurance because they feared being deported. A lot of them then went on to work as construction workers to rebuild houses and towns. Billions of dollars were donated to relief funds for Hurricane Sandy victims, but not before the amount of money being donated was fought over. The two sides of the government had to agree on an amount of money to donate to the victims. In addition, many small businesses were ruined by Hurricane Sandy and all the flooding. Owners found their inventory and stored ruined after the storm.
Hurricane Sandy relates to many elements of Reconstruction after the Civil War. First, the immigrants that are working as construction workers to rebuild houses are almost exactly like the Chinese immigrants that worked in the mines. Both the immigrants working on Sandy relief and the immigrants working in the mines were underpaid, looking for money, and given the most dangerous jobs. Second, the argument over how much money to donate to the Sandy victims is just like the North and the South trying to agree on things after the Civil War. The two sides on the government disagreed on the donation amount just like the two sides of the country disagreed on the laws after the Civil War, especially on how African Americans were treated. Thirdly, the homesteaders that went West to farm on their 160 acres were affected by thunder storms and tornadoes just like small business owners were during Sandy. Their crops were ruined, which served as their food. Hurricane Sandy and the Reconstruction of the South have many similarities.
I accidently posted this is both categories, political and economics.
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http://www.hks.harvard.edu/var/ezp_site/storage/fckeditor/file/pdfs/centers-programs/centers/mrcbg/programs/ssp/docs/documents/2013/clark_sust_dev_challenges_for_energy_policy_130128.pdf
Through the recent economic hiccups in the United States and Europe, many technology companies have suffered varying degrees of failures with their stocks. Delta Airlines, having increased prices earlier in 2013, for the suspected oil price hike for the summer. Through some of the data many transportation services have hit even keel through nearly the first quarter of 2013, while other companies, IBM, are gaining tremendous stocks through a more technologically developed world outside the United States.
While the Stock Market in New York has since eclipsed pre-recession numbers, Eastern world countries have had stock market mistakes as well. One example got as far as a government collapse of Greece. The relation of these to Western Expansion is when the railroad companies garnered land from the government and provided the cost of ticket riding, shipping, etc. at unstable prices. Through the railroad though it exploded shipping and ideas to make crossfire with the rest of the States, then the World. A prime example was the founder of Sears, he started selling watches then in a decades time was leading a global shipping enterprise thanks to the Transcontinental railroad.
The problem with then to now, is that with the United States not being self sufficient, they in turn cannot help the inflation of prices to their business, airline companies have to revoke main name objects that made their companies different, like SouthWest Airlines getting rid of their, “Bags fly Free,” campaign.
I really like the way you described what has been happening with the U.S.'s economics. Also I love how you used really big words. All in all your blog was really good and it had a lot of great detail in it.
DeleteI really think you did a good job explaining the crisis in U.S economics today. Also I like how you used big words. All in all I thought it was really good and had a lot of detail in it.
DeleteThanks Sam. It's nice to know that you think so highly of my writing. It actually wasn't that hard to spruce up and connect my points.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/20/1188527/-Obama-rolls-out-new-infrastructure-jobs-nbsp-planv
Currently in the United States, President Obama has been working on bringing new job plans into action. Obama feels the economy is failing because a decent amount of the population is jobless. Families are struggling to survive, and many families are homeless. As a result in trying to bring more jobs to the people, Obama wants to bring up more construction jobs. This is because he also wants to improve infrastructure.
Just as Obama wants to improve the economy such as improving infrastructure, The Transcontinental Railroad was also and an improvement in the economy as well as a bus load of jobs for many people. Not only did building this railroad improve the economy, it also help many families. Also, the same way Obama is trying to come up with plans to benefit citizens of the United States back in history homesteader were also benefited by a plan called the Homesteaders Act. Just as it was back then in that creating new jobs was a necessity, it is today for many citizen of the United States.
I really liked how you constantly linked back current events to past events, not just once or twice. It made the summary flow very well.
DeleteThanks! I was thinking of ways to connect it using more details and more ideas not just one or two.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/02/worldbank-kim-poverty-idUSL2N0CP0V020130402
During the Gilded Age and Progressive age, the nation suffered from great poverty. Poverty from city slums gathering up diseases and illnesses that could have been prevented. During the Gilded Age, wealth was in power and poverty was covered up by the wealth that the nation was receiving. In that era it was known for being the richest, but the Gilded Age is sugar coated. Not everything was revealed back then, you could see poverty but that got covered up with riches. Then the progressive age came and that was an era where people wanted to change the nation’s poverty and expose the bad side. There were people exposing companies and the dirt underneath the gilded age is released.
Now we are in the year 2013 and dealing with extreme poverty nationwide, President Barrack Obama assigned Jim Yong Kim to this project to reduce world poverty for the people who live off $1.25. This organization is called the World Bank and they are trying to help the people who need more help with receiving money. Although President Barrack Obama said it is difficult, but also achievable through hard work. About 1.2 billion live off $1.25 in 2005. They are ensuring a greater need for women and children to have an opportunity for an education and health. Jim Yong Kim plans to end extreme poverty by 2030.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/04/04/will-mobile-break-googles-search-monopoly
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/381031/microsoft-bemoans-googles-mobile-monopoly
Google is being accused of monopolizing the market on Android technology smart phones with pre-downloaded apps that come with the phone. If the Android makers want to include Google owned must-have apps like YouTube and Google Maps they have to have several Google apps preloaded in prominent places by default. Google is also offering the OS at such a low price that other companies can’t compete with. Monopolies and monopolistic tactics like this could be troublesome for Google as they are not legal.
Recently in class we have been talking about tycoons and their monopolies. Google’s monopolistic techniques are similar to that of Rockefeller. He was able to put such low prices on the oil his company produced that other oil companies had a hard time competing with it and were either driven out of business or bought by Standard Oil. Both Standard Oil and Google are driving out their competition with low prices to secure a monopoly, however in Google’s case it’s no longer legal. There is now a very public enforcement of anti-monopolistic laws in the current U.S. legal system that did not exist during the time of Rockefeller’s Standard Oil.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/04/11/unemployment-claims-weekly/2073379/
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http://news.medill.northwestern.edu/chicago/news.aspx?id=220079
Unemployment in the U.S has been a big topic of discussion over the past couple of years. More and More people are losing their jobs and are having to resort to welfare and food stamps and other things like that. Although recently, the unemployment rate has dropped to a new low and less people are filing for unemployment benefits. The department of Labor estimated that the number of people filing for unemployment benefits has decreased by 42,000 people. It's still not a lot though compared to the amount of unemployed people in the U.S currently.
This can be connected to the employment during the Gilded Age. Big business was booming everywhere during this time. Industry was taking off and large companies were hiring a lot of people. Of course there were still some people who were poor because they got laid off from a job or they were trying to start a new business and the tycoons in that same industry forced them to sell their it to them and as well as many other reasons. Overall though, employment was pretty plentiful and the economy was at one of its most stable points in history.
http://www.nj.com/times-opinion/index.ssf/2013/04/opinion_americas_core_problems.html
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http://billmoyers.com/content/slideshow-poverty-in-todays-america/
The poverty and economy in America is at an all-time low, and it hasn't been this bad since The Great Depression of the 1930s. People have been trying futilely to reveal this to the public, and numerous charities have been held, laws passed to help those struggling in our country. Americans offer support to those struggling to make a living; help comes in the form of shelters, food stamps, unemployment checks, and loans. Still, it is made clear that America's core problem is the ever-growing poverty levels.
This reminded me of the poverty levels and the poor living conditions of the lower class during the early 1900s, some of it even leading up to the Great Depression in the 1930s, when the economy had last crashed and reached its rock bottom. As poverty increased in the 1900s, help began to come, not in food stamps or charities, but in other ways. Fire safety and building codes became mandatory for the tenements in which the poor lived. Settlement houses were developed for immigrants struggling to make a life in America.
Similar to what we are attempting to do now, the economy had managed to heal itself after the Great Depression, and America resolved its problems and moved towards a brighter future. That's what we're trying to do now, solve the economy crises before we experience a crash like in the 1930s, and help those struggling in the lower class.
http://inplainsight.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/04/17088839-poverty-in-america-a-problem-hidden-in-plain-sight?lite
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http://www.irp.wisc.edu/faqs/faq1.htm
Poverty in the United States has been one of the more concerning problems at the moment. According to NBC news, there are 46 million Americans living below the poverty line. This also includes 16 million children. The nation has been working on a solution to help reduce these numbers greatly over the past years. Currently, President Obama has been saying that it will take everyone working together to overcome poverty all throughout the country.
Poverty has existed and followed us all through America’s past. During the growth of American cities, poverty was at a new high. Many poor people saw more opportunity for them in cities, but when they arrived they remained poor. Many were unemployed or had a low paying job, and as a result were living in very dirty and unclean living conditions. To help solve this growing issue, Christians saw it their duty to step up and help the less fortunate. Community centers and settlement houses were set into place to help those who were struggling. Like today, many were working towards a solution to reduce poverty.
•http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/budget/news/2013/01/08/49137/the-deficit-reduction-we-have-achieved-so-far/
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•http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/01/us-government-increases-national-debtand-keeps-128-million-people-on-government-programs
In the United States today the American Deficit and the National Debt has been one of the biggest issues. As of now our debt stands at a staggering 16 trillion dollars and is rising constantly. The American Deficit is the act of spending money that we don’t have. For every dollar that the United States pay 40 cents of that dollar is borrowed. Also there are more than 41% of people on a federal government program; this has gone up drastically from the year 2000 to the year 2011. The national debt will continue to rise higher if we keep spending irresponsible.
This is related to class, because with the boom of the big business and monopolies that were being established, they needed more money from the government to keep their business. Also with the monopolies taking over the smaller business there was a lot of unemployment. And with that many people could have been on federal government programs to help them with money and other necessary things needed to live. This increased the American deficit and followed by the national debt as well.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/04/25/more_than_1_billion_people_are_hungry_in_the_world
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http://www.augie.edu/news/2011-09/world-hunger-and-poverty-named-2011-12-international-theme
World poverty is a huge problem that not only America but the entire world is facing. More than 1 billion people worldwide are facing hardships due to poverty and world hunger. Slums still exist in the world and thousands of kids go to sleep hungry everyday. The economy is affecting many poor people in negative ways. Many families are struggling for all the basic necessities to survive. Food, shelter, and clothes are a struggle for many families. Parents are struggling to give their children proper education because they just can't afford it. A solution to this problem has finally been found and it is to seek International Food Aid. Administration is proposing that the government buys food in developing countries instead of shipping food from American farmers and then shipping it abroad. This way it will take less longer for the food to get to families.
This connects to what we are learning in class in that poverty was a huge issue back then as well. Also, just as different campaigns are being set up to help the families back then tycoons donated and organized charities to raise money. Just as slums existed back the, they still exist now.
http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/21-statistics-about-the-explosive-growth-of-poverty-in-america-that-everyone-should-know
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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/03/14/293549/poverty-fueling-gun-violence-across-us/
Each of these articles are from April, 2013 and they all talk about the high amounts of poverty in the United States. The first article has some random facts about poverty. Some of these facts include: one in every six Americans are now living in poverty, more than a million public school students in the United States are homeless, the number of Americans on food stamps now exceeds the entire population of Spain, and that 2.8 million children living in the United States are living on $2.00 a day or less. The second article mentions how congress is not doing anything about America’s poverty. Even though our poverty rate is at a high of 15% it is still ignored in congress. It’s not that congress is not able to do anything to fix it, because they most certainly could. Instead they choose to do nothing about it. The final article talks about how crime and violence in the United States could be triggered by poverty. It states that gangs and violence are tied with poor people, not the rich.
All of this information about our countries poverty can be related to the time periods that we are learning about in class. We can relate it to living conditions of the poor during the Progressive Era. During this era poor people were living in tenements, children had to work in order to support the family, there was filth in the streets, and many more horrible situations. So, in all, America has always had poor people, and if congress does nothing about it, it will always be this way.