Tag Archives: inequality
The Syrian Crisis
You are living in a tent. You have just enough food and water to keep you and your family members alive. Around you, people are dying every day because they don’t have access to medicine or physicians. Your living conditions are cramped, even shoulder to shoulder at times. Privacy is something accessible only in your […]
Read moreIncome Inequality
Income inequality has become an election issue for the 2016 presidential election, thanks to Democratic hopefuls like Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. While it is extremely difficult to believe that these mainstream politicians really take income inequality seriously, (Hillary Clinton, for example, is a multimillionaire who has already increased her personal wealth by tens of […]
Read moreOutsourced at Home
On April 1st, the government began accepting applications for a special kind of immigrant visa, the H-1B visa. Every year, the government issues 85,000 of these visas to highly skilled foreign workers. These visas are intended to help American companies fill highly technical positions that they have not been able to find qualified American workers […]
Read morePolitical Dynasties
There is a very good chance that the 2016 Presidential Election ballot will look identical to the 1992 Presidential ballot. While right now, more than a year from the election, it is too early to say for certain who the nominees of the two mainstream parties will be, it seems likely that voters on November […]
Read moreUn-American Activities
Following the financial crisis in 2008, the crisis that some called the second Great Depression, many pundits predicted that there would be new restrictions placed on the financial industry to prevent Wall Street from running our economy into the ground again. After all, with Congress’s repeal of the Glass-Steagal Act in 1999 under President Clinton, […]
Read moreFiscal Priorities
Charity begins at home! It seems that the attorneys and career politicians in Washington have forgotten this simple truth. America gives away tens of billions of dollars in foreign aid every single year, with most of this money being invested in countries where the citizens hate America and would treasure the opportunity to kill Americans […]
Read moreTuition Costs
More and more, we are being told that it is vitally important for young people coming into the work force to have a college degree if they want to be able to compete economically. However, the skyrocketing tuition costs of American colleges and universities are moving higher education farther and farther out of reach of […]
Read moreCosts of Outsourcing
Judging by how rarely we hear about it these days, worrying about outsourcing seems to have gone out of fashion. Of course, there is a new crisis every week in America these days, and with massive riots, ISIS, and Ebola constantly dominating the headlines, it can be easy to forget the fundamental issues that have […]
Read moreWar on the Middle Class
Earlier this year, the New York Times broke some news that was difficult for many of us to swallow. For the first time since we began tracking such things, the American middle class lost its status as the world’s wealthiest and most well off. Many measures of our economy, such as growth in Gross Domestic […]
Read moreVoter Turnout
This week’s midterm elections were significant for several reasons. Voters throughout the country passed a large number of important ballot initiatives and the Republican party has firmly taken charge of Congress. However, by far the most significant (and the most distressing) news story to come out of this election is that the voter turnout across […]
Read moreNonprofit Insurance
More and more, average Americans are struggling in their day to day lives. With the loss of good manufacturing jobs and Wall Street’s attack on working people, it is becoming increasingly difficult for many Americans to get by. In this environment, the insurance industry’s continued nickel and diming of the American people is becoming intolerable. […]
Read moreMedical Costs
The United States health care system is in a state of crisis, and every effort our government has made to improve things has only made it worse. The most recent effort, Obamacare, attempted to create conditions that would allow all Americans to have access to health insurance. Instead, it just drove up the cost that […]
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