Causes Associated with the Unemployment Problems in the US
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Dan Walker, a married father of three living in a small town of Michigan has been unemployed for about 8 months. With the holidays coming up he needs the money to support his family, but he can’t find a job. The unemployment rate is getting out of control. The bad part is no one is doing anything about it! The country is going through rough times as it is the last thing that these people need is losing or not having a job. It’s pretty bad when people who graduated college and got their diploma can’t find or lose their jobs. “Ylan Q. Mui and Amrita Jayakumar, September 06, 2013” Nearly 90 million people are now considered out of the labor force, up 1.7 million from August 2012. The unemployment is getting worse and the government needs to step in and do more. This paper will examine the causes associated with the unemployment problems as well as the debt, and the potential solutions such as the government creating more jobs and slow down the spending. In the second will generally discuss the unemployment problems and solutions, and the third paragraph will discuss the debt issues and what needs to happen to fix it.
“Serafini, Marilyn Werber, national journal, 09-29-2001”. In the article “As more jobs vanish, the worries mount”, it states Unemployment experts and health care analysts are concerned that for the nations safety net to cope with what may be millions of laid-off and uninsured people. This is basically saying that they are worried for the country on how it will handle the millions being laid off. Will it be like the great depression all over again? That’s what people are worried about. The bad part is the government doesn’t seem to be doing anything about the problem. They are the only way out of this mess, and they aren’...
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...try owes other countries like China so much money and it only just rising. The government needs to stop borrowing money and just put the money that the people give them towards the debt, and unemployment. It isn’t a complicated task for them to do either. All they have to do is to start new and break all of their bad habits. The people need to take a stand and show what they want and get their jobs back, and spend their money on what they want!
Works Cited
http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-09-06/business/41816402_1_labor-force-labor-department-job-market http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-wants-borrow-24-trillion-roughly-what-we-borrowed-during-wwii_577147.html Articles:
“Sanford, Mark, Obama’s Current Path Leads to Epic Financial Ruin, 02-02-2009”
“Serafini, Marilyn Werber, national journal, 09-29-2001”
“How to Keep Workers Unemployed, 12-09-13”
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