William Jefferson Clinton also known as “Bill” Clinton, serving as the 42nd President of the United States from January 20, 1993 to January 19, 2001. Who I believe including his faults, was still an amazing president. During his presidency Clinton had the US enjoyed the lowest unemployment and inflation rates in recent history, high home ownership, low crime rates, and a low budget surplus. They also gave him credit for eliminating the federal deficit and reforming welfare, despite being forced to deal with a Republican-controlled Congress. (Clinton, et al.)
The lowest unemployment happened in 1992, when Bill Clinton was elected the President of the United States. The American economy was just barely creating jobs, wages were very low, and the unemployment rate was a low 7.5 percent. His bold, three-part economic tactics focused on three objectives: spending discipline, investing in the U.S education, health care everyone could use, advance farther with science and technology, and opening foreign markets to expand trade. Today�s job release provides more evidence that this tactics is working efficiently. (House, 2000)
America’s families and the communities faced serious problems with crime happening in 1992. The most violent crimes were reported at high rates in 1992 than ever before, with murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults has reached almost to two million occurrences in the United States. Gun crime had reached to the highest point in 20 years with total gun crimes reported at nearly half of a million. Parents fighting the daily battle to keep their children away from the drugs, gangs, and drinking, younger people than ever were involved in violent crimes. In 1992 alone, more than 850,000 children were victim’s ...
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...leaders refused to provide legislative support, it was one of Bill Clinton's brightest moments of his very own presidency. (Virginia)
The President's success will undoubtedly historic in history, as the administration helped end the conflict that had threatened the security of Europe. As there is always a downside, the failure to act in Rwanda, is a large aspect in the future historic evaluation for years to come. Clinton's overall management with the “post-Cold War” environment was certainly endured a great scrutiny from many people. (Virginia)
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http://clinton.procon.org/#Background http://clinton4.nara.gov/WH/New/html/20000112_1.html http://clinton5.nara.gov/WH/Accomplishments/eightyears-06.html http://millercenter.org/president/clinton/essays/biography/9 (Virginia)
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(House, The Clinton Presidency)
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Clinton has also worked for lower unemployment rates. During the first two years of Clinton's administration, 6 million jobs were created; 7.7 million during the first 34 months. Americorps, formed to help people pay for college and job training, helped to tutor students, immunize children, and restore urban parks. Clinton's Northwest Forest Plan was contrived to provide jobs in the Northwest and preserve ancient forests at the same time. Since Clinton became president, the unemployment rate has decreased from 7% to 5.6% and the United States currently has its lowest combined rate of inflation and unemployment since the beginning of Nixon's Administration in 1968. Clinton has also continued several programs that were pioneered by Roosevelt, such as Social Security and Bank Security. Clinton's Social Security Independent Agency Act, Interstate Banking Bill, and the Community Development Banking Financial Institutions Act's roots can be traced back to Roosevelt's Social Security Act of 1935 and Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act. Both Clinton and Roosevelt also advocated the rights of workers. Roosevelt secured the unions' right to form and to bargain with a representative of their choice with his National Labor Relations Act, and created a minimum wage, maximum hours, and limited the ages of young workers with his Fair Labor Standards Act.
A key to victory this November is the unemployment rate. According to a Bloomberg National Poll conducted in March 8-11, 42% of Americans consider unemployment and jobs as “the most important issue facing the country right now” (Priorities). Although there has been 24 consecutive months of private sector employment growth, the Federal Reserve suggests that the numbers could fade in the coming months. The importance of creating more jobs cannot be stressed enough. No President in the recent era has been reelected with the unemployment rate above 7.2% (Roth). To paint a picture, in late 1982, the unemployment rate topped 10.8 under Ronald Reagan. However, about 36 months later, the rate dropped to 7.2% percent. The drastic drop in the n...
Clinton’s presidency is remembered as one of the most successful of the 20th century; not only for his enormous domestic accomplishments and foreign-policy achievements,but also for creating a stronger nation at the beginning of a new century (PBS).
Burglaries, robberies, and shootings, all of which may leave victims or innocent bystanders severely hurt or dead, are now frequent enough to concern all urban and many suburban residents. Living in a dangerous environment places young people at risk of falling victim to such malicious and aggressive behavior observed and learned from others. Social institution such as education, family, religion, peer groups, etc., play a major role in the influence of crime in the urban neighborhoods that Anderson describes. As said in the essay, "although almost everyone in poor inner-...
Ronald Regan should be the person of the decade. He was able to get America out of another recession. He was also able to ease the tensions between the United States and the USSR. During his presidency he initiated multiple projects to keep main land America safe from the threat of nuclear disaster many of which are still in effect today.
The US went from having the largest budget deficit in American history ($290 billion) in 1992 when Clinton was elected to having a budget surplus of $127 billion when he left office in 2001. 22.5 million new jobs were created and unemployment dropped from 7.5% when Clinton took office to 4.0% by the end of his second term, the lowest i...
All this sounds like an abstract from some of today's action movies, but sadly enough, all these events are true and have plagued our nation for the past eighteen months. Not only have juvenile crime rates gone up in the past few years, but a heightened awareness of these crimes exists because of how violent natured these crimes have become. "Homicides committed by juveniles with firearms have tripled in number since 1983" (Jenson and Howard 324).
"Anybody living in the United States in the early 1990s and paying even a whisper of attention to the nightly news or a daily paper could be forgiven for having been scared out of his skin... The culprit was crime. It had been rising relentlessly - a graph plotting the crime rate in any American city over recent decades looked like a ski slope in profile... Death by gunfire, intentional and otherwise, had become commonplace, So too had carjacking and crack dealing, robbery, and rape. Violent crime was a gruesome and constant companion...
Violence is defined as the intentional use of force to harm a human being. Its outcome is injury (whether physical or psychological, fatal or nonfatal). Violence among teenagers is on the rise, and has been since the early 1980's. In my opinion this is due to the increase of violence in the media, the astounding availability of firearms and the lack of proper guidance in the home. Northeastern University's College of Criminal Justice reports that from 1985 to 1993 murders committed by people over the age of 25 dropped an impressive 20%; meanwhile they increased 65% for people between the ages of 18-24 and an astounding 165% growth for teenagers 14 to 17. According to the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, in 1996, 6548 young people 15-24 years old were victims of homicides. This amounts to an average of 18 youth homicides per day in the US. It also states that homicide is the second leading cause of death for persons 15-24 and is the leading cause of death for African-American and Hispanic youths in this age group. There are a few things that we as Americans can do to stunt this problem, and it starts with the home. By focusing on the home first, we as Americans can drastically reduce the amount of violent crime committed in the US.
"Children, Youth, and Gun Violence: Analysis." Princeton. The Future of Children, n.d. Web. 27 Jan. 2014. .
Over the past half century, violence in the United States has increased dramatically. Children who were raised in a tough, low-income neighborhood often fail to escape exposure to violence. They may witness homicides, assaults, and some may even have had a friend who had been killed. According to recent research, these children have higher violence rates than those kids who grew up in a non-violent neighborhood.
The twentieth century was a time of many political assassinations and violent shootings. A nation in shock mourned the deaths of President John Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. At the end of the twentieth century the nation endured rising rates of violent crime, with young people frequently involved as victims and perpetrators and often armed with guns. Between July 1992, and June 30, 1999, there were 358 school-associated violent deaths in the United States, including 255 deaths of school- aged children, or about 51 such violent deaths each year. (Schmitt rot, 2003)
These moments of instability and total breakdown of marriages and relationships become a learned behavior by the children and the cycle repeats itself in adulthood, as they engage in their personal relationships. As the institution of marriage and the family become more fragmented from generation to generation, life in America for children is not as good as we would like to believe. In the article written by Stephanie Coontz “The Way We Never Were: Introduction” is she mentions certain disturbing statistics involving the neglect towards children in America. For example Coontz notes Americas neglect to properly vaccinate children according to statistics our nations “children age two and under is worse than only two Western hemisphere nations, Bolivia and Haiti.” Considering the fact that America has more violence per capita than other established Western nations, this considerable exposure to violent acts has desensitized children leading them to become violent. Examining exposure to violence at a young age shows itself w in our life only and will you will you and you hen the children become adolescents as statistics have shown that “homicide involving American teens have seen a 12% increase in violent crimes in 1984 to 1980.” American teens also have seen an increase in teen
You can’t turn on the television, or read the paper without hearing about violence in our cities and world. In a report from “Stand Up for Kids” in Chicago, they analyze the relationship between low wages, income inequality, and the epidemic of violence in Chicago’s low income neighborhoods. This report found that in 2012 there were nearly 7,700 gun-related crimes reported in the city. The city of Chicago has the third highest overall metropolitan poverty rate in the nation. Nearly one quarter of all Chicago residents live below the federal poverty threshold according to this report. ("Chicago Not Only Leads the Nation in Gun Violence Rates, but Also in Measures of Urban Poverty." Stand Up Chicago, 1 Feb. 2013. Web. 7 Oct. 2014.) Decades of research have demonstrated that there is a statistically significant link between low wages, income inequality and crime. The analysis presented in this report shows that when a city’s economic conditions improve, the violent crime rates go down.( "Chicago Not Only Leads the Nation in Gun Violence Rates, but Also in Measures of Urban Poverty." Stand Up Chicago, 1 Feb. 2013. Web. 7 Oct. 2014.) Parents and children are turning to violent acts to provide for their family needs. Policy makers and the government need to address the issues of persistent poverty and income inequality such as raising the minimum wage to a living wage and create satisfying jobs for the
From 1991-2000, statistically there was a dramatic decline in crime nationally. The statistics studied were of all categories of crimes considered serious, including: homicides which decreased by 39%; rape which decreased by 41%; robbery which decreased by 44%; aggravated assault which decreased by 24%; burglary which decreased by 41%; auto theft which decreased by 37%; and larceny which decreased by 23%. The statistics show a range of decline of 23-44%! (United States Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation 1990, 2000. Uniform Crime Report. Washington, D.C.) The evidence indicates that the benefit of declining crime rates are concentrated on specific groups with...