A major economic challenge facing America today would be is welfare system. Welfare was first made the job of the government during the Great Depression but ever since then, it has become a mismanaged economic burden in need of reform. One example of these welfare programs is Social Security, costing America 888 billion dollars a year and scheduled to use up its reserves by the year 2034, according to the Social Security Administration itself (United States. Board of Trustees…). Another program, Obamacare, is costly in a similar manner, placing a large tax burden on the middle class, while leaving doctors in the uncomfortable position of having to deal with patients who want the best healthcare and a government who wants to pay them as little
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Among the problems facing women are the disproportionate representation they have in politics when compared to men, and their substantially lower pay. While women make up a majority of the voters in America, they only have less than 20 percent of the seats in Congress (Cavanagh). As for their pay, nearly every job possible offers women lower pay than their male counterparts in the same field, and on average, a woman’s pay is 23 percent less than the wage of a man (Covert). Eleanor Roosevelt was a long-time supporter for women involvement in politics and just treatment. Those women who are concerned about the lack of their gender’s political representation should know that in her early years of activism, Eleanor joined the League of Women Voters, who wanted to get women more politically engaged and educated women on candidates ("First Lady Biography…”). In later years, she would criticize women as “insufficiently organized to support women in office and called for a popular movement to support and elect women” (Lenz). Today she would support those women candidates running for office, most likely offering them endorsements. As for the issues women face with pay, Eleanor lobbied for equal pay during WWII, when women were active in the work force, and again in April 1962, for her last Congressional testimony ("First Lady Biography…”). She would continue to pursue that cause as …show more content…
Eleanor Roosevelt was not blind to the mistreatment of African-Americans in her day and was known for standing up against it. When she saw that an organization she was part of, the Daughters of the American Revolution, refused to let the colored opera singer Marian Anderson sing at their hall, she publically resigned from the organization, and later called Anderson to perform at the Lincoln Memorial and for the King and Queen of England at the White House ("First Lady Biography…”). There are many other stories similar to that one, but Eleanor truly committed herself to civil rights when she joined the NAACP. Working alongside the organization, she would push anti-lynching legislation, though she would fail to get it due to her husband’s own political interest with the South ("Eleanor Roosevelt's Battle to End Lynching."). Today, though much progress has been made for the civil rights of African-Americans, she would probably stand alongside the Black Lives Matter protesters. She would see police brutality akin to lynching and push for legislation that would make police more
Among the problems facing women are the disproportionate representation they have in politics when compared to men, and their substantially lower pay. While women make up a majority of the voters in America, they only have less than 20 percent of the seats in Congress (Cavanagh). As for their pay, nearly every job possible offers women lower pay than their male counterparts in the same field, and on average, a woman’s pay is 23 percent less than the wage of a man (Covert). Eleanor Roosevelt was a long-time supporter for women involvement in politics and just treatment. Those women who are concerned about the lack of their gender’s political representation should know that in her early years of activism, Eleanor joined the League of Women Voters, who wanted to get women more politically engaged and educated women on candidates ("First Lady Biography…”). In later years, she would criticize women as “insufficiently organized to support women in office and called for a popular movement to support and elect women” (Lenz). Today she would support those women candidates running for office, most likely offering them endorsements. As for the issues women face with pay, Eleanor lobbied for equal pay during WWII, when women were active in the work force, and again in April 1962, for her last Congressional testimony ("First Lady Biography…”). She would continue to pursue that cause as …show more content…
Eleanor Roosevelt was not blind to the mistreatment of African-Americans in her day and was known for standing up against it. When she saw that an organization she was part of, the Daughters of the American Revolution, refused to let the colored opera singer Marian Anderson sing at their hall, she publically resigned from the organization, and later called Anderson to perform at the Lincoln Memorial and for the King and Queen of England at the White House ("First Lady Biography…”). There are many other stories similar to that one, but Eleanor truly committed herself to civil rights when she joined the NAACP. Working alongside the organization, she would push anti-lynching legislation, though she would fail to get it due to her husband’s own political interest with the South ("Eleanor Roosevelt's Battle to End Lynching."). Today, though much progress has been made for the civil rights of African-Americans, she would probably stand alongside the Black Lives Matter protesters. She would see police brutality akin to lynching and push for legislation that would make police more