Administration of federal assistance in the United States

marketplace seem to be unavoidable, and with Democratic President Barack Obama in office the government appears to be more present than ever before. In recent years, government has involved itself in several marketplace problems. Some decisions made by administration were popular, others have torn the two major parties even further apart. On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act, also know as Obamacare (“Key Features of the Affordable Care Act”). This law established…

people save for higher education for themselves, their children, or their own retirement, but in the instance where one is no longer working, loses a spouse, or is physically incapable of working, they can fall back onto their savings, or government assistance to help support them. However, when mass financial instability occurs in a country, it damages their economy greatly.…

Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defined marriage as the union of one woman and one man, and allowed states to ignore same-sex marriages granted in other states. This federal law stood until June 26, 2015 with the case Obergefell v. Hodges, where the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 stating that no state can deny a same-sex couple the right to marriage. The court’s official opinion states,”[t]he right of same-sex couples to marry is part of the liberty promised by the Fourteenth Amendment…

How far was the American empire similar to the British one? The United States of America in many ways aimed to distance themselves from their former colonial masters. The American Enlightenment had set forth the notion that the American colonists should form an entirely new nation built on the ideals of liberty, the rights of man, republicanism, and so forth. But America exhibited symptoms of imperialism - both hard imperialism and soft imperialism - in their growth and expansion west. Whilst…

Roosevelt had promised to help America overcome the depression, and so he presented the New Deal, programs that set precedent for federal government to support economic and social affairs of the nation. In 1935 it assured unions the right to organize and bargain collectively. The Social Security Act aided farmers and migrant workers (Franklin Delano Roosevelt 2.1). Financial aid in…

Education School Status and Improvement Report (2014), in the same year, 14.5 percent of students at Castle High School were in special ed. This is more than the highest percentage in the United States, New Jersey, which is placed at 11.6 percent. In 2013-2014, it increased to 15.4 percent. According to The Federal Education Budget Project (2014), This reflects the increasing number of students being placed into special education. They account for 13 percent of the total school population, a 3…

the economy in the United States gets worse and worse everyday more families are falling deeper into poverty. With more families not being able to live adequately in today’s society, (such as paying their bills and still having money leftover for other necessities), the question of every state raising their minimum wage to a living standard keeps coming up. But will raising the minimum wage reduce poverty or put more citizens out of jobs? Over the past few years, The United States keeps raising…

We want to believe that universal health care means “free”, but in order for individuals to get the medical care they warrant, the money must come from somewhere. The provincial and the federal levels (Canada Healthcare, 2004-2007, p.1) fund the health care system in Canada. The national health care expenditure can be different depending on which province or territories you are examining. The large companies, individual’s taxes, as well…

guillotine to hangings, shootings, and poisonings. It has been banned in numerous countries, but it has not yet been banned in the United States of America. The ban of the death penalty is not fully supported, since the U.S. federal government and 31 of the states still use the death penalty ("Facts about the Death Penalty"). The near future of criminal convictions in the United States depends on the decision on whether capital punishment should be retained or abolished. There is much…

The Great Depression was a long term economic event that the American people experienced from 1929-1945. Many people were unemployed and unable to gain any incomes to support their families, leaving many homeless. Prior to the Depression, Herbert Hoover was elected in 1928 when the economy was still enjoying the Roaring Twenties. Hoover believed in three things which included rugged individualism, voluntary cooperation, and that the economy would experience had natural cycles. Hoover introduced…