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million recipients of welfare, 10.2 million are receiving unemployment insurance. (Statistic Brain) This number doesn’t even include all unemployed recipients of welfare, just the ones receiving insurance. According to a recent report from the Cato Institute, the federal government spends $668 million dollars annually on 126 different welfare programs, while spending from state and local governments push that number up to around $1 trillion annually. If we were able to require more from the…

If taxes are included you will be getting even less money. There is no way that someone can live comfortable under these conditions. The argument that is often used to say why the minimum wage should stay at $7.25 an hour is that according to Cato Institute “In the previous federal minimum wage increase from $5.15 to $7.25, only 15 percent of the workers who were expected to gain from it lived in poor households. If the minimum wage were today raised to $9.50, only 11 percent of workers who…

one of the three million refugees to the United States since 1980 has committed a lethal act of terror on American soil.” Miliband uses logos to support the refugees and to show that not every refugee is a terrorist. According to Miliband, “The Cato Institute has calculated that a United States resident has a 1 in 3.64 chance of being killed by a refugee.” Americans are turning their back to see the crimes that are committed by their own people and blaming them on…

Rodtavious Welch 8 Grade English Mrs.King April 26, 2016 Drinking Should be Illegal Do you want to know why drinking should be illegal because people get killed every year from drinking. Drinking kills Drinking too much can harm your health. Excessive alcohol use led to approximately 88,000 deaths and 2.5 million years of potential life lost each year in the United States from 2006 – 2010, shortening the lives of those who died by an average of 30 years. If you don’t think…

In recent weeks, there has been an upsurge in controversy over crime committed by immigrants, sparked by a recent murder in San Francisco, and by presidential candidate Donald Trump’s exploitation of the issue. But as conservative commentator Linda Chavez points out, immigrants – both legal and illegal – have far lower crime rates than native-born Americans do. Even if they did not, it does not follow that immigration restrictions and deportation are the right solution to the problem. Numerous…

Us government Ms.Crouse Victoria Liu 5/8/2017 Supreme Court case The case Nixon, Attorney General of Missouri, et al. V. Shrink Missouri Government PAC et al. was argued on the 5th of October, 1999. The respondents, Shrink Missouri PAC as a political action committee and Zev David Fredman who was a candidate for Missouri state auditor eyeing the 1998 Republican Party nominations alleged in a suit they filed that a statute in Missouri…

For many years, women have been fighting to make sure women and men earn the same pay for the same work. As a woman myself I am faced with this issue as I enter into my career field. When working in a male dominated industry wage discrimination can be an issue. In 2018, women should not have to fight for women’s equal pay within the workplace at the current moment. For over fifty years, women have been fight for equal rights, since women have been granted the right to vote. Women’s issue with…

Sports Facilities & Government Funding is something that is helpful for only owners, teams, and state governments when basic services is left out with not many things. Government funding leaves basic services with nothing. The government is really not being fair to the people who make the stadiums for the owners, team (players), and fans. Subsidized venues should get all of the credit for their help and support for stadiums, owners, and players. Creating facilities for privately owned sports…

To begin with, although it is not pinpoint exact, however it is believed that the life on earth was evolved about 3.7 billion years ago. But, the first ancestors of humans started walking on their feet solely for the purpose of hunting and gathering food for themselves only four million years ago. Since humans first started walking for hunting and gathering million years ago up to the time when we have reached the moon represents the fact that we are always in a chase, a chase for the best that…

illegal immigrants. It would increase the demand for workers with skills as it reduces competition in low skilled workers. Increase minimum wage won’t reduce the poverty levels, especially when a reported 63.5 percent of poor Americans don’t work (CATO). Lastly another counter attack is that federal minimum wage is made by entry level employees, that most likely will not earn the same wage for an extended period of…