Center for American Progress

2001, at 8:45 a.m. on an unmistakable Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 stacked with 20,000 gallons of stream fuel collided with the north pinnacle of the World Trade Center in New York City. The effect left a vast, consuming gap close to the 80th floor of the 110-story high rise, immediately slaughtering several individuals and catching hundreds more in higher floors. As the clearing of the pinnacle and its twin got in progress, TV cameras communicated live pictures of what at…

Great Depression was one of the most dreadful era in American history. The nation’s downfall, caused by a series of economic catastrophes and environmental misfortunes, resulted severe nationwide poverty and unemployment. Fortunately, President Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945) introduced the New Deal and established relief agencies to alleviate the disasters the country was facing. One of the largest relief program in the New Deal was the Works Progress Administration (WPA) which generated the New…

increased immigration would even stimulate the economy. According to American Immigration Council, a deportation-only policy would result in a $2.6 trillion lost in GDP over the course of decade. In contrast, if an immigration reform included a legalization process for the undocumented, an additional…

national poll issued by the Episcopal Church has found that 98 percent off all Americans feel that there is at least some discrimination in the United States today. In addition, African-Americans are three times as likely as whites to feel there is a “great deal” of discrimination (Episcopal Church). Many blacks are discriminated for simply the color of their skin and being African American. Countless African Americans find it hard to obtain housing without being discriminated for it. Although…

Michael Klarman explores how racial equality has impacted America and then reveals that less progress has been made than society realizes. Klarman suggests social and political factors have shaped the racial progress; he targets court decisions in particularly in the process. The court decisions that are handed down tend to reflect the society morals of the time it occurs. Even when decisions are in favor of the minorities, the results are hardly enforced he concedes. Klarman then concludes the…

Martin Luther King Jr. learned nonviolence movements through Gandhi and use the Kingian model for social action outlined in the “Six Steps for Nonviolent Social Change” (The King Center). The first of six nonviolent principles established by Dr. King was “Nonviolence is a way of life for courageous people” (The King Center). Nonviolence is believed to be a moral virtue that goes against human nature to be aggressive and defensive. Martin Luther King Jr. presented himself as a peacemaker; he…

Study” by Judith Sealander and Dorothy Smith, analyzes the growth and decline of feminist organizations in the 70s. A variety of organizations were born at the beginning of 1970 and others emerged after the establishment of Dayton Women’s Liberation. Centers were provided so that women could discuss issues in the workplace and provide advice for them. This was successful for the moment, but it took a downturn once members and leaders stopped taking an interest in their movement and the…

It's been very hard for the LGBTQ youth to come out in the past few decades as many fear being rejected by their families and loved ones, but the ones who do have the courage to come out end up being homeless, that is not the case for every person that comes out, but a recent study shows that 40 percent of youth homelessness cases are caused by teen's coming out to their families. What does the Government do about this? What can we as individuals do about this issue? Half of the LGBTQ…

This is a fact of the past especially now in the 21st century where everything revolves around what level of education you have attained. One fact that was caught my eye in the National Progress on Improving High School Graduation Rates was that poverty rates are at least seven percent lower when one has a high school diploma in contrast to a person who doesn’t. This is a huge disparity between the two people that cannot be ignored. The…

of Oregon who passes Oregon’s assessments, could fail the standards of Massachusetts. Thus this led to the creation of the Common Core State Standards in 2009 by the Council of Chief state school Officers and the National Governors Association. The Center for Public Education defines CCSS’s main goal as making students career and college ready.…