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    The Department of Labor is a cabinet-level department of the United States federal government headed by the Secretary of Labor, a person chosen by the President to run this specific department. The Department officially achieved department level status on March 4th, 1913 as it was signed by President William Howard Taft. Initially, it had a staff of 2,000 people and a budget of $2.33 Million. The department currently has 17,450 employees with a budget of $12.1 Billion and the current secretary…

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    worldwide attention. Unfortunately, this focus has been primarily due to the more obvious violation of the fundamental rights of women. Leadership roles such as: Business, Politics, and in the home need to be addressed within the United States. In past years, the United States has made on-going progress towards women’s equality and empowerment in various aspects of society especially in employment and education. However, there are issues that we still need to address. For example; in many…

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    Canada's Fur Trade Issues

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    poaching is increasing which hurts Canada’s wildlife. Every single country deals with international trade, which is a good thing, until problems within international trade emerges. Some problems with international trade includes, “… sweatshops, child labor, trade deficits, the euro, sanctions, tariffs, embargoes…” (“Issues of International…

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    NAFTA Issues

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    The trade agreement between Canada, the United States and Mexico has been established in 1994 (NAFTA). The intention of the trade agreement is to eliminate tariffs and trade barriers between the three countries. After 24 years, the conditions of the trade agreement are on the table to in hopes modernize the deal. According to Jean-Francois Perrault, chief economist at Scotiabank, says that updating NAFTA was part of Trump’s election strategy (Abedi). Trump called NAFTA the “worst trade deal” in…

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    condition of labor. European-born immigrants have their own demography, naturalization and working style. A number of European–born immigrants are diminishing gradually in the United States over the past 50 years;…

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    Human Trafficking Effects

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    Every year, between 600,000 and 800,000 people, eighty percent being women and children, are victims of human trafficking. The United Nations defines human trafficking as ”the recruitment, transport and receipt of people across borders by improper means for an improper purpose, such as forced labor or sexual exploitation." Human trafficking generates about 32 billion dollars each year and is the third largest source of illegal trade, behind guns and narcotics. Human trafficking has a traumatic…

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    benefits, and responsibilities if being a vital part of the United States of America. When it comes to the economics of Puerto Rico, the option of statehood has many pros. The most important is that the government of Puerto Rico will receive taxes from their citizens to help the infrastructure of the state. Puerto Rico would also benefit from the ability to hold an open market trade with any nation that is in agreement with the United States. This would open more jobs and would help to…

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    The United States has resettled millions of refugees from all over the world, but all too often its humanitarian yearning has been obstructed by paranoia and fear. An estimated 3.7 million Syrian children have been born since the conflict began five years ago, their lives all shaped by violence, terror and displacement. With nowhere to go, they reside in refugee camps, praying for the day to come when they can escape the horrifying warzone. Sadly, however, due to the recent terrorist attacks led…

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    Industrial Revolution Dbq

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    In 1790, the country of the United States was mostly rural, about 95%. That means that only 5% of people lived in a town of 2,500 or more. There were a few large cities in the United States some were, New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. The south was almost all rural expect for a few small cities like New Orleans. By the 1880 the industrial revolution had sparked a rapid grow in cities because of people looking for work. Cities became crowded and the realtors ripped off those who had no other…

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    In the United States the federal government makes the final decision when it comes to the major political problems of our day. Their word is the law, and most of the time it has the desired effect of extinguishing the problems on a nationwide scale. While this has worked many times in the past, it has never worked and continues to fail when dealing with the national education. Students and their educational needs simply span too broad of a spectrum for the federal government to satisfy each…

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