2. Which of the statistics listed in #1 affects you personally and how? Obesity-related medical conditions cost our nation nearly $150 billion every year and account for 16 to 18 percent of our total healthcare costs. This effects me because if people would just eat healthier than the money can go into schools and pay for cops, firefighters, and teachers. 3.Suggest ways that our society as a whole could reverse or improve the statistic in a positive way for each of the statistics listed in #1.
Case Study Argument Essay Birthright Citizenship is Draining Our Country Illegal immigration has been a huge financial problem for the United States for many years. It costs millions of dollars to catch, process, and deport the thousands of illegal immigrants that are apprehended, and they are only a small percentage of over 11 million illegals living in the U.S. (Birthright). Children born in the United States have automatic citizenship, even if the parents are here illegally. Birthright citizenship encourages illegal immigration by granting citizenship to “anchor babies”, legitimizing illegal immigrant’s presence, and making deportation less likely. Many pregnant illegal women count on state funded healthcare to receive prenatal care.
To go along with the 4,400 Americans that wont be coming home to their families, there were over 32,000 Americans wounded in this war. So was this $4 trillion dollar war really wort our time and the lives it cost us? I say no, I feel we spent far too long helping a country that wanted nothing but for us to leave their country for years. We have cost too many lives, and have changed too many lives with injuries to justify a war where we simply just pull out. The results did not justify the losses America took, including how negative our image has become over the years, the financial hole we dug ourselves into, and the way we've affected Americans for the
In this cut throat and disproportioned world, we see imbalance like no other time in history. Children are starving, while athletes play a sport they love and get paid fortunes to do it. We live in a world where people drive 13 cars to where people can’t afford shoes to walk miles every day just to get water for their family to live. Once a symbol of international pride and the love of fair play, sport brought countries out of war to come together to test their skill ("United nations," 2008). Now it is a get rich scheme where the rich get rich and the poor will stay poor.
The government is allowing immigrants to enter the country with less than satisfactory education skills. Nearly 31 percent of foreign born residents over the age of twenty-five are without a high school diploma, compared to just 10 percent of native-born residents. Immigrants trail behind natives in college attendance. It wouldn’t make sense to grant permanent legal status and full job market to millions of unskilled immigrants. Journalist Sonia Nazario states, “Those harderst hit by the influx of immigrants are disadvantaged native-born minorities who don’t have a high school degree”(536).
In her article “Food Stamps Should Be Expanded”, Linda Bopp states “More than 25 million Americans, including at least 13 million children, are not able to meet the most fundamental of human needs.” How can 25 million people go without food when America is one of the wealthiest and developed nations in the world? Over half of those Americans are children. We should be ashamed to allow our neighbors to suffer. Food stamps provide
The problem with starving people in America is that, first of all people are starving. Then you have people who might die from not getting enough food. If homeless people have kids then it makes babies not get the nutrition that they should be getting. It just spreads all over tell about half of Americas population will be homeless or starving. No one should ever have to live through that, ever.
Foster care is unfavorable to American society, because “according to national statistic 40 to 50 percent of those children will never complete high school. Sixty-six percent of them will be homeless, go to jail or die within one year of leaving the foster care system at 18.” “80 percent of the prison population once was in foster care, and that girls in foster care are 600 percent more likely than the general population to become pregnant before the age of 21.” BRITTANY NUNN (2012), author of Statistics Suggest Bleak Futures for Children Who Grow up in the Foster Care
Also around half of these people have disabilities that prevent them from working. It surprises me to find out almost 100% of welfare recipients are women versus the rest of the poverty society including some old aged veterans who aren’t receiving support. A person who sacrificed their life for their country should be getting aid by all circumstances. Another disappointing statistic I found interesting was that if you “qualify” for benefits, the low average pay per month was $350 from the government. Few recipients manage to obtain a bigger amount to support their families which I believe is totally unfair and immoral.
The Issue of Poverty and Hunger By: Nolan Kibit Lit III 2nd Hour One in seven people die of hunger, and 2.2 million children die each year because they are not immunized .Many people do not know how large of an effect poverty has on the health crisis that we face. Poverty is an important global issue because it plays a role in the estimated one billion people who lack access to health care systems. Health issues are a main concern for countries with high poverty populations. Poverty effects the way we act and live, and our health effects the way that we behave in the real world. Poverty effects our health in many ways including mental health and diseases, access to vaccinations, malnutrition, and attaining adequate healthcare.