Memo To: Kathleen McGarry, Economics Department Chair From: Daniel Shamooelian Date: January 12, 2015 Subject: Rising textbook prices and recommendations Over the past few years, textbook prices have been increasing at a rapid pace. Textbook prices have been rising faster than the price of clothing, food, cars, and even healthcare. Students have been complaining about the issue for years, yet prices just keep going up. Through this memo I will explain why textbook prices have risen dramatically over the past few years and give recommendations on how to lower these costs. Publishers claim their window of making money has drastically fallen due to the evolution of the used-textbook market and the internet.
Almost one-third of adults in the U.S. are obese, and more than two-thirds of adults are overweight. Obesity rates have increased by 214 percent between 1950 and 2000(Livestrong.com). Also According to livestrong.com, the main cause for the increase it weight among American’s is lack of exercise, as well as the convenience of fast food, and caloric increase. This rise in obesity has increased diseases such as heart disease, and type 2 diabetes. As a country, we are spending over $190 billion a year treating these diseases, diseases that could be prevented by increasing exercise and decreasing calories.
The New York Times claimed that, “When immigrants do take jobs, they’re hard workers” (Preston and Connelly a1). Therefore, it greatly contributes to America’s retirement system. The presence of immigrants also contributes to America’s long term population growth, necessary to stabilize the overall retirement fund. The Springer Science and Business Media’s journal states that some other countries in the world suffer from the labor shortages and a demographic crunch, in which a very small number of workers will be expected to pay the retirement and health care for elderly people (Gold 409). The ratio of retired people to workers is expected to dramatically increase in the coming decades, which would result in significant changes in the Security System of America’s retirement money.
The nation went through a deep recession throughout 1982. Business bankruptcies rose 50 percent over the previous year. The farmers where really hit hard, as agriculture exports declined, the crop prices dropped, and interest rates increased. By the time 1983 came around, inflammation was down. The economy had come back and the United States began a time of economic growth. There was a horrible event for the economy in the 1980’s.
The world population is growing faster than food can be produced. There are many countries that are starving because they can’t produce food. Some countries lack the money for research, education, or the land space. All across the world people are starving to death and this is the century that needs to fix it. There are countries like the U.S., Japan, and China that can educate other countries.
Greetings my friends, Family, and people of this nation, as you all know in these past years the prices on Fuel has gone up reaching record highs. Even prices on clothing, food, and paper has been going up and with these hard times around us, how are we to pay for these high prices on everyday items? . Forests are depleting slowly to make paper for use, in doing so we are losing food that come naturally and destroying our planet slowly. What if one plant could help fix out problem, one plant that can grow in any climate, on any part of the planet with little care, that gives back to the earth when it dies?
The attack was against our people, our institutions, and our culture. It then led to a war on terror that has been occurring for over 10 years now and seems like it’s never going to end. As we can see, the prices of gasoline have been fluctuating over the years but ultimately, the prices have been increasing in the last six years. In the recession that we are currently experiencing, the people that are the most affected are those that are living paycheck to paycheck. We are all currently experiencing an economic crisis and if the money going to the war was spent on raising salary wages or creating more jobs, people would not have to go through hardships.
On farms that had become vacant, peasants took ownership and started making more money. In many cities, the wages were rising so rapidly that the government tried putting laws on the amount that wages were to rise since the amounts in which they were going up was so ridiculous. (Zahler, pg. 34) Since people were making so much more money, and since serfdom had been reduced to such a miniscule amount, a new class was created, the working class. It enabled people to work for the money they needed, rather than resting soley on the decisions of landlords.
Every since people figured out how to use gasoline, everyone has complained about wasting it. But within the past decade, that issue has grown tremendously. With gas prices rising and the economy falling, people are stressing about the amount of gas still available for use. How long will it be available? What will happen when its gone?
Many Americans found themselves very uphappy with the recent tax increases in 2013. They received their first check only to find it slightly lower then checks from the year before. There was a large outcry from the working class across America admonishing the current administration for further taxing the working middle class American public. The current administration estimates that universal healthcare will cost the United States over a trillion dollars over the next ten years. Many have safely assumed that this number could double, increasing a deficit on an already financially unstable government.