Unfortunately many states have taken the easy road and have become over-reliant on the federal government for support. In return they are forced to relinquish power and freedom. This is one of the “cons” to following the federal mandate of the universal MLDA of 21. The main argument against lowering the MLDA again, is the inevitable rise in drunken driving related deaths. In the 1960’s and 1970’s when many states had lowered the MLDA, besides the rise in drunk-driving deaths, studies showed that people raised from childhood in under-21 states were involved in higher rates of alcohol and drug use as adults, and had a higher rate of homicides and suicides.
The author’s main theory is that the economy is headed for a recession. The text book defines fiscal policy as: Changes in government spending and tax collections designed to achieve a full-employment and non inflationary domestic output. Government spending is understated and slightly overlooked in the article. The author only hints of the fact that federal government spending on defense is down. “Another negative factor was a 6.6 percent drop, on an annualized basis, in federal defense spending.” She supports that the decrease in GDP is directly related to the decrease in government spending g which proves how fiscal policy can affect overall economic growth.
“Mothers Against Drunk Driving claim the higher drinking age is responsible for a decline in annual alcohol-related deaths, from 26,173 in 1982 to 16,885 in 2005...” (Boston University, 2013). Although this decline is also related to other factors, such as safer vehicles and highway design, it undoubtedly accounts for most of
Those at highest risk of teen pregnancy are girls from single parent homes, families with low socioeconomic status, and girls with a sister who became pregnant as a teenager (Talashek, Alba, & Patel, 2006). A significant risk factor identified by the National Center for the Prevention of Teenage Pregnancy (NCPTP) is that 75% of pregnant teens have mothers who were also pregnant as a teenager (VanLenten, 200?). The lifestyle of the average teenager is not conducive to fetal development. Teen mothers are more likely to smoke, eat a fast food diet, less likely to have adequate prenatal care, and more
This led to a dramatic fall in the poverty rate of the United States. There was a dramatic fall in the poverty rate when Johnson first announced the War on Poverty in 1964. This is because he followed his announcement by creating Medicaid, Medicare, greater federal housing spending, and other programs to fight the increasing poverty rate. In 1964, the poverty rate was estimated to be 19 percent; ten years later, it dropped to 11.2 percent (Matthews). This shows that with the commencement of the War against Poverty, the United States was slowly improving the lives of American citizens.
The author of Source E also provides facts to support guns, “National violent crime rates that soared for 30 years from the early 1960s began to decrease markedly since 1993. Last December the FBI reported that murder and other violent crime rates fell again by 6.4% during the first half of 2011 compared with the same period in 2010”(Source E). But the statistics pro-gun control are overwhelmingly
The Great Depression Vs. The Great Recession: Battle of the Heavyweights Writing Assignment #3 Dominique Worthen Dr. Katherine W. Causey Human Resources BUAD 307 The main causes of both crises lie in actions of the federal government with the addition to careless spending of consumers. In the case of the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, after keeping interest rates exaggeratedly low in the 1920s, raised interest rates in 1929 to halt the resulting boom. That helped choke off investment. Also, President Hoover signed into law the sky-high Smoot-Hawley Tariff, which subdued trade and damaged American exports throughout the 1930s.
Every day more people die in America than are born. Any increases in population since 1972 have been due to immigration.2 The sociological perils we face are not those of population explosion, but population reduction. The Population Research Institute agrees, and concluded, “Our long-term problem is not too many children, but too few children.”3 The legalization of abortion resulted in a drastic reduction of the number of children in this country. By 1980 there were 6.5 million fewer school-age children in America than just a decade earlier. This required the closing of nine-thousand elementary schools.4 Legalized abortion has resulted in over 46 million fewer taxpayers in America to support the elderly.
-- it encourages consensual or coercive sex --- condoms can be used to conceal drugs. Three strikes laws: the California experience --between 1993 and 1995 new habitual offender laws were mandating longer.... The justice policy institution reported the three strikes law has had a disproportionate impact on racial and ethnic communities in California 3 strikes law -has not had the impact on crime- it's proponents tought it would have -Children have also been found to be greatly affected by the law- JPI. Has recommended Cali consider amending/ abolishing their experiment wi the nations -most costly- and punitive three strikes
Lastly, regarding the pro-choice agenda, simply put, abortion noticeably lowers crime rates. Unwanted children that result from unplanned and undesired pregnancies are often the victims of poverty and child abuse. These circumstances have been known to lead children and adolescents down a