Illegal immigration continues to increase in numbers.The economy is suffering because of the lack of regulation, unemployment is up, revenue from tax has decreased and the incoming immigrants are hurting the economy versus helping, not being available to the benefits that are offered by the U.S.
Solution: A practical solution could be to propose a policy that allows foreign workers to work for lower wages as well as taxes allowing them to partake in the growth of the economy with still having restrictions.
College continues to be pushed on high school students. The more students attend the more expense college education becomes, increasing the amount of student loan debt brought to students and their families.
Solution: A practical solution would be to take a students financial situation into account when allowing the federal government to aid budgets, much like FASFA. However, many students are not dependent on their parents. Another solutions may be to either increase college funding, decrease tuition, and/or build programs in markets where jobs are needed so that each student graduating is guaranteed a salary and ample pay to pay back loans.
Healthcare continues to be an issue for low-income families. Obama has implemented ObamaCare, because of this act households who lack healthcare are now subject to a tax penalty at the end of the tax year.
Solution: A practical solution can be to encourage healthcare among households and educate individuals on how important it may be rather than forcibly have low-income families pay this new penalty.
The legalization of marijuana. Although it may be not be a negative it has received a lot of negative feedback because of the societal changes, and health risks.
Solution: A practical solution may be to allow the changes to take place, analysis the use of marijuana and see the positives of the the usage when it comes to the economy and health related issues.
Aviana,
ReplyDeleteI like the general direction you're attempting to go, but in execution, it seems to fall a little short.
For example "Another solutions may be to either increase college funding, decrease tuition, and/or build programs in markets where jobs are needed so that each student graduating is guaranteed a salary and ample pay to pay back loans"
-- Unfortunately there are no guarantees in life. An industry that has 50,000 job openings today, may not even exist in 5 years. So studying something because you think it "guaranteed a salary and ample pay to pay back loans." is probably not the best idea.
Since this is an opinion based blog and we are both taking part of this intro course, I'd appreciate if you'd respect my opinions with your feedback being objective rather than subjective, expressing what you seem to deem right. By all means if you'd like to post an additional problem to your list, I'd love to read your ideas of practical and implementable solutions.
DeleteI think you have thought out reasonable solutions to very difficult problems. I have friends and family who are in debt up to their eyeballs from student loans that they have yet to be able to pay back mostly because of the lower paying jobs they had to take once they completed school. I think you have a good idea, businesses who want qualified people in new industries may be willing to pay for someone to go to school and guarantee a job after graduation for a certain number of years. I have actually heard of this happening in some very specific/technical fields, maybe there is a way to grow this type of business offered program? I posted my ideas at: http://melbufent3003.blogspot.com/2016/01/melbs-worlds-biggest-problems.html
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