Economy of the United States

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    Small businesses are the heart of the United State economy. There are 28 million small businesses in America and count for more than 54% of sales (Small business trends, n.d.). Many of those businesses are started by entrepreneurs who are willing to take risks and develop their visions and dreams of owning a business in today’s competitive market. That was the case when Victoria Carolina Pocasangre opened Pocasangre Olivia Dental, a small dental practice in the heart of Clovis, California five years

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    The United States economy experienced a recession starting in December 2007 and ending in June 2009 as reported by the National Bureau of Economic Research. (http://www.bls.gov/spotlight/2012/recession/pdf/recession_bls_spotlight.pdf) The employment market was directly impacted as evidenced by the growth in unemployment rate. Employers reduced staffing to cut costs and protect profit margins. In doing so, employers combined approximately 2-3 worker’s positions into one shifting the required skills

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    services in the community such as Mixed Economies, Free Market, Socialism, communism, and Fascism. Mixed Economies is an economic system that protects private properties and it allows the free market and the laws of supply and demand to determine prices, combining private and public enterprise, it has the same features as capitalism. Mixed economies protect private properties and allows economic freedom in the capital. There are many advantages of mixed economies it can reduce the amount of government

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    The United States: The Impact of Its Economy on Transportation and Logistics Management Transportation and logistics coordinate the movement of goods and people. The transportation and logistics industry is the catalyst that propels the American economy. However, it works both ways. Economic pressures on the national, regional, and local levels affect decisions and policies made by logistics managers. This paper will explore the intricate relationship between the United States economy and Transportation

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    The second World War affected the United States economy in several ways. When World War II began, the United States was in the Great Depression- a time of intense economic suppression and widespread dejection across the nation lasting from 1929 until 1939. The effects of World War II are still represented today. For example, the price of one gallon of gas in 1940 was only eleven cents (Myers). Today, the cost of a gallon of gas has been increased by eighteen times the amount it was before the

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    Population in the United States and its Effect on our Economy July 20, 2010 Aging Population 1 The population in the United States is aging at an unprecedented pace. For the first time in history, seventy percent of everyone who has ever lived is alive today (Isidro, 2009). The aging population and their imminent retirement will place an even greater strain on the country’s financial resources. The baby boomers; people born between 1946 and 1964 have influenced our economy by their sheer

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    Immigration and Its Effect on the United States' Economy The 1990s have brought the largest influx of immigrants into labor force of the United States of any decade in this nation's history. A panel of social science scholars concluded their assessment of U.S. society with the observation that "America's biggest import is people" and determined that "at a time when attention is directed to the general decline in American exceptionalism, American immigration continues to flow at a rate unknown

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    should be made illegal because of the economic effects, addictive properties, secondhand smoke, and can lead to disease and/or death. The first reason that tobacco should be illegal is because of its effects on the United States economy. In the United States tobacco has harmed the economy because it has taken away from the price discounts that can be given out for products because tobacco products alone account for 84.3% of all of these discounts.This means that for things that people require to live

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    Within a dynamic economy, like the United States, jobs are lost and created and workers are displaced and reemployed continuously. There will always be technological advancements that are replacing jobs. For example, automation in the manufacturing industry have replaced people in the workplace. Automation performs much more efficiently than a person performs. In this paper I am going to analyze the effects that automation has caused in the job market and how it will continue to affect various industries

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    Over the decades, as the number of students seeking higher education has continued to increase, so has the cost of education and the amount of student debts in the United States (US). This has raised controversy whether the rapidly increasing student debts in the US can lead to another crisis commonly referred to as the ‘higher education bubble.’ More often than not the extent of the student debt crisis is usually overstated, but the concern is justified (Freedman, 2014). The manner in which the

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