Response to: Unemployment Woes Continue

Unemployment is an issue for discussion. In a classmate's blog, a post introduces ideas to help the unemployment problem that is facing our nation today. The unemployment rates just seem to keep going up and up with little efforts to fix the problem. Any route that the government will try and take to fix this problem will just create more debt in our already dwindling economy. I have to disagree in the idea that the government should extend better unemployment benefits to the public. This would keep the public from continuing to try to find work, and just leave them to be lazy with no real reason to try very hard. This is a hard time for our nation but I believe we can push through it with a proper plan. Also, this idea is hard to believe that there wouldn’t be some kind of catch to it. I’m sure that with these benefits, debt would likely be involved.
The New York Times further writes on this topic saying that there are two reasons that unemployment rates are so slow. The first being that “there has been a big increase in the number of people not working purely by their own choice.” This category can be referred to as the “self-unemployed” and include “retirees, stay-at-home parents” and others doing “unpaid work.” The second explanation to the low rates would be a “jump in the number of people who aren’t working, who aren’t actively looking but who would, in fact, like to find a good job.” I think that finding a job is very time consuming and it takes a lot of will power. However, if you invest your time and attention to the situation, you will eventually be able to find something substantial.

Immigration

Illegal immigration is starting to become a crisis inside the US border. The House proposed a bill on Tuesday that would allow $600 million dollars in funding to tighten up border security. The Congress and the White House, “felt with a greater urgency to act” on this crisis due to the public’s outcry on the new Arizona immigration law that was passed recently. I think that the government is realizing that if they do not invest their money into our border security, then racism will start to become a major issue in the US against Mexican-Americans. The bill "includes $176 million for 1,000 new border patrol agents to form a strike force to be deployed at critical areas, $89 million for another 500 customs and immigration personnel, and $32 million to deploy unmanned aerial vehicles or drones." The government should’ve invested their time and money in this much sooner. However, to have light on this issue is a good thing and I see a good outcome in the future concerning our border patrol. The southern states that this has been affecting will feel safer and see a more control environment in their cities.
Racism seems to be becoming more and more of an issue between the government and the public. Fox News wrote an article about the NYC lawsuit that is ensuing between civil rights groups and the U.S. Census Bureau. The “civil rights groups on Thursday accused the U.S. Census Bureau of discrimination in its hiring of more than a million temporary workers to conduct the 2010 census, saying it ignored a warning from a federal agency that its hiring practices might violate the Civil Rights Act.” If these issues keep arising, the country will lose its sense of equality and the fundamentals that shape what our nation is today.