Top 5 Biggest Problems and Solutions

Top 5 Biggest Problems: In Order of Importance

1.     Racism 

a.     I think the number one problem we have in our country today is racism. It’s all over the news, allover social media, and all around us. So many cases regarding police brutality that are directly correlated with race are surfacing. We have Donald Trump and his supporters (I’m sure there are exceptions), expressing hate and anger towards people of different religions and skin color and we have Syrian refugees being denied asses to countries because of their race and origin.

2.     Minimum Wage

b.     This issue is affected by many forces and overlaps a lot of issues with our society and economy. But I agree some people don’t deserve to get paid more for simple jobs, but in the other hand you have college students trying to balance life and school and getting paid so little just makes life a whole lot harder.

3.     Immigration laws

c.     When people hear immigration I feel like they think Hispanics coming into the country and trying to find jobs. But what many need to realized is that there’s a whole world outside these boarders filled with different people from different countries who also want to come in to the United States. My roommate is one of the nicest girls I’ve ever meet, but she’s here on a student visa and her life is really hard. Legally she can only work on university property, but back to point number two, she doesn’t make enough money to live here. So as a result, she works at U.F and she has 3 other jobs all under the table where she gets paid very little, in cash and gets no benefits. She’s a brilliant hard working student who would be an asset to this country, and I find it so unfair that the U.S makes it so hard for students like her to prosper.

4.     Sexual inequality between men and women.

d.     When I talk about this I don’t just mean the wage gap between males and females, but just socially how women are viewed in today’s society. I find it so weird how people don’t realize they are being sexist. I got into an argument once with my boyfriend and his friends because they were praising one of their friends for having sex with some girl and then they has the audacity of calling the girl he screwed a slut for screwing him back. I brought their hypocrisy to their attention and they flat out told me it didn’t matter because he was a guy. Just how does that make any sense?

5.     How many homeless people there are in the U.S

e.     It absolutely breaks my heart to see so many people on the street. I personally believe that half of these people just need a little push in the right direction and some confidence. Something so small as a shower and a haircut are all thing we all take for granted, that would make such a difference in a homeless person’s life. And to even think that a lot of them are veterans, people that put their life on the line to give us our freedom and they don’t even have a bed to sleep on.

5 Solutions in Odder of Implementation Simplicity: With Correlating Letters

1.     E. I think this is the easiest problem to fix. This isn’t a social problem, or a problem that requires individuals to change the way they think, this is purely about money. We can’t let the government do everything, and frankly they are already in enough debt. So the core of the problem I believe should be fixed by just ordinary people. Of course we won’t be able to do it without the governments help. For starters the government needs to hire new individuals, fire some, and remodel their veteran affairs offices. My dad is a veteran and when he goes to the local veteran office here in Gainesville he always complains about the quality. If we can fix that, then that would eliminate a big percentage of the homeless population, because getting our veterans off the streets should be one of the veteran’s affairs priorities. Moving on, all these high school students should be required to volunteer to graduate. If we plant this seed, who’s to say some of these students won’t grow up to do something great for society. Where I went to school volunteer work was something you did to make yourself look good for college and only a handful would do it. If we get all high-schoolers to volunteer we would have more than enough volunteers and students can actually take away something from the experience. Also, Organizations that help the community need funding. Where are they going to get the money? I’m not sure. The U.S is home to many profitable businesses and company’s, maybe a portion of their yearly tax payout can go to local charities. Lastly these organizations need some paid employees. This might defeat the purpose of it being a charity, but charity or not, they are still a business. They are dealing with money and they are providing a product or a service. Hence the need for educated individuals to be part of the organization, to make sure they aren’t wasting money and to make sure they are operating at their full potential. An alternative to this might also be to hire a local accounting firm. A lot of local firm have department that deal specifically with taxes for non-profits (they file their taxes differently). These accountant are trained in a lot more than just plugging and chugging numbers. There’s an art to the way accountants do what they do, and there’s a lot of nonprofits that could use their help in making sure that their donations are being properly used and their assets are properly allocated. (You can totally tell I’m an accounting major)

2.     B. I think more regulations need to be in place in regards to what is considered a simple “anyone can do” job, and an easy skilled job. Why should a McDonald’s employee make just as much as a C.N.A? The answer is they shouldn’t, but currently they do. If the government raises minimum wage to $10.00 an hour McDonalds workers would be at par with some of our law enforcement and medical personnel. Individuals that have to go through some level of schooling to get their jobs. That’s unfair, so the only solution I propose to this is, if the government decides to raise the minimum wage, they have to raise other jobs wages as well. But with higher wages come more buying power, and eventually higher prices. So I propose they do raise the minimum wage but for only for certain jobs, jobs that require skills and some level of education or technique.

3.     C. Again I feel like in order to fix this our laws need more sharpening. Just like minimum wage, I think there needs to be some exceptions and more rules that make it easier for individuals who are interested in becoming U.S citizens. I don’t know much about this subject but I’m sure it has to be complicated.  If you think about it, when you have a U.S Passport you can go anywhere you want. We may not think about it as much, but it’s a privilege.

4.     D. This is a social problem. And if anything takes a long time to fix or change is people’s perceptions. Take gay marriage for example, homosexuality has been around for centuries, but just last year was it ok for individuals of the same sex to get married, and only about 20 or so years ago did it become ok for individuals to show the world that they liked people of the same sex. Till this day there is still a lot of prejudice toward the LGBT community. This society still needs to do a lot of growing. The only way to attack social problems is at the root. I’m a strong believer that kids are our future and if we want anything to change for the better we need to teach kinds for the better. There’s no point in trying to change adults perceptions. The way adults think and act has been implanted in their brains since birth. If we want people to embrace each other’s differences and treat others equally we have to teach this way of thinking to out kids, because one day they will grow up and they will be the ones running this world.

5.     A. I don’t know the solution to any of these problem, but I know for a fact our futures aren’t going in a positive direction if all we express is hate towards one another. We are all human, and the only way we will ever be able to live in harmony and peace in this world is if we start embracing our differences, respecting one another, and promoting and expressing love towards each other.

                   

I focused all my problems within the U.S. Over all the world has a lot of problems ranging from world hunger to bullying, but its just too much to take in all at once. When I first started this assignment I thought there was going to be an inverse relationship with the problems and the solutions. But that wasn’t necessarily true. Like I said before I think the easiest problem to fix is our homeless problem and the minimum wage issues. These are mostly money related and I feel like there’s not a lot of grey area regarding personal opinions, compared to my other problems. Towards the end on the list I put the problems which I felt have a lot to do with individual opinions, where there’s no concrete way to fix it. Somethings just need time.