I will be examining the risks of the student loan bubble. Over the last 5 years the American federal reserve bank has increased spending on federal student loans over 1,000%. From $100 billion to over $1 trillion dollars. According to Kate Hardiman from University of Notre Dame “Economists believe the amount of federal money allocated to student loans shown in this graph is highly “unsustainable.””. With the increasingly large amount of risky student loans being given out its not going to be…
but it benefits our students. Jeremy Carp states, “the federal government spends over $75 billion annually on higher education programs (2015, para.1). However, these different types of schools like institutions benefit from federal support. These regulations are designed to overlook these uses of taxpaying funds and support broader policy goals, which can force costs on colleges, institutions and universities. “The task force federal regulation of higher education, comprised of 16…
Alexander Hamilton argued that the federal government should assume state debts “at par” because it would unite the states, more people would have a personal stake in the success of the enterprise, and it would help gain support from the wealthier groups. Hamilton argued that if Congress funded the entire national debt “at par” that it would help unite the states. During the Revolution all governments had taken on much debt, totaling about $21.5 million, but had no real commitment to pay them…
The Evolution of the Federal Role in Supporting Community Recovery After U.S. Disasters PAD3874: COMMUNITY RELATIONS THEORY/PR 180 (23322) Isabel Felipe Florida Southwestern State College Professor Matt Visaggio 1/29/2017 Summary: This article is about the different types of organizations that the government developed to help communities recover after a disaster. The main one to be mentioned is FEMA which was created in 1979 this included may other agencies that were joined together to help…
23 that provided for the constitution to be extended in “other parts of Germany after their accession.” To this end, the German government swiftly and decisively amended article 146 through the amended by unification treaty of 31 August 1990 and a federal statute on 23 September 1990 so that it was possible to merely admit the states of the former German Democratic republic into the Country. Article146 was thusly amended to read that; “This Basic law, which is valid for the entire German people…
In 2010 the supreme court ruled on two decisions, Citizens United v. Federal Electoral Commision, and Citizens United v. Federal Electoral Commision. The cases were to decide various rules on how political action committees would be governed. Political action committees or “super PACs” for short, are groups that are not supposed to be coordinated with a party, and can raise unlimited amounts of money to spend on advertising. The new court rulings decided that since the groups were making…
as extortion or the facilitation of a crime. For example, a child’s own parents may be charged with kidnapping if the do not have legal custody rights in some instances. There are some differences between state kidnapping and federal kidnapping (2018). According to federal criminal code (18 U.S.C SS 1201) kidnapping becomes a very serious felony offense, carrying twenty years or more of a prison sentence, under certain convictions and circumstances…
Data breaches caused by illegal hacking at Target were in themselves tragedies and worrisome events; not only for the company, but for the customers in general who shop at the store locations nation-wide. However, considering various steps taken by Target upon realization of the breaches, it is hard to defend or picture exact wrongful doings or violation of laws by Target. Let’s keep in mind that electronic data and information breaches are hard to prevent; this is mostly due to…
Frederick Douglass Essay The three-fifths Compromise of the Federal Constitution aptly described the American attitude in the post Revolutionary War period toward the group that constituted over 19% of the early United States, African Americans. After the Revolutionary War, fifty-five delegates were called together to revise the Articles of Confederation. The Southern states desperate not to be deprived of increased political representation, called for slaves to be declared citizens, thereby…
there are many policies in place that conflict with national and state government powers. The Tenth Amendment provides that the powers not granted to the federal government are reserved to the states or the people; therefore, there should be more of an equal distribution of power. Since the founding of the constitution, which aimed to create a federal system of government,…