United States Secretary of Labor

According to the Census Bureau in 2010, “there were 42 million poor people in the United States,” and a large portion of those who reside in the middle class are approaching the poverty line, thus, augmenting the amount of people who live in the lower class. As a result, income inequality has become a paramount topic in recent times, especially in the 2016 election. In addition to politicians and other government members discussing this gargantuan issue, professors, journalists, and others have…

strike leaders and assault by police, strengthen the stance of the position of the women workers. These incidents also caught the attention of business elite which was already leaning towards the progressivism. During that era, the president of United States, Theodore Roosevelt and the governor of the New York, Charles Evans Hughes both had the progressive ideology but on the contrary New York also had Tammany Hall who was a complete opposite of progressivism. People from different religions,…

The benefits of annexing Texas to the United States outweighed potential difficulties. Relations With Mexico In his 1844 message to the U.S. Senate, President John Tyler called for an immediate end to disputes and for reconciliation between Mexico and Texas. He hoped this would produce fair and equitable terms for the…

On Behalf of Inequality and the Top 1 Percent For the past few decades, the unequal distribution of income has gradually positioned itself as one of the focal themes of academic research and of national debates in the United States. While the chances of it being thoroughly discussed on the news remain relatively slim due to Donald Trump 's latest groping scandal and Hillary Clinton 's missing emails, the topic inevitably holds the interest of many other people, especially economists, leading…

chair of the Counterterrorism Security Group, the CSG for short, guided the United States’ instantaneous response to the terrorist attacks from the infamous Situation Room located in the West Wing of the White House. It is from here, that Clarke starts his narrative. With a thirty-year career in national security, involving ten years in the White House, Richard Clarke brings a remarkably extensive perspective on the United States’ struggles to battle terrorism both on the home front and abroad.…

Baptist minister, proclaimed that Christians should endorse social reform to end poverty and labor abuse. 20. According to the members of the Social Gospel movement, it was the government’s ethical responsibility to improve the living and working conditions in America. 21. Many economists climbed aboard the religious bandwagon to call for state action to produce social progress. B. Municipal, State, and National Reforms 1. During the first decade of the twentieth century,…

in matters such as predicting a cascade of movements in the United States and elsewhere which is a new directional change. Even though not all his analyses were right, his conscious of organization making the difference in today’s world. Mills’ power elite model was one out three organizational sectors. These three sectors has become a larger scale of concentration of power. The power elite have moved from the middle class and the labor union, to the business corporations, the…

Department of Labor is a cabinet-level department of the United States federal government headed by the Secretary of Labor, a person chosen by the President to run this specific department. The Department officially achieved department level status on March 4th, 1913 as it was signed by President William Howard Taft. Initially, it had a staff of 2,000 people and a budget of $2.33 Million. The department currently has 17,450 employees with a budget of $12.1 Billion and the current secretary is…

Union Report In the belly of the country lies the United Mine Workers of America. This union currently has over 800,000 members and has been representing miners for over 125 years. The United Mine Workers of America was created as a way to protect miners, specifically in the coal mining field. However, today the United Mine Workers of America has blossomed from representing the mining industry to manufacturing, health care and the Navajo Nation (United Mine Workers of America, 2017). While…

Rebellion In 1791 the government of the United States was just recovering from the Revolutionary War, during which time a great amount of debt had been incurred. United States Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, proposed a bill to help prevent the national debt from growing any larger. This bill would put an excise tax of 25% on all distilled spirits and was approved by both houses during the 1791 winter session of Congress. “The Treasury Secretary considered liquor a “luxury” item,…