Shouldn’t We Be Helping Those at Home First?

The United States spends $30 billion a year on official development assistance overseas, according to Oxfam America. [...] We have foreign aid [to protect] our national security with [the] hopes it will reduce [the] poverty and injustice that fuel social tensions and [destabilize] countries. It also helps with our own economic interests, because aid can … Continue reading Shouldn’t We Be Helping Those at Home First?

Can’t Blame the Teachers for Getting Us into This Mess

In today’s America, why would anyone ever want to become a teacher? The budgets for our classrooms dwindle each year, and teachers continue to take money out of their own pockets to provide their students with supplies. The schools are getting older, and fewer new schools are being built annually. Based on the school shootings … Continue reading Can’t Blame the Teachers for Getting Us into This Mess

Dropouts Are Putting a Major Strain on Our Economy

Despite all the efforts of every president from Kennedy to Obama, [high-school dropouts] are a blight on our society. According to DoSomething.org, [more than] 1.2 million students drop out of high school in the United States every year, [or roughly] 7,000 kids a day. [In 1970], the United States [...] had the world’s highest graduation … Continue reading Dropouts Are Putting a Major Strain on Our Economy

It’s Too Expensive to Go to College Anymore

According to the [United States] Census Bureau, there are 59 million people 25 years or older who hold a bachelor’s degree or higher. Business [remains] the most popular major, with 12 million [graduates], while [e]ducation [is] the second most popular, with 8 million [graduates]. The median income for high school [graduates]—[those] who [have] never [gone] … Continue reading It’s Too Expensive to Go to College Anymore

Teachers Have It Rough, but Kids Are the Ones Who Suffer

With the start of the school year, we have yet another terrifying shooting incident—[this latest], at the McNair Discovery Learning Academy [...] in Decatur, Ga., [occurred] less than a year [...] from the tragedy in Newtown, Conn. Between Newtown and Decatur, the United States has [witnessed] 12 other shootings at schools. I just can’t [imagine] … Continue reading Teachers Have It Rough, but Kids Are the Ones Who Suffer