Essays on Federal Government

Healthcare practitioners and stakeholders: Ensuring the Health of All Americans Healthcare practitioners and stakeholders are working to ensure the health of all Americans, young and old, as part of the Healthy People program. Breastfeeding and high blood pressure are the two key health problems addressed in this assessment. The Goal of the...

In this article, the author discusses the kind of climate that President Trump inherited after a divisive campaign. His inauguration address would have provided him with an opportunity to unite Americans. Instead, he made forceful pronouncements that were meant to confront rather than reconcile. As a result, it differed from...

Eddie Bernice Johnson: A Trailblazer in Nursing and Politics Eddie Bernice Johnson is well-known for becoming the first registered nurse to be elected to Congress. Her accomplishments in that position have been extraordinary, as she has overcome numerous challenges in her career as a nurse and politician. She has introduced and...

Everyone has a right to health insurance coverage In my opinion, everyone has a right to health insurance coverage. I think that all Americans have a constitutional right to health care, and that no American should be left out of the system. Having the right to health coverage does not always...

From 2001 to 2010: The United States' Most Difficult Economic Decade From 2001 to 2010, the United States had its most difficult economic decade. It all started after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The world's largest and strongest economy was contracting at an alarming rate, and a solution had...

In a Washington Monthly piece, Raymond Smith explains the facts regarding Belgium and its ability to live for twenty months without a government (Raymond, 2013). This was triggered by the Prime Minister's resignation, which made it difficult for the opposing parties to compromise in order for someone to fill the...

Many people in the United States and around the world are still affected by handicap challenges. According to the 2016 Disability Annual Report based on the American Community Survey, the percentage of people living with disabilities in the United States was 12.6% in 2015. (Kraus, 2017). The rate has been...

Providing welfare assistance and its implications Providing welfare assistance has been a contentious subject in the United States throughout its history. From the colonial era, public welfare policy has reflected the belief that indigenous peoples are to blame for their plight. The old welfare system provided assistance to the needy to...

Several of the world's largest firms are headquartered in the European Union and the United States of America. According to IMF figures, the 28 EU member states have a combined economic output that is bigger than that of the United States and China. In 2014, the EU countries, including Iceland,...

One of the most significant war battles developed in the 1930s between the crafts unions and the industrial unions. As a result, it was necessary to separate skilled laborers from unskilled laborers. As a result, when the American Federation of Labor (AFL) expressed reservations about separating the two unions, John...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics' monthly employment report, released on November 3, 2017, is extremely enlightening about the condition of the US economy. The report reflects a steadily growing economy that is daily matching towards full employment, where every willing and able to work person will be employed; this is...

The Bursting of the Housing Bubble The bursting of the housing bubble took the US economy completely off guard. The term "housing bubble" is commonly used to identify the start of the housing crisis in 2008. The term "housing bubble" refers to a period in the real estate industry when the...