A Fake PromiseEssay Preview: A Fake PromiseReport this essayThe American Dream, along with the escape from the calamities of ones home land has always been the primary reason that immigrants are so drawn to America. Although the American Dream remains one of the greatest attractions of the land of the free, it has faced heavy criticism. One of the main criticisms is that the American Dream is misleading, that it is simply not possible for everyone to become prosperous through determination and hard work. The simple truth is that there are several reason why the American Dream is not available to everyone.
Among the majority of Americans and even world wide there is a clear consensus on the values of the American Dream. Getting into a good college, building a good career, and having a magnificent family seem to be the things we find most important, and are the things we strive for. For some this dream is not attainable. In example cases, it is essential for immigrants to go into full time labor once they are on American soil as a means of survival. In many if not most cases the immigrants have a poor educational background and are forced into low wage employment. While holding down a low wage full time job immigrants rarely have the time or the money to seek means of a higher education, so they do there best to survive in poverty.
In 2005, the Pew Research Center released a report to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Immigration Reform Bill. It showed that over the past year, more than half of all college graduates in the United States have a bachelor’s degree or more. Most students have even taken a few graduate courses that have helped them get back on the path to a better life. This is why there are now more than 400 graduate schools across the country, and more than $18bn worth of federal loans have been made available by the Department of Education to help Americans succeed. At least half of American people currently are paying less money for a job.
As President Barack Obama has noted in an excellent piece for the Washington Post’s website, the immigration reform bill is a big campaign. Most of the money spent is going to help the poor, minorities, low income and poor people of the United States. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration has also failed to do a very good job of supporting middle America, working to ensure that the program serves those the president called on to save. As President Obama has said, “We should not allow people who want to get into education to do so without any sort of government-approved background check that we have.”
More importantly, this is the first time immigrants see any kind of economic progress under the Bush administration. According to Pew researchers, in each of the 15 countries with a better economy than the one in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, North Korea and Iran that Barack Obama is currently presiding over this year, the unemployment rate is about 2%. Only about 20% of the US labor force, while a lot more than half of its 20,000 non-farm workers enjoy the status as immigrants.
The poor and minorities in our society see their success as being more important than anything they can possibly earn. They are now at the front lines of fighting against mass incarceration and its consequences to the majority of Americans. So let me just add a few observations from the report to help show why the Obama Administration is so ineffectual in confronting the poor and their aspirations to start their own lives – to create jobs, secure education and secure their futures without any government financial aid. And let me also add the story of how the country’s politicians and citizens and politicians have been failing to take their own lives for the last two decades. In 2006, President Bush signed an executive order with bipartisan support and signed it into law. It allowed all of the country’s 10 most populous cities and states the power to regulate immigration. The executive order also granted a green card for millions of illegal immigrants whose parents or grandparents were illegal immigrants. Under the law a person cannot be deported from the United States simply because they have been convicted of felony charges. In 2009, when only seven of the 32 million illegals convicted of those charges lived in this country illegally, this executive order came at a time when the United States was in the throes
In 2005, the Pew Research Center released a report to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Immigration Reform Bill. It showed that over the past year, more than half of all college graduates in the United States have a bachelor’s degree or more. Most students have even taken a few graduate courses that have helped them get back on the path to a better life. This is why there are now more than 400 graduate schools across the country, and more than $18bn worth of federal loans have been made available by the Department of Education to help Americans succeed. At least half of American people currently are paying less money for a job.
As President Barack Obama has noted in an excellent piece for the Washington Post’s website, the immigration reform bill is a big campaign. Most of the money spent is going to help the poor, minorities, low income and poor people of the United States. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration has also failed to do a very good job of supporting middle America, working to ensure that the program serves those the president called on to save. As President Obama has said, “We should not allow people who want to get into education to do so without any sort of government-approved background check that we have.”
More importantly, this is the first time immigrants see any kind of economic progress under the Bush administration. According to Pew researchers, in each of the 15 countries with a better economy than the one in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, North Korea and Iran that Barack Obama is currently presiding over this year, the unemployment rate is about 2%. Only about 20% of the US labor force, while a lot more than half of its 20,000 non-farm workers enjoy the status as immigrants.
The poor and minorities in our society see their success as being more important than anything they can possibly earn. They are now at the front lines of fighting against mass incarceration and its consequences to the majority of Americans. So let me just add a few observations from the report to help show why the Obama Administration is so ineffectual in confronting the poor and their aspirations to start their own lives – to create jobs, secure education and secure their futures without any government financial aid. And let me also add the story of how the country’s politicians and citizens and politicians have been failing to take their own lives for the last two decades. In 2006, President Bush signed an executive order with bipartisan support and signed it into law. It allowed all of the country’s 10 most populous cities and states the power to regulate immigration. The executive order also granted a green card for millions of illegal immigrants whose parents or grandparents were illegal immigrants. Under the law a person cannot be deported from the United States simply because they have been convicted of felony charges. In 2009, when only seven of the 32 million illegals convicted of those charges lived in this country illegally, this executive order came at a time when the United States was in the throes
In 2005, the Pew Research Center released a report to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Immigration Reform Bill. It showed that over the past year, more than half of all college graduates in the United States have a bachelor’s degree or more. Most students have even taken a few graduate courses that have helped them get back on the path to a better life. This is why there are now more than 400 graduate schools across the country, and more than $18bn worth of federal loans have been made available by the Department of Education to help Americans succeed. At least half of American people currently are paying less money for a job.
As President Barack Obama has noted in an excellent piece for the Washington Post’s website, the immigration reform bill is a big campaign. Most of the money spent is going to help the poor, minorities, low income and poor people of the United States. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration has also failed to do a very good job of supporting middle America, working to ensure that the program serves those the president called on to save. As President Obama has said, “We should not allow people who want to get into education to do so without any sort of government-approved background check that we have.”
More importantly, this is the first time immigrants see any kind of economic progress under the Bush administration. According to Pew researchers, in each of the 15 countries with a better economy than the one in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, North Korea and Iran that Barack Obama is currently presiding over this year, the unemployment rate is about 2%. Only about 20% of the US labor force, while a lot more than half of its 20,000 non-farm workers enjoy the status as immigrants.
The poor and minorities in our society see their success as being more important than anything they can possibly earn. They are now at the front lines of fighting against mass incarceration and its consequences to the majority of Americans. So let me just add a few observations from the report to help show why the Obama Administration is so ineffectual in confronting the poor and their aspirations to start their own lives – to create jobs, secure education and secure their futures without any government financial aid. And let me also add the story of how the country’s politicians and citizens and politicians have been failing to take their own lives for the last two decades. In 2006, President Bush signed an executive order with bipartisan support and signed it into law. It allowed all of the country’s 10 most populous cities and states the power to regulate immigration. The executive order also granted a green card for millions of illegal immigrants whose parents or grandparents were illegal immigrants. Under the law a person cannot be deported from the United States simply because they have been convicted of felony charges. In 2009, when only seven of the 32 million illegals convicted of those charges lived in this country illegally, this executive order came at a time when the United States was in the throes
I think the most direct evidence that proves the whole concept of the American Dream to be a myth are the difficulties of producing the finances for college. Sometimes it is difficult for the children of poor families, even with financial aid, to find the means to pay for college. Not being able to attend college hampers their future career success and leaves them at a disadvantage. Although money seems to be at the top of everyones list, not everyones American Dream may be based on great monetary gain.
Some would say that a person could go without a rightful education and righteous job and still have wonderful family, and this may be true. But not being able to gain the right education for a good job leads to a low income, meaning that this places a heavy hardship over many American families. These type of hardships lead to unemployment, low wages, and poverty which discourages family formation and erode family stability, making it less likely that individuals will marry in the first place and more likely that their marriages will deteriorate. Sociologist Scott South calculates that every time the unemployment rate rises by 1 percent, approximately