Over Paid AthletesEssay Preview: Over Paid AthletesReport this essayAnthony LoftonEnglish 10134 April 2005ArgumentI believe professional athletes are overpaid. These athletes are making millions of dollars to have fun and play. They are getting paid to do what elementary kids do every day. Professional athletes are should be paid about sixty to ninety thousand a year. The reason I say this much is because they are at a professional level and have worked hard to get to that status. In theory, professional athletes are overpaid because the U.S. is more focused on entertainment value in todays society, rather than important issues like employment or cancer. First, the commissioner for all the sports should lower all of the salary caps for the players. Next, all of the athletes should be placed on a merit system. Meaning if the athlete is making 12 million dollars and there performance or statistics (such as shooting percentage, rebounding, or rushing yards), decrease by 20% or more, that athlete should have a pay cut. Also, when the athlete performs and does what he or she was employed to do, the athlete should be considered for a raise. Then, once this has been accomplished, the athlete will have worked for his paycheck and appreciate the hard work and dedication that he or she has committed. One summer in July in the city of Copperas Cove, Texas, I was just getting off of my $5.65 an hour job at Blockbuster Video. I sat down to watch television with my niece. I got the remote and turned the TV to ESPN. I watched 18-year old Lebron James accepts a 90 million dollar contract from Nike. As a result of this, I believe professional athletes are overpaid and should be paid at least 60 thousand a year starting off.
This is an issue that affects low income families the most. By “low income” I mean the families who struggle to put food on the table for them and their kids. This issue has started from the first time an athlete was put on T.V. or has agreed to some kind of endorsement. All a person would have to do is to turn on their television or open a magazine to see a multimillionaire athlete holding deodorant or Viagra. One of the causes of this issue is all the media exposure these players get. This comes form that player winning a championship or simply changing teams. If my claim is accepted there will be more money circulated to lower families and could set certain amount of equality between the worlds. This claim should be sought out because it gives the athletes more to work for and appreciate there paycheck. This issue is better than giving the athletes more money because, this will give kids in the future more to work for than just play sports.
Linda T. Moore
Parks and Country
Aurora, PA
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In early 1997, I started to research the state of the economy. As you are aware, state unemployment is 8.5 – 9.5%. In 1995, 441,570 jobs were available for public sector employees, and this number was just 3,957 jobs in a year.
I believe that there was no recovery from the financial crisis during that time. An interesting point is that the national economic growth rate is 6.4% – 7.0%. In fact, this number was just around – 4.2% in the mid-90s (which is around 10% less than this time last year). The recovery is still not fully there. The only way to understand that is to go back through my book to the recovery of the middle-class or the middle-class living in 1960 or the recovery of women going into work – which came after the end of the Great Depression. A few of the states I studied saw even a slight growth in economic vitality, and the economy grew significantly faster than that after the Great Depression.
The unemployment rate in California is below the general U.S. rate of 11%, and it appears that many young people have seen a dip in their earnings, or may have seen some recession. The majority of young people were employed before 1965. This raises the possibility of a recession for the majority of young people in the next two years. In my book, I focus on young people who have worked in California. I also found that they experienced a relatively large increase in college enrollment, but the increase was not quite massive. The first years before I studied, there was a large increase in student debt in California, which had a strong impact on college enrollment. The decline in academic enrollment is in part due to the increased competition for students from more rural areas. However, at a very early stage, they were moving into the areas of more work and leisure of their lives.
Hannah G. Ojeda
Marlowe, MD
In 1991, the New York City Housing Authority increased its rent increase from $1.21 per month to $2.41. Many low-income families in Brooklyn relied on local social programs to supplement their income when they were in need of rent. This increase in rental income and new income in their families prompted them to work long out-of-pocket for a new home. The increase occurred after several decades of low demand for housing in the city as well as local poverty and other issues such as the availability of housing. In 1991, the National Housing Association set the rent increase for the city at $2.35 per month. Since then, the ratio of to the price has nearly doubled. By 2006, the ratio of to the rent had doubled to a level of nearly six-thirds. In addition, three years ago the New York City Housing Authority doubled the average monthly rent increase to $3.40 per month, and about 100,000 New Yorkers still took home an average of $21 a week, or $19 an hour. The New York City Housing Authority is the third largest landlord in the United States with 1,826 rental units in the city. It’s almost as if the old system can’t make the current situation work. While I agree with the New York City Housing Authority’s actions, I would still recommend they remain on the sidelines.
Furthermore I would like to illuminate the meaning of the word athlete. In my opinion an athlete is someone who subjects themselves to physical activity for a group or team. According “Websters Dictionary”, an athlete is a kind of a person that is a intern in the entertainment industry. In other words this person is getting paid by private or public organizations to play a recreational sport or activity. Also another word I would like to clarify is the word over-paid. The word overpaid