Ten Trillion and Counting
The 3 most important concepts
2009 Unemployment
By the fall of 2008, four major mortgage providers had declared bankruptcy, and in September 2008, three of the largest financial institutions in the country wich were Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns, and AIG also collapsed.
In March of 2009, the great recession was in full force and every part of the economy was feeling the pain. The stock market had lost over 54% of its value. 17 moths earlier, the Dow Jones had hit an all-time high of over 14, 000 and the S&P 500 had peaked as well at over 1,560. The Unemployment rate which had been under 5% when the stock market was hitting high levels in 2007, was at 9.5% in June 2009 and spiked over 10% for the first time since 1982 in October 2009.
The unemployment rate surged to 10.2 percent in October, reaching double digits for the first time in 26 years.
National Debt
Growth of US Debt Over Past 50 Years
2010: $13,178,356,215.73
2004: $7,379,052,696,330.32
1999: $5,656,270,901,615.43
1994: $4,692,749,910,013.32
1989: $2,857,430,960,187.32
1984: $1,572,266,000,000.00
1979: $826,519,000,000.00
1974: $475,059,815,731.55
1969: $353,720,253,841.41
1964: $311,712,899,257.30
1959: $284,705,907,078.22
March 13, 2015, the US debt was $18.152 trillion, which hit its statutory debt ceiling. The US Treasury has been trying to hold the U.S national debt at that level, but the US debt in 2016 is over $19 trillion. All of this money has been using for the US's benefits which are: US debt's that had to be paid, War expenses, programs that had to be created, etc. The US. owes money to almost 38 countries in which China is one of the biggest creditors.
Here is the Top 10 (as of Oc/2015)
1. China, Mainland, $1254.8 billion dollars
2. Japan, $1149.2 billion dollars
3. Carib Bkg , $322.0 billion dollars
4.Oil Exporters*, $291.4 billion dollars
5.Brazil, $255.0 billion dollars
6.Ireland, $232.9 billion dollars
7. Switzerland, $225.6 billion dollars
8., $210.6 billion dollars
9.Hong Kong, $197.0 billion dollars
10. Luxembourg, $188.2 billion dollars
Health Care Reform Focus
Americans spend over $3 trillion a year on but have shorter life expectancies and higher rates of infant mortality and diabetes than our global peers.
In order to refocus on wellness, over the past year, the Bipartisan Policy Center convened a Prevention Task Force to determine how to change our nation's health conversation so we are taking actions to promote wellness rather than focusing solely on providing reactive medical treatment after a person gets sick.
Today, the task force is releasing recommendations for achieving this goal, which better connecting clinical providers and community organizations, and creating incentives to make preventive care a priority. As senior advisers to the task force, we strongly endorse the two-part framework today's report outlines to more fully integrate prevention into the nation's approach to health and health care. Basically, Health Care Reform is focusing on the people's benefit, they want to raise taxes, cut some governmental expenses, etc, so they can save that money to help their citizens. Also, they are asking to have more investigations over the things that are happening with the Senior's visits with their doctor, because sometimes doctors change them "medication", "services" and other things on their that they don't need.
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Health Care Reform Focus
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