Essay On Overpopulation In The United States

Overpopulation in the United States
Over the last several years’ overpopulation in the United State has developed into a very important issue for our nation. Overpopulation is generally defined as too many people or animals living in a certain area. There are currently over 320 million people living in the United States at this time and that number continues to grow daily. Overpopulation affects several different things throughout our nation including: unemployment and the homeless rate. Some factors that go along with overpopulation are low recourses and illegal immigration. Overpopulation has become a growing problem within the United States.
As the population number continues to grow, so does the unemployment number.

Overpopulation causes extreme growth within unemployment which has became a serious

problem in the United States. The unemployment rate is at 5.0. Due to technology and overpopulation it will continue to grow more and more. For every 1,000 women of childbearing age last year, there were 62.9 births, up from 62.5 births in 2013, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (Shah) Along with the rising birthrate, we as Americans, continue to allow immigrants into our country. The United States’ population is made up of around 15% immigrants. We don’t have enough jobs for our own people, let alone, another country’s people.
Over population significantly contributes to the unemployment rate, the homeless rate is also on the rise as well. More than 600,00 Americans are homeless on a given night, according to the latest government data, which conducts a count on a specific night in January every year. Nearly a quarter are children and a third were living in unsheltered places like parks, cars, or abandoned buildings. (Covert1.) Recently violence of homeless people without shelter is higher than ever and there are new stories of people who are killed for no reason at all. In 2015, federal funding to address homelessness totaled to 4.5 billion. (Alliance4.) This is funding that the United States government could be using towards the country’s debt that also is continuing to grow.
Our country is lacking in the funding, volunteers and resources to provide to the homeless and jobless in need. As human overpopulation drives resources and basic necessities, such as food and water, to become more scarce there will be increased competiveness for these resources which leads to elevated crime rates due to drug cartels and theft by people in order to survive. (Tsiattalos) Every day, 25,000 people die of malnutrition and hunger-related diseases. Almost 18,000 of them are children under 5 years old. (Institute for Population Studies)
Immigration and unauthorized immigration is a very large factor in overpopulation. The immigration rate continues to grow in our country. In 2014 there were 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants in the United States. There were 5.5 million Mexican unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. in 2014. These immigrants make up 5.1% of the U.S. labor force, these are jobs they are taking away from United States tax paying citizens. Unless we act to change our country's immigration policies, U.S. population will double this century - practically within the lifetimes of children born today. By the year 2020, if current population trends continue, the U.S. will add enough population to create another New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, San Francisco, Indianapolis, San Jose, Memphis, Washington D.C., Jacksonville, Milwaukee, Boston, Columbus, New Orleans, Cleveland, Denver, Seattle, and El Paso - plus the next 75 largest cities in the U.S. if we don't act now to stabilize U.S. population. (Elbel)
Many would argue that the United States population pales in compassion and that other countries. Few countries have the resources that the United States has to support and maintain its population. There could be various measures of overpopulation, but I can't think of one that would yield an answer of "yes". The most logical would be people per square mile. By this measure the most overpopulated country is Bangladesh, with 2,839 people per square mile (1,096 per square km). The USA isn't remotely close; it has 84 people per square mile. The actual ranking might change if you used "population per arable land" but the USA would be nowhere near the most overpopulated. (Florm)
As you can see overpopulation not only hurts one specific area of the United States but it hurts several different areas.

Overpopulation has a domino affect on our country. At the current rate our country is growing faster than what our economy can support. As the technological advances continue to take more and more American labor jobs from the work force, the population continues to grow. Illegal immigration takes many many American labor jobs and without a secure border this problem is going to continue. “Ozone depletion, lack of water, and pollution are not the disease—they are the symptoms. The disease is overpopulation. And unless we face world population head-on, we are doing nothing more than sticking a Band-Aid on a fast-growing cancerous tumor.” –Dan Brown The longer us Americans take to realize this serious problem and take action, the more it will effect us later on. Our resources, funding and volunteers will only lessen the longer we allow overpopulation to occupy our country. That is why it is so important that we begin to address the significant problem of overpopulation. Overpopulation has become a growing problem within the United

States.