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VFW Speech In the 1930’s The Great Depression hit America hard after a decade of thriving economically. Everything that could've went wrong happened, the Stock market crashed, which many Americans invested most of their life savings in leaving them completely broke. If they had any money in the bank, there was a slim chance they would be able to access it due to thousands of banks failing. On top of all of this, due to the loss of money, many businessmen all over the country began to lay off their employees, leaving many Americans unemployed. Millions of American families lost everything and a myriad of people fell below the poverty line. Americans needed a savior to come and rebuild America, the first President that came along was unable …show more content…

In 2008 when our 44th President Barack Obama came into office he was left with a high of 10 percent of American unemployed and an 18.9 percent of Americans living below the poverty line. Like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President Obama was tasked with the impossible to create jobs for Americans to decrease the unemployment rate and percentage of Americans living below poverty, to prevent another dark time in American history. After 8 years of being in office president Obama managed to reduce the unemployment rate to 4.2 percent and also reduce the percentage of people living below poverty to 14.5 percent. President Obama helped this country end the Great Recession, but the fact that 14.5 percent of Americans are living below the poverty line still worries me. As a team player I want to see all Americans thrive in this country and to do this we must work to decrease the amount of Americans living below the Poverty line. Unemployment rate and the rate of people living below poverty relate to each other, meaning we can only decrease the poverty rate if we increase employment in the United States. More jobs mean more workers and when both of these increase good thing

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