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Transcript: International trade agreements caused worry for American workers because some jobs might be taken to other countries that produce the same goods but at a lower cost than the US. This led to a higher unemployment rate in the US. NAFTA also makes exports and imports free trade not fair trade. Fair trade takes into account wages, working conditions & environments. This is the History of the NASDAQ/The Economy. p.869 Immigration began to soar with different people from all over the world coming to the United States in bunches. More people from more different parts of the world immigrated to America. Between 197 and 2010 the population grew over 100 million. Now more people with different backgrounds shared a place to live, and enhanced the United States diversity levels. With America now being much more diverse some ty groups began to face problems. Certain groups saw rise in suicide rates, and alcoholism rates. Legal battles for these minorty groups helped to lessen the damages. But THe United States ill struggles with diversity problems. The immigration in this time period represeents diversity because it resulted in many new ethnic groups coming to America A big change during the 90’s was that the United States of America was aging. The median age had raised 4 years between 1990 and 2008. And because of this there were a lot of changes in the culture of the united states, and there were new demands for health care of the elderly. This change was important because it played a role in the changes of healthcare policy. In 1995 programs that provided care for the elderly only made up 6% of the national budget. But by 2010 it had become more than one third of the national budget. These changes align with the theme of demographic change. because the changes in things like birth rate, death rate, and life expectancy caused a shift in the demographic of the United States. And brought changes to policy Diversity Science & Technology By: Aubrey, Graciela, Patrick, and Ethan "Blue Theme" p. 860 Political Comic strip from side walk web page Reform President Clinton presented the health care reform bill to congress in September 1993, Congress debate plan for 1 yr the congress never voted on the bill.Republican attacks on plan for promoting “Big Government” Bill Clinton was important to life in the 90s because he presented this plan to the congress with his wife Hillary Clinton . Pg 861- 862 Foreign Policy Yugoslavia broke into 5 nations, Bosnia - one of the five began “ethnic cleansing” led by Serb militias and killed people of certain ethnic groups. In 1995- Clinton sent US troops to join NATO troops to force Serbians to step down, Also for NATO to ensure the peace agreement afterwords. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) invites Mexico into a free-trade zone which the US and Canada had already been using. The NAFTA policy was supposed to strengthen all 3 economies and make more American jobs. Although, many jobs moved to Mexico because of the lower wages of Mexicans. American entrepreneurs would have to pay mexican workers less than american workers (The NAFTA contract was signed in 1993). During the election of Bill Clinton he promised to move away from Traditional Democratic policies. Clinton wanted to Modernize liberalism by doing so he created a new Democratic party. Bill Clinton was important to life in the 90s because he Led in a more Moderate direction Vowing to strengthen the nation’s weak economy. Bill clinton's Presidency illustrates the theme because it has everything to do with politics and government. Ch 26 pg 860- 861 Bill Clinton is waste all of the goverments money buy trying to reform Fossil fuels have been provided energy for years but soon there won't be anymore. Sientic and engineers have been trying to find a alternative for gasoline. Alternative energy is energy generated in ways that do not cause natural harm to the environment. People have built alternative cars for example a solar powered car, also a vegetable oil car. Air pollution is definitely damaging the earth, people are trying to reduce the nation's dependence on fossil fuels. Tesla is a car company that fuel their cars by renewable energy, solar,wind,hydroelectric,etc Fossil fuels had made a big impact in the world and not for the better they have damaged it very much but there is some cons in 2007 recycling saved energy= nearly 11 billion gallons of gasoline. Environment Demographic Change In the 1990s entrepreneurs turned innovative ideas about computer technology into huge fortunes (which were inspired by Bill Gates, who founded Microsoft). National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation System (NASDAQ) was a technology-dominated stock index. NASDAQ was the start of internet and dotcoms, (.com), this was called “The New Economy” where the flow of business from companies could work directly with consumers or other companies. This image represents my theme because Bill Clinton is the main person in the theme
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