As the end of the year is fast approaching and the pandemic is still raging on after almost nine months of wreaking havoc on all aspects of American life, it’s time to reflect on the state of higher education before we head into another year.
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We live in a world mostly dominated by capitalist countries and a strong faith in the market forces of supply and demand.
We live in an age where the presidency takes on an almost imperial presence. The sheer size of the federal government, the President’s ubiquitous image, and the American people’s faith in the continuous march of democracy in the U.S.
Racial discrimination hinders economic growth. When employers refuse to hire or promote certain employees because of their ethnicity, they are not only depriving their business of valuable human capital, but by denying the employee the needed income, they are denying their community of much needed consumer spending.
Countries that lie on geopolitical fault lines often find themselves as pawns in a great game between two rival powers. We saw this during the Cold War where the rival powers of the U.S.