当代美国的社会问题.ppt

Social problems in the U.S The main social problems in the U.S can be concluded to the following aspects. 1.Poverty 2.Racial problem 3.Terrorism 4.Drug abuse 5.Gun shooting 6.Voilent crime poverty Slum in Chicago The messiest slum in the U.S South Bronx Rich peoples region in Seattle The rich regions, north of San Francisco Situation While Productivity has improved significantly in the United States since this century, but most Americans did not benefit from it, people average income declined by more than 10%. According to a recent survey, in 25 cities across the US, New York has the largest gap between rich and poor. In 2007, 1% of the wealthy new yorkers are accounting for up to 44% of the citys total revenue[rɛvənu] of income. At the same time, in 2010, the number of homeless people climbed to 113000.in New York, many women and children live in a shelter for a long time . For nearly 100 years, the gap between the rich and the poor has never been more serious: one side is 1% of the total population of happiness, the super rich, on the other side is 99% of the total population. The gap between the rich and the poor of the evidence is so positive: at present, the wealth of the 400 richest Americans possess more than 150 million Americans possess wealth combined. Accelerating economic globalization, changed the global economic structure, and the internal structure of wealth distribution and the resulting social polarization between the rich and the poor increased and the contradiction intensified. Jobs, only remaining some high-end industry positions and, because of the family situation and ethnic, Americans suffer education opportunities in front of the information technology revolution is unequal. The nature of the capitalist system was to create by squeezing the labor of surplus[sɝpləs] value, on the distribution laborers are always in a position of being exploited[ɪksplɔɪt]. Production and capital concentrated monopoly[mənɑpəli] makes the wealth of the cap