To me, these three are huge issues.
The amount of debt the average student has to go into just to attend college is ridiculous. Now it's almost required to go to college if you want to have a stable, secure, and reliable job that offers good benefits and a decent retirement plan.
Climate change is incredibly important to me: states going into droughts, states being flooded like they've never been flooded before, changing ocean temperatures, animals going extinct; we need this world (all aspects of it) in order to survive and we're slowly losing it.
Income and wealth inequality: oh don't even get me started on that. The fact that some people's pets live a better life than some people is just sickening to me. I have never understood the need to have multi-million dollar homes where there are so many rooms that the owners don't even know what to do with it.
(Side note: if I were to ever get rich I would have a master bed and bath, a living room, dinning room, kitchen, a bedroom for each kid, and a bathroom to share. The only thing I would "splurge" on would be maybe a theatre room or a game room with a pool table. I could be perfectly happy and fine in that. Why do I need rooms that simply hold pictures when there are people who don't even have a roof over their heads)
Also, if a person is working two jobs full-time and trying to get by, why should they have to suffer and be constantly on the edge of losing everything. I'm not necessarily saying that "burger flippers" should get $15: I know that elementary school teachers make on average $15.67 per hour and high school teacher's make on average $20.51 per hour; I know that paramedics make an average of $16.00 per hour; I know that caregivers make an average of $10.00 per hour; I know that all of these jobs are crucial.
As a teacher's kid I know how much work teachers put into their jobs (most teachers, granted not all). They spend hours grading homework or quizzes or tests; they spend hours making lesson plans; they spend hours finding/making worksheets or supplementary items for the kids; they spend their own money to buy new books/scissors/paper/pencils/etc. and all of that is their own time outside of the school/work hours. And yet, these are the people that we respect/trust to teach our children the necessary skills in this world (reading, writing, mathematics, history, and science).
Do I need to even explain how important paramedics and caregivers are? Without them our medical services would be severely lacking (even if we still had doctors and nurses) and their jobs aren't easy. They're working with people who's lives are at stake and caregivers especially are having to do hard labor (getting patients into and out of bed, helping them bathe, helping them move around and stay active, etc.)
The amount of debt the average student has to go into just to attend college is ridiculous. Now it's almost required to go to college if you want to have a stable, secure, and reliable job that offers good benefits and a decent retirement plan.
Climate change is incredibly important to me: states going into droughts, states being flooded like they've never been flooded before, changing ocean temperatures, animals going extinct; we need this world (all aspects of it) in order to survive and we're slowly losing it.
Income and wealth inequality: oh don't even get me started on that. The fact that some people's pets live a better life than some people is just sickening to me. I have never understood the need to have multi-million dollar homes where there are so many rooms that the owners don't even know what to do with it.
(Side note: if I were to ever get rich I would have a master bed and bath, a living room, dinning room, kitchen, a bedroom for each kid, and a bathroom to share. The only thing I would "splurge" on would be maybe a theatre room or a game room with a pool table. I could be perfectly happy and fine in that. Why do I need rooms that simply hold pictures when there are people who don't even have a roof over their heads)
Also, if a person is working two jobs full-time and trying to get by, why should they have to suffer and be constantly on the edge of losing everything. I'm not necessarily saying that "burger flippers" should get $15: I know that elementary school teachers make on average $15.67 per hour and high school teacher's make on average $20.51 per hour; I know that paramedics make an average of $16.00 per hour; I know that caregivers make an average of $10.00 per hour; I know that all of these jobs are crucial.
As a teacher's kid I know how much work teachers put into their jobs (most teachers, granted not all). They spend hours grading homework or quizzes or tests; they spend hours making lesson plans; they spend hours finding/making worksheets or supplementary items for the kids; they spend their own money to buy new books/scissors/paper/pencils/etc. and all of that is their own time outside of the school/work hours. And yet, these are the people that we respect/trust to teach our children the necessary skills in this world (reading, writing, mathematics, history, and science).
Do I need to even explain how important paramedics and caregivers are? Without them our medical services would be severely lacking (even if we still had doctors and nurses) and their jobs aren't easy. They're working with people who's lives are at stake and caregivers especially are having to do hard labor (getting patients into and out of bed, helping them bathe, helping them move around and stay active, etc.)
I'd just like to leave this here for people to look at: