Summary
According to the article, we know that three urgent problems the US is facing now. Firstly, one in seven people were living in poverty. Secondly, IMF cut the country’s growth forecast for 2016 to 2.2% from a previous prediction of 2.4%. Thirdly, unemployment figures showed the rate at an eight-year low of 4.7%; nevertheless, IMF also gives the US government some solution, invest more in education, improve social programmes such as childcare to help poorer Americans get jobs.
Opinion
As far as I am concerned, I think the US government should improve social programmes and invest more in education. And I have two reasons to support my opinion. First of all, as the economist John Maynard Keynes said, improve public works will help people get jobs because unemployment is very low, improve public works deserve to take care of. Additionally, as we know, in the US, a lot of students can’t go to university, since they don’t have adequate money to join, so, the only way is scholarships, but join the US army is the condition of scholarship, and when you finished, you can go back to university to study; nevertheless, a lot of soldiers got a psychological problem in the life of the army, thus those students can’t back to study, and I think it’s a danger signal for the US.