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1. Inflation
Caused by decrease in the value of money. Between the 90s and now prices shot up a bit because money means so much less! Back in the day you could earn a dollar and feed your family the same day, now a day you earn a dollar a day, you'll starve. and that  is a fact!

2.Unemployment
people who are unemployed. I don't think I have to say much to help people know that theres a lot of people without jobs. Mainly cause we give them all to china. It may be going down but not fast enough.

3. Military spendings
we spend a lot on military causing more debt as we go. The reason we win so much is the money we spend into it.

4. Decline in morals and values
a decline in morals and values is not a good thing because it makes us so used to gore and stuff. One example is fortnight, a king of the hill mixed with the ground is lava were your on an island and you kill people to make yourself the last man standing in a storm that is slowly closing in.

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1.) Inflation
Just like Rome, the U.S.A has tons of inflation. If you track the gas prices over the years- In 1960 to about 1970, you could get gas for about 50 cents a gallon. Then, gas prices increased, at about 1990 to 2000, gas prices were at about a dollar 50. Now, gas prices are at about 4 bucks! That's a lot of change. I can think of a lesson that can be learned in this situation, we need to stop raising prices. The Roman Empire started to raise prices, and look where that got them. The people that couldn't afford food started to die out, and so the population started to decline.

2.)Political Corruption
In Rome, the choice for a new emperor was a debate between the old emperor, the Senate, the Praetorian Guard, and the army. In the USA, the way a new president is elected through the electorial college. The popular vote does not get to decide. Sure, the electorial college is based off of the popular vote, but, as shown in the last presidential election, the electorial college and the popular vote do not always line up. In the downfall of Rome, the Praetorian Guard ended up choosing the new emperor. Maybe the same thing will happen with the electorial college. I think the lesson that we can take from this would be that we should start electing the president from the popular vote.

3.)Decline in Morals and Values
Morals and values in the Roman Empire decreased in the end. By the time the Roman Empire fell, it's people could hardly define what it meant to be a Roman Citizen anymore. People today are quite disrespectful. If you tell a teenager to be more polite to people who are older then them, they would most likely just scoff, and go complain to people they hardly know on Face Book. A lesson that we can take from this, is that people should be more respectful. If we keep on going like this, more and more people will learn to be disrespectful, and the world will be filled with cruelness and unkindness at every bend.

4.)Public Health
In Rome, the streets were filled with nasty stuff, and probably had rats in every gutter. In our world today, all the cars are releasing carbon monoxide into the air, and that can poison good people. Our lesson from this might be that we need to take better care of the world that we live on. If we have been blessed with good air, good water, and good land to live on, then we shouldn't be poisoning it. We need to take better care of the planet that we live on.

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1. Unemployment-Though unemployment rates are lowering they are lowering slowly and there are still  6,585,000 people that are unemployed.

2. Decline in mortals and values- Kids these days....    they are so bad

3. Public Health- People are nasty

4. Naughty politicians

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Urban decay:

In some cities like Detroit, gangs, crime, and riots are a way of life. They have gotten used to the fact that they might walk out on the street and see fights everywhere

Besides the fact that cities are becoming more and more dangerous, the housing market has gone up really fast and really high. “Looking for a new Treasure Valley house priced under $200,000? They’re an endangered species. Commercial builders have stopped building them in Boise, Meridian and Eagle.” _In other words, it is almost impossible to buy a house under $200,000. With the prices so high, some people may not be able to afford houses and would be forced to live in crammed smelly, dirty, apartments.

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/business-insider/article209631409.html#storylink=cpy

Hannah Scoville

1.) Political Corruption

In the recent 2016 election, some people think Russia interfered with the votes. If that's true, are we really picking the right person to represent us? For example, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were both successfully impeached. Why did people vote for them if they weren't going to to their job as president? In campaigns, sometimes a candidate might have to lie a considerable bit to get elected.  Why would they do that? The only reason they want to be president is to gain power?

CITATION: “Impeachment in the United States.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 1 May 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States.

3.) Decline in Morals and Values

These days, our population has been exposed to to much violence and language. I In 2013, more than 2/3 of the movies released were PG13r R. Besides movies, video games are also becoming too violent. There are games where you can win by murdering and killing people. Is that how we try see entertainment? Killling?

4.) Inflation

These days, things are getting more and more expensive. A loaf of bread used to cost about 10 cents. Now it can get up to $3. With higher and higher prices, it will be harder to get the necessities. Some people will likely go into poverty and the U.S. will likely colapse.

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Jaden Waldbillig (real one) 1) Inflation  Prices have been increasing by large amounts. Now we are paying more for less food. For example, gas prices, gas prices were starting to go down but in 2018 they started to get higher again.             2)  Just like Rome we are spending a lot of money on military more than any other country. We spend 581 billion on military where the second highest amount is 129.4 billion from China.  3) Moral and Values We may not go to places to watch people fight to the death, but we do have very violent games. As time progresses violent video games are coming more popular. There are several games where you get points for killing or hurting people. These makes people more violent in real life.   " Simulating violence such as shooting guns and hand-to-hand combat in video games can cause real-life violent behavior." https://videogames.procon.org/   4) Urban Decay In Rome many people couldn't afford to live in a house which led to several homeless people making the streets filthy. In the United States we have tons of people who are homeless. In New York City alone, there are 62,692 homeless people each night in New York City Shelters as of 2017.    

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Jaden Waldbillig (real one) 1) Inflation  Prices have been increasing by large amounts. Now we are paying more for less food. For example, gas prices, gas prices were starting to go down but in 2018 they started to get higher again.             2)  Just like Rome we are spending a lot of money on military more than any other country. We spend 581 billion on military where the second highest amount is 129.4 billion from China.  3) Moral and Values We may not go to places to watch people fight to the death, but we do have very violent games. As time progresses violent video games are coming more popular. There are several games where you get points for killing or hurting people. These makes people more violent in real life.   " Simulating violence such as shooting guns and hand-to-hand combat in video games can cause real-life violent behavior." https://videogames.procon.org/   4) Urban Decay In Rome many people couldn't afford to live in a house which led to several homeless people making the streets filthy. In the United States we have tons of people who are homeless. In New York City alone, there are 62,692 homeless people each night in New York City Shelters as of 2017.    

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1. Inferior Technology

I think inferior technology was a big part of Rome, and also the U.S. In Rome, they built amazing roads, aqueducts, bridges, and also established the first system of medicine for the poor. In the U.S, we have created things like the telephone, laptop, computer, and have medical break through's as well as Rome. After a while Rome didn't have any more ideas, much like the U.S.

2. Inflation

The Roman economy had a great increase in prices after they stopped conquering other lands. The U.S has also seen a great increase in prices.

3. Decline in Morals and Values

In ancient Rome, crimes and violence filled the streets. The Emperor wasted money, and they had cruel games that were played at sporting events. I think the U.S. relates to this because, people walk down allies to fight other people. The U.S. is in a lot of debt, and some sports can cause much harm.

4.  Political Corruption

Ancient Rome had trouble electing new leaders. I don’t think the U.S. has a big problem with this, but Rome also had 20 out of 37 leaders assassinated. Some of our most famous, and not famous, presidents have also been assassinated.

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Urban decay:

In some cities like Detroit, gangs, crime, and riots are a way of life. They have gotten used to the fact that they might walk out on the street and see fights everywhere

Besides the fact that cities are becoming more and more dangerous, the housing market has gone up really fast and really high. “Looking for a new Treasure Valley house priced under $200,000? They’re an endangered species. Commercial builders have stopped building them in Boise, Meridian and Eagle.” _In other words, it is almost impossible to buy a house under $200,000. With the prices so high, some people may not be able to afford houses and would be forced to live in crammed smelly, dirty, apartments.

Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/business-insider/article209631409.html#storylink=cpy

Hannah Scoville

1.) Political Corruption

In the recent 2016 election, some people think Russia interfered with the votes. If that's true, are we really picking the right person to represent us? For example, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were both successfully impeached. Why did people vote for them if they weren't going to to their job as president? In campaigns, sometimes a candidate might have to lie a considerable bit to get elected.  Why would they do that? The only reason they want to be president is to gain power?

CITATION: “Impeachment in the United States.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 1 May 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States.

3.) Decline in Morals and Values

These days, our population has been exposed to to much violence and language. I In 2013, more than 2/3 of the movies released were PG13r R. Besides movies, video games are also becoming too violent. There are games where you can

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Matthew Martino. Decline in morals and values  The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video.    games.http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/09/11/the-bloodier-the-game-the-more/  2.)  Inferior Technology The more people that come to america the more mouths there are to feed. There is more poverty in the u.s. now than ever.  https://www.statista.com/topics/781/poverty/

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Matthew Martino. Decline in morals and values  The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video.    games.http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/09/11/the-bloodier-the-game-the-more/  2.)  Inferior Technology The more people that come to america the more mouths there are to feed. There is more poverty in the u.s. now than ever.  https://www.statista.com/topics/781/poverty/

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Political corruption
With the election in 2016 the nation was very split between democrat and republican. many people are still mad about the election. They have started protests. and we are making the Country weaker by fighting. in the last election we were so weak that Russia hacked the election.
https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/russian-election-hacking
inflation
When in Rome, they saw a lot of prices going up. no in the us, lots of prices are going up too.

https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2015/sep/3.html

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2)  Price Inflation
Ever since we have started using money of our own, we have been upping the value of things, not unlike Rome. The prices in the US have gone up and, currently are continuing to go up at a rate of 2% each year.  

3) Urban Decay
In the US urban decay is happening. The housing and rent prices are going up and people are moving out.
 

  


4)  Military Spending
If the military stopped spending money for 8 days, there would be enough to have every child in the world get 12 years of free schooling.

World military spending
I feel like the US can learn from Rome's mistakes but it will only prevent the inevitable 
Lucas Brooks 2
Lucas Brooks 2
I'm doing this at home and I can't edit my main one here. This is a resumed version of my main one.
3. Military Spending
Our country is spending millions of dollars on our defense when they don't need it. They have billions of dollars in savings.
Graph:
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Bruce Salisbury
1. Inferior Technology
As America constantly expands into the Internet, it could possibly be creating its own fall. Hackers from rival countries could possibly destroy our satellites and our ability to communicate. They then could then send several ICBMs and destroy the country of america forever. we would never had the time to react.

2.If you
Enoch Bate
Enoch Bate
1. Unemployment-Though unemployment rates are lowering they are lowering slowly and there are still  6,585,000 people that are unemployed.
2. Decline in mortals and values- Kids these days.... 

(unemployment graph) https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate

 
 
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Leo Haener-Pope
Leo Haener-Pope
1. Just like Rome, we are declining in moral values, there are more and more inappropriate video games coming up in today's society which could effect how people grow up, and their attitude towards on another.  https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/video-games-and-violence/index.html First 10 paragraphs.
2. America is dealing with inflation problems, pricing are rising, and it could cause problems. This 

Trinity Gillispie
Trinity Gillispie
1) Inflation
Over time, things have been getting more expensive. "It costs more than ever to buy a home. In 1940, the median home valuein the U.S. was $2,938. In 1980, it was $47,200, and by 2000, it had risen to $119,600. Even adjusted for inflation, the median home price in 1940 would only have been $30,600 in 2000 dollars.That's partly why the typical homebuyer is now 44, whereas in 1981, the typical homebuyer was 25-34"  (Emmie Martin, June 2017) People can't afford things as easily as we used to. Homes and other necessities are much more expensive than what they used to be.
2) Decline in Morals and Values
People are becoming more violent. We don't have outrageous punishments for committing a crime anymore, but we've had quite a number of mass shootings, that its not even surprising anymore. People will want to blame video games, but that's not the thing to blame. I really don't have anything to blame. But, people aren't as surprised when we hear about  another mass shooting. We've just stopped being as surprised. 

Matthew Martino
Matthew Martino
1. Decline in morals and values 
 
The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video games

 
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Matthew Martino
1. Decline in morals and values 
 
The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video games.http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/09/11/the-bloodier-the-game-the-more/

 2.)  Inferior Technology 

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Leo Haener-Pope
Leo Haener-Pope
1. Just like Rome, we are declining in moral values, there are more and more inappropriate video games coming up in today's society which could effect how people grow up, and their attitude towards on another.  https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/video-games-and-violence/index.html First 10 paragraphs.
2. America is dealing with inflation problems. A lot of times, prices suddenly burst up, then gradually go back down. The stock market is being affected very badly.

Matthew P. Nicholes
Matthew P. Nicholes
1. Trump is spending more money than the president has ever spent to make our army better: $686 billion. He is starting to do the eighth thing Rome did: Military spending, draining us with his taxes and wasting his money on an already good army. Info from:
http://fortune.com/2018/02/12/trump-military-budget/
2. Political Corruption is present in today's society, as Trump is corrupt and destroying our good allies (*cough* Mexico *cough*).
3. 
4. Not sure yet.
5. Too many honey cakes made them too fat to fight. We have too much pizza. We can't fight Korea!
Liam Gabbard
Liam Gabbard
1. Decline in morals and values is one of the biggest problems because of what people have gotten themselves into. The video games and TV shows that we call entertainment have simply gotten out of hand. Nowadays, people literally think that they are in the video game they played, and they go insane.
Colten Bullington
Colten Bullington
#1 Inflammation 
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Tess Campbell
Tess Campbell
1. Decline of morals and values.
When I say decline, I mean decline! The video games and movies we watch are becoming so corrupt that I would think that all we think about is murder and other bad stuff. What I mean is that there are movies about explosions and evil murderers(luckily I have never seen any.  I have only seen the adds). For example, based on what I have heard about one very popular video game, you get more points for the more people you murder. Insane! 
2. Military spending
When you think about, the U.S.A. has a very large and rich military.  Why?  
Brooklyn Smith
Brooklyn Smith
1. Unemployment
I think unemployment is a problem because many people in America don't have jobs. Sometimes it can be hard to find a job opportunity
Samantha Hoopes
Samantha Hoopes
1) Decline in moral values
A big problem in USA right now is our decline in moral values. Children of our society today  often play violent or
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Victoria Metzler
Victoria Metzler
 1.  Decline in morals and values is a problem because of violent video games and media.  There is a lot of games that have 
Evidence:
Elle Hamaker
Elle Hamaker
1.  Decline in Morals and Value 
In America, we have video games and movies all about crime and violence. They have games where you get points to kill, beat up, or hurt people. This is tons of violence and crime that is exposed to very young kids. It is causing more violence in the US because kids think it's okay to kill, beat up, and hurt people. This is a big problem in the US and it is making the crime go up A LOT. Below is a chart that shows the more kids play violent video games, the more violent kids become.  
Mia Wang
Mia Wang
1. Decline in Morals and Values
Think about the last time you saw a movie or played a video game that had any type of violence in it. Seeing violence through games and movies seems normal to most people, but that is exactly the problem. 
Hannah Scoville
Hannah Scoville
1.) Political Corruption

     In the recent 2016 election, some people think Russia interfered with the votes. If that's true, are we really picking the right person to represent us? For example, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were both successfully impeached. Why did people vote for them if they weren't going to to their job as president? In campaigns, sometimes a candidate might have to lie a considerable bit to get elected.  Why would they do that? The only reason they want to be president is to gain power? 

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Bekah Barton
Bekah Barton
1. Unemployment
I think one of the problems in the U.S. is that there are many people that don't get jobs, there are even many people that don't even graduate college. So many people each year do not get good jobs because they do not get a good education and many do not get a good education, so in turn, they do not get a good job (see picture at bottom).
2. Political Corruption

Jora Kurland
Jora Kurland
1) Decline in Morals and Values
People used to dress reasonably and speak with respect, not anymore. You will not see any kids talking with respect. People shave their heads and wear clothes that are very inappropriate for school
Evidence:  

 All this proves is that only 75% of companies provide dress codes. People are not even "supposed" to wear business attire.
Lily Hoellwarth
Lily Hoellwarth
1. Inferior Technology
I think inferior technology was a big part of Rome, and also the U.S. In Rome, they built amazing roads, aqueducts, bridges, and also established the first system of medicine for the poor. In the U.S, we have created things like the telephone, laptop, computer, and have medical break through's as well as Rome. After a while Rome didn't have any more ideas, much like the U.S.
    

 2. Inflation
The Roman economy had a great increase in prices after they stopped conquering other lands. The U.S has also seen a great increase in prices
Lucas Coltrin
Lucas Coltrin
1. Decline in Moral Values.
 

 Look at how many rated R movie to rated G movies there are. There are so many more violent movies now and that is bad. That is a sign that people who watch movies are going to watch more rated R and PG13 movies. That could also mean that PG13 movies are getting more violent and lots of kids watch PG13 movies so that could be like exposing them to R rated movies at 13 or under.
2. Unemployment 

 While the unemployment rate is decreasing, a 4.5% as of last year is not a good thing. That means that about 14 million people are unemployed in the USA. The other problem is the machines are becoming able to do jobs better than we can. This could be one of the lead
Henry J. Leonard
Henry J. Leonard
1. I say that one way that the United States will fall is through inflation. Inflation may be slow, but in the near future, it will be costly, and we may have to leave the United States. Also, inflation could cause governments to stop working, because no one will buy their products. The U.S. will have a crisis, then will fall. Take a pack of gum, for instance. A pack of gum use to cost,back in 1945,$0.05. Now, in the present day, it is nearly $1.10
2. Another reason I think that the U.S. will fall is unemployment. Unemployment has caused Spain, a once thriving country, to die down. The figures say that there is a %62 unemployment in Spain. The U.S. could suffer from the same problem. Some people are fine with this, so they can relax, but think about how they would get their money to feed them and probably their kids.
3. The third reason I reckon that the U.S. will fall is probably morals and value. Because we are a strong nation, people might think that it is okay to mock other people beliefs and religions. If other people started mocking and laughing at people beliefs, the
4. The last thing that might cause the fall of the United States is inferior technology. As it says in the link:  However,  "the Romans relied so much on human and animal labor, [that] they failed to invent many new machines or find new technology to produce goods more efficiently." This was one of the reasons why Rome fell. Could it happen to us?  To find this information, go to these websites: 
1. https://www.investopedia.com/university/inflation/inflation1.asp

 2. https://www.google.com/search?q=percent+of+unemployment+in+spain&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS781US784&oq=percent+of+unemployment+in+sp&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.13036j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&surl=1&safe=active
3.  http://changingminds.org/explanations/values/values_morals_ethics.htm
 4. see down http://teachers.yale.edu/curriculum/viewer/initiative_08.03.07_u
Jared Wasden
Jared Wasden
1. Inferior Technology is a huge part of both the old and the new era. They could build amazing things but they couldn't provide enough goods for the entire population. It's the same with today. We can not produce a lot of the technology we have created because each one takes so much money to create them we don't have enough money to keep producing them. " Technologies with this property of perpetual self-accelerated development--sometimes termed "autocatalysis"--create conditions that are unstable, unpredictable and unreliable. And since these particular autocatalytic technologies drive whole sectors of society, there is a risk that civilization itself may become unstable, unpredictable and unreliable. " http://longnow.org/essays/technology-moving-too-fast/
2. Inflation is also a huge part of both the Roman and our society.  There were losses in their money value. This eventually later turned into bartering instead of you using a distinctive coin that holds its value. Our coins hold our value but the increase of prices is incredible. For example the U.S. has inflation rates that  are rasing every year. 

 https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi
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Samuel Joseph Whiting
Samuel Joseph Whiting
Political Corruption
1. Back then they didn't set up a strong system to pick a new leader so sometimes they would sell the throne to the highest bidder. Today, some people bribe others to vote for them.
2.In ancient Rome, the emperor may be assassinated because of something, and that can also happen in america to the president.
Amelia Farr
Amelia Farr
1. Decline in Morals and Values
I think that Decline in Morals and Values might happen to the U.S the same way that it happened to Rome. The people in Rome started to enjoy watching people die. In the U.S today, people die in video games all of the time. In some games, you can get extra points just for killing people.
2. Public Health
3. Inflation
4. Urban Decay
Anna Waters
Anna Waters
 1. I think that Decline in Morals and Values is could happen to the US. Cyber bulling is leading to out of control anger, depression, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide. 

 
Abigail Takeuchi
Abigail Takeuchi
1. Decline in Morals and Values is a huge problem we face today. According to Bullying Statistics, suicide is the third leading cause of death among teenagers today. Bullying Statistics says " resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year, according to the CDC. For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Over 14 percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7 percent have attempted it. "http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/bullying-and-suicide.html
2. Political Corruption is another huge problem. Politics have become such a hot topic. People have been getting too aggressive. One of the biggest problems is campaigning problem.
Dylan Price
Dylan Price
1)I think that are morals are decreasing very fast. The Romans enjoyed watching criminals fight to the death. Today we find it entertaining to play games that involve murder. 

 2) Inflation. If you take the amount of money it took to buy something small like a baseball 20 years ago to now, it is very different.  

3) 
Elyse Shurbet
Elyse Shurbet
1) Inflation-
The economy has crashed in america multiple times. When it does, it effects us greatly. The Great Depression was even caused by a crash in the economy. 


2) Decline in Morals and Values-
There is too many video games with violence where you get rewarded for killing things. Take fortnite for example. It's rating is 13+ but people way younger that are playing it and loving the deaths that they cause in-game.
Sources: 
1. https://www.thebalance.com/how-is-the-economy-doing-3306046 and http://www.cland.k12.ky.us/userfiles/13/Classes/441/5 causes of the great depression.pdf?id=8459 and https://tradingeconomics.com/charts/facebook.png?url=/united-states/unemployment-rate
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Jackson Wickard
Jackson Wickard
1. Inflation- Imagine going to a fast food restaurant. Would you want the big hamburger(refer to the picture) or the small hamburger. This is how inflation has acted.
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Mori Kurland
Mori Kurland
1.Inflation: According to the source below allsalary rates are going down. SOURCE: https://www.bls.gov/regions/southwest/news-release/minimumwageworkers_texas.htm 

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Emmie Lind
Emmie Lind
Our money is spent on things that do not benefit us in healthy ways. Taxes are being raised. Immigration allows people to travel in and out of the country, but diseases can be brought into America, causing epidemics of plagues. Some political leaders are not qualified to lead the U.S.A., causing disruption among states. Jobs are now needing more experienced employees, causing many people to go into unemployment.
Ana Callens
Ana Callens
1. The decline of moral values in the USA is practically an updated version of the drop in moral values of Rome. Like the gladiator games and violent video games. In  
the gladiator games  people came to watch people kill each other just like how in some video games you get points for killing people.
2. Military spending. the USA has been putting off funding for scientific studies that could stop diseases and many deaths and putting it to war just like the Romans did.
3. Inflation. Prices for thing have  rapidly increased over the pasted few years. If Prices keep rising soon no one ill be able to afford food or close.
4.  Political Corruption. I don't think i need to talk about this mush so here.
https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_in_the_usa_the_difference_a_year_makes also cuz it is so controversial right now
 

Brooklyn Searle
Brooklyn Searle
1.  Inflation
Many things have gone up in price over the years like recently the battery on my Xbox died and before it was $2.00 but now it is $20.00.
2. Urban Decay
Most poor people 
Rebecca Hopper
Rebecca Hopper
1- Political Corruption
Politicians have become very corrupt and unprofessional. The public can't handle it if who they voted for didn't win. It's just pathetic. This site explains: https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_in_the_usa_the_difference_a_year_makes
2- Decline in Morals and Values
http://news.gallup.com/poll/210917/views-moral-values-slip-seven-year-lows.aspx
says that 77% of people think America's morals and values are getting worse, 81% think the are currently fair of poor. Things that are happening today would not have happened as much as they would in our parent's childhood, such as violent video games, homosexuality, and the decline of respect to most adults today.
3- Inferior Technology
Today, one single cell phone can cost as much as $1,000 from apple and many other places. the price is so high because we are becoming shorter on resources needed to make all of this technology that we have invented.

Landon Jensen
Landon Jensen
1. Public Health decreasing
public health is decreasing  more people are getting sick every year and more people have died. we are getting less healthy and less healthier the U.S. public health funding steadily falling, new study shows  "By 2014, public health funding had plummeted 17 percent from 2002 levels (a 9.3 percent drop since 2008) with just 2.65 percent of total health spending, or $255 per capital, devoted to public health initiatives like smoking cessation and disease prevention. That adds up to a $40.2 billion loss of funds that could have been devoted to public health between 2009 and 2014, the study authors said."
2. Military Spending 
we are spending way too much on border defense because that trump wants to build his wall the estimated cost is 70 billion dollars that is for the military for illegal immigration.
3 
Samuel Joseph Whiting
Samuel Joseph Whiting
1. Unemployment is a problem that is definitely a problem in today's society, because there are so many people, and only so many job opportunities, which was also a big problem when rome was struggling as well as when it was prospering. (Discovery ED)
2. Some jobs were life-long, so that took away job opportunities for people. Unemployment was very wide-spread and there could be 10,000 unemployed people in one city.https://prezi.com/0dczdwtwb3dn/the-fall-of-rome-unemployment/
3. In ancient Rome, they like to conquer many places, which made their population of their empire grow, making more people who needed jobs, as well as having to pay their taxes. In today's society, we have a lot of immigrants coming into America all the time which has the same effect.
4. In Rome they had large amounts of taxes, which made it so some people couldn't pay for a home and stuff, and that is the case sometimes here in modern America. (Discovery ED)
Hailee Clark
Hailee Clark
1) Public Health
I think public health was a problem in Rome because the wealthy death rate was very high.
This may happen to the US if we are not careful about our water, our # of people living on the street, and our alcohol usage. 
2) Political Corruption
I think political corruption was an important factor in Rome's fall because they couldn't choose a leader very well, and without a leader, the country can't run. The US has problems voting sometimes because it takes a VERY long time to vote and people argue about who to vote for VERY seriously. This could be quite a problem
Brooklyn Lewis
Brooklyn Lewis
1.) Unemployment was a big part of Rome and becoming a part of the United States. All of the people that need work get offered the worst jobs. In Rome the farmers weren't getting paid enough so soon there weren't enough farmers left to feed Rome and they had to import food. The current unemployment rate is 4.1% according to  Bureau of Labor Statistics, Eurostat. 
2.) Inflation
3.) Public Health
4.) Decline in Morals and Value is a common occurrence today. According to  http://news.gallup.com/poll/210917/views-moral-values-slip-seven-year-lows.aspx  "77% say state of morals and values is getting worse." Just like the Romans and their galdiator combats,  the US is producing violent videogames and movies.
Lorien Williamson
Lorien Williamson
1) Decline in Moral Values
Video games that promote violence is one thing that is happening today, and with more and more gun violence, in the last year over 307 shootings have occurred, injuring 5 or more people almost every time. Also these games promote alcohol and drug usage.  
2) Political Corruption
This is another big problem in the US, just like in Rome we also have difficult times choosing our government officials and other important roles. Lots of times there might be cheating or they might mess with the voting system.
3) Unemployment
I think that is is another very large problem. When citizens stop working, they lose homes and if they can not find another job they beg on the streets. This is true for both Rome and the US, the US with more than half a million. This can also increase the crime rate for food and money.
4) Inflation
One example of this is when 
Kayla Broadhead
Kayla Broadhead
1 Urban Decay
2 unemployment
3 Political Corruption I think Political Corruption is a big deal because everyone (or so it seems) just want power. One thing I've seen a lot since the Primary election is in process, is that the people running are trying to bring down the other candidates. " I have been seeing the attack ads " (http://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article207761579.html)
4 Inflation The inflation rate plays an important role in determining the health of an economy. Countries with extremely high inflation rates are said to have hyperinflation and when this occurs the economy is often near collapse. https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp?reloaded=truehttps://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp?reloaded=true
Kara-Elise Grossman
Kara-Elise Grossman
1. Political corruption
I think political corruption was a big factor in the fall of Rome and can be a big factor today. lots of people just want to become in power for their own purposes. a lot of people like the idea of being powerful.
2 unemployment was a big factor in Rome, and a big factor today some people are very rich, and live in big houses, while other people are poor. in fact more people are poor than rich. a lot of people don't want to work and rely on cheeseburgers from McDonald's, and get fat 
3. inflation today prices have gone up you used to be able to get a soda for 20 cents but today you can get it for 1$
also coffee from Starbucks is expensive JUST GET PLAIN BLACK COFFEE.
4.

Madero Tassi
Madero Tassi
1.)Inflation
 "January and February 2012 is a perfect example, according to the government statistics both months had inflation rates of 2.9%. However, our data shows inflation in January as 2.93% and in February  as 2.87%. Therefore instead of the inflation rate being "flat" it is actually falling slightly. Of course this could just be a statistical anomaly but..." https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp?reloaded=true
2.) Military Spending
  military spending is projected to account for 54 percent of all federal discretionary spending, a total of $598.5 billion. 
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/military-spending-united-states/
3.)Unemployment
The US unemployment rate stood at a 17-year low of 4.1 percent for the sixth consecutive month in March 2018, slightly above market expectations of 4 percent. The number of unemployed decreased by 121 thousand to 6.59 million and employment fell 37 thousand to 155.18 million. The labor force participation rate dropped to 62.9 percent from a five-month high of 63 percent in February. Unemployment Rate in the United States averaged 5.78 percent from 1948 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 10.80 percent in November of 1982 and a record low of 2.50 percent in May of 1953. 
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate
4.)Public Health
 Americans are below average on most measures of health — from obesity to infant mortality — when compared with other rich countries, and they're falling behind on lifespan, too, according to the latest survey. 
https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/were-no-26-us-below-average-most-health-measures-2D11635080
Lucas Brooks
Lucas Brooks
Political Corruption is a big problem today because the government is fighting inwardly and for it's own benefit. They are not listening to the people as much as they should.
Decline in Moral Values is another problem because there is too many violent realistic games about killing people and there is more shootings. According to BBC, there were 372 mass shootings in the US in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870. 
Military Spending
Ava Gross
Ava Gross
1) Decline in morals and values.
One piece of evidence supporting this claim is that as more people play things such as video games and watch movies that romanticize drug use, more and more people start to abuse drugs. For example, in 1999 only about 7 million people were using illegal cannabis but in 2008 11.1 million people started to abuse cannibas.https://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WDR_2010/2.0_Drug_statistics_and_Trends.pdf
2) Military spending.
One example of excessive military spending is the US. In 2015 over (54%)598 billion dollars of the federal discretionary funds were used on Military, whereas only 100 billion dollars were used on Transportation and Education combined. https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/military-spending-united-states/
3) Inflation
https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/12-fast-food-prices-then-versus-now/
Bodin Champion
Bodin Champion
1.  Urban Decay there are many people living in poverty. There are currently 43.1 million people living in poverty in the US according to poverty.ucdavis.edu and with many people living in small houses or no houses our economy is slowly falling apart.
2. Unemployment
In the US 4.1% of the people are unemployed according to Bureau of Labor Statistics.
3. Military Spending The US is spending way more money than other countries. The US spends 611 billion dollars in defense while other countries combined only use 595 billion
4. Political corruption
Trumps wall will cost about 70 billion dollars to build and 150 million dollars a year to maintain. This is a pointless wall that will cause more war. www.nytimes.com

  www.pgpf.org Military Spending
Jaycen Koffer
Jaycen Koffer
1 video games are encouraging bad behavior and crimes. for example, the game GTA 5 encourages young children to commit crimes
2inflation is happening, for example , trumps wall will cost about 7 billion dollars to build
3 bread used to be  1$ a loaf and it costs about 5$ now
4sodas used to be 50cents, and now they're like 8$
Grace Johnson
Grace Johnson
1.) Decline in moral values
Crimes and violence are a big problem to the USA
2.) Unemployment
Because people loose their jobs, they also loose their homes and money
3.) Political Corruption
A lot of the Presidents got assassinated, like the Roman Emperors. But empowerment can overpower a person, like a lot of Romans.
4.) Public Health
There are many health problems that the USA has. Because of unemployment, poverty, and taxes, not everyone has good health. The Romans had a very bad lack of hygiene
Gwendolyn Nelson
Gwendolyn Nelson
1)Decline in Morals and Value
 Modern media like video games, movies, TV, and even some literature has definitely been desensitizing the USA to violence. The Romans also desensitized themselves to violence by watching the gladiator contests. Video games themselves may not cause violence, but they get us used to it.
Source: National Center for Health Research (NCHR)
2)Unemployment
The unemployment rates in the USA have gone down, and are at 4.1% as of February 2018, which is unlike Rome, that had a very big problem with unemployment in the decline of its empire. 
Source: US Department of labor statistics
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Samantha Hoopes
Samantha Hoopes
1)Decline in moral values

Zoe Phillips
Zoe Phillips
1. Political corruption.
In the United States, we are electing people into government who do nothing to support our country. They may have a specific view, but they don't see how it is effecting the general public. Take President Trump's idea of the boarder wall. He was wanting to build a large wall on the boarder of Mexico and the United States, which would not only cost a lot of money, but could be disruptive to the ability to get past to Mexico from the United States. Our politicians aren't as bright as we see them, either. Take for example, the 2016 election, where Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton went off face to face. They threw each other down and made staged promises to the country in order to win, and we still elected a corrupted person, though there was no other route. We need more people who will not ruin our country to run it, not children in grown bodies.
2. Military Spending
Another problem is using a majority of military funds on things we may not even need. I mean, now the POTUS(President of the United States) has banned transgender persons from joining the military because "They cost too much to be able to take care of
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Jaden Waldbillig
Jaden Waldbillig
1) Inflation 
Prices have been increasing by large amounts. No we are paying more for less food. For example gas prices, gas prices were starting to go down but in 2018 they started to get higher again.
  

 2)  Just like Rome we are spending a lot of money on military 

 
Garrett Hunke
Garrett Hunke
1 Public Health
 Rome suffered terrible strains of disease due to their lack of hygiene. I feel we are falling into the same loop, but we are being much sneakier about it. We are also a bit more brash about it.I found a chart depicting the results of a poll where people were asked where they have, err, relieved themselves. (see chart 1 )
 2  Political Corruption
    Let's face it. The elections here in the  U.S that aren't as honest as we think they are. Also, the politicians are getting wild with the attempt of winning.  

 3 Urban Decay
Jack Swanson
Jack Swanson
1. Unemployment has been a very big problem over the past couple of years. With Robots being invented to do jobs more efficient than humans. We have managed to get the rate down but eventually if we don't do anything about this then the people earning barely enough money to supply for their families. This happened in Rome also, The farmers couldn't afford to keep their workers and be able  to keep up with the people who used slaves to work and not pay them.
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000   This shows that we have been able to get unemployment down but it still is there.
2.) Political Corruption
We have had problems for many years about Political Corruption, with 

   
LEO Haener-Pope
LEO Haener-Pope
1. The U.S. is having a HUGE unemployment rate, just like Rome. The U.S. recently has over the past few years been decreasing the unemployment rate, but, in January, there was a major bump. This is a very big problem that could lead to the fall of the U.S.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
2. Political Corruption is beginning to happen in the United States. People have been showing some revolt into paying the government, saying that they pay the government through taxes. https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/event-summary-political-corruption-in-the-united-states-and-around-the-globe/
Lucy Porter
Lucy Porter
1)  Unemployment
Similarly to Rome, the unemployment rates of the US have been going up. However in the US it is because machines have been taking over jobs that people have done previously. 

2)  Price Inflation
Ever since we have started using money of our own, we have been upping the value of things, not unlike Rome. The prices in the US have gone up and, currently are continuing to go up at a rate of 2% each year.  

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Henry Williamson
Henry Williamson
1) Decline in Morals and Value
     There are video games and movies that are lowering morals and value by desensitizing people into thinking violence is okay and introducing people into porn.
   " Blood and gore. Intense violence. Strong sexual content. Use of drugs. These are just a few of the phrases that the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) uses to describe the content of several games in the Grand Theft Auto series, one of the most popular video game series among teenagers."
https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/violent-video-games-and-young-people
2) Inflation
     Inflation is growing in the U.S. and in 2013, prices were 22.75 times greater than in 1913. These higher prices will cause poverty in America.

  3) Unemployment
    Unemployment is a big problem in America with

 
Trinity Gillispie
Trinity Gillispie
1) Inflation
Over time, things have been getting more expensive. "It costs more than ever to buy a home. In 1940, the median home valuein the U.S. was $2,938. In 1980, it was $47,200, and by 2000, it had risen to $119,600. Even adjusted for inflation, the median home price in 1940 would only have been $30,600 in 2000 dollars.That's partly why the typical homebuyer is now 44, whereas in 1981, the typical homebuyer was 25-34"  (Emmie Martin, June 2017) People can't afford things as easily as we used to. Homes and other necessities are much more expensive than what they used to be.

2) Decline in Morals and Values
People are becoming more violent. We don't have outrageous punishments for committing a crime anymore, but we've had quite a number of mass shootings, that its not even surprising anymore. People will want to blame video games, but that's not the thing to blame. I really don't have anything to blame. But, people aren't as surprised when we hear about  another mass shooting. We've just stopped being as surprised. People are even viewing us as worse than what we used to be.  In this graph, you can see that people think our morals and values are  poor.

 

Max Curtis Spieser
Max Curtis Spieser
1.Inferior Technology is a big problem in the U.S., I mean, if your sink was broken, you wouldn't do it yourself, you would call someone else to do it. AND WE DO NOT NEED A NEW I PHONE VERY THREE MONTHS. We waste so much time on unneeded comforts.
2.Political Corruption is a very big thing and I think it should be stopped before everyone suffers. The presidents that have been elected in the past few decades are some of the worst, wasting money and angering neighboring countries.
3. Decline in Morals and values is a big problem as well. We play video games and watch movies with so much gore and death, it's becoming a problem. Our lives have become so emerged in thee blood fests, that we barley respond to it anymore.
4. Inflation is a problem as big and as bad as the others, I just chose to do it last. But we have been upgrading our prices since we started to use money of our own in the U.S., we have things so expensive that the rich still need to work. We, (also like Rome), Are suffering from large amounts of inflation.  

 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8c/US_Historical_Inflation.svg
 
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Leo Haener-Pope
Leo Haener-Pope
1. Just like Rome, we are declining in moral values, there are more and more inappropriate video games coming up in today's society which could effect how people grow up, and their attitude towards on another.  https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/video-games-and-violence/index.html First 10 paragraphs.
2. America is dealing with inflation problems, pricing are rising, and it could cause problems. This 

Trinity Gillispie
Trinity Gillispie
1) Inflation
Over time, things have been getting more expensive. "It costs more than ever to buy a home. In 1940, the median home valuein the U.S. was $2,938. In 1980, it was $47,200, and by 2000, it had risen to $119,600. Even adjusted for inflation, the median home price in 1940 would only have been $30,600 in 2000 dollars.That's partly why the typical homebuyer is now 44, whereas in 1981, the typical homebuyer was 25-34"  (Emmie Martin, June 2017) People can't afford things as easily as we used to. Homes and other necessities are much more expensive than what they used to be.
2) Decline in Morals and Values
People are becoming more violent. We don't have outrageous punishments for committing a crime anymore, but we've had quite a number of mass shootings, that its not even surprising anymore. People will want to blame video games, but that's not the thing to blame. I really don't have anything to blame. But, people aren't as surprised when we hear about  another mass shooting. We've just stopped being as surprised. 

Matthew Martino
Matthew Martino
1. Decline in morals and values 
 
The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video games

 
Bruce Salisbury
Bruce Salisbury
1. Inferior Technology
As America constantly expands into the Internet, it could possibly be creating its own fall. Hackers from rival countries could possibly destroy our satellites and our ability to communicate. They then could then send several ICBMs and destroy the country of america forever. we would never had the time to react.

2.If you've ever seen Wall-E you may have known that the people were quite obese. That could be the future of the human race.  

as you can see there are the most overweight people 
Matthew Martino
Matthew Martino

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Here's the graph for urban decay: (see bottom graph)
4 Decrease in Technology
This is probably the sneakiest problem of them all. Rather than we downgrading to worse technology, we actually are becoming so advanced that most people can't keep up. We don't understand the new technology, so we don't use it properly, damaging the technology and ourselves.

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Jared Wasden (REAL, don't read my other one)

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1. Inferior Technology is a huge part of both the old and the new era. They could build amazing things but they couldn't provide enough goods for the entire population. It's the same with today. We can not produce a lot of the technology we have created because each one takes so much money to create them we don't have enough money to keep producing them. " Technologies with this property of perpetual self-accelerated development--sometimes termed "autocatalysis"--create conditions that are unstable, unpredictable and unreliable. And since these particular autocatalytic technologies drive whole sectors of society, there is a risk that civilization itself may become unstable, unpredictable and unreliable. " http://longnow.org/essays/technology-moving-too-fast/
2. Inflation is also a huge part of both the Roman and our society.  There were losses in their money value. This eventually later turned into bartering instead of you using a distinctive coin that holds its value. Our coins hold our value but the increase of prices is incredible. For example the U.S. has inflation rates that  are rasing every year.

https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi
3. Decline in Morals and Values is also a lot of what is happening to in this era and in the last era. We both have violence for fun whether it is in a video game where you shoot people for fun and you get rewards for it or it can be in real life and they could still do it for fun. This in my eyes is a real decline of morals and values. The Kentucky state Governor said "We can’t celebrate death in video games, celebrate death in TV shows, celebrate death in movies, celebrate death in musical lyrics and remove any sense of morality and sense of higher authority and then expect that things like this are not going to happen." https://theconversation.com/its-time-to-end-the-debate-about-video-games-and-violence-91607
Here are charts from another source. They have checked to make sure that these were not just coincidences.      https://www.polygon.com/2014/9/12/6141515/do-violent-video-games-actually-reduce-real-world-crime
4. Urban Decay is also a lot in common with some of the third world countries. People in the Africa, for example, are really poor but there is always those people who are really rich and live in nice, fancy, and spacious houses right next to the poor people.   There is an example of the houses they had to live in. They were unclean, dirty, and not very easy to live in, not to mention dangerous.

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Lily Hoellwarth                                                                                                                                   1. Inferior Technology                   I                                                    I I think inferior technology was a big part of Rome, and also the U.S. In Rome, they built amazing roads, aqueducts, bridges, and also established the first system of medicine for the poor. In the U.S, we have created things like the telephone, laptop, computer, and have medical break through's as well as Rome. After a while Rome didn't have any more ideas, much like the U.S.                                                             2. Inflation                                 The Roman economy had a great increase in prices after they stopped conquering other lands. The U.S has also seen a great increase in prices.

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1. Unemployment

Unemployment is a problem because many people in America don’t have jobs. They may not be able to find a job fit for them. In Rome some jobs didn’t pay well. Neither does some jobs today. Evidence:

1. Inflation

Inflation has happened in the US. What used to cost 20 dollars now costs much more. The cost of items has been increasing. Rome began to stop using coins and traded instead. It hasn’t happened in the US, but it could. Costs have been increasing. Evidence:

1. Decline in moral values

Decline in moral values is happening because of violent video games.  Many games include getting points for killing. In Rome there began to be much crime. All this violence can cause crime in the US. This decline in moral values helped lead to Rome's downfall. Evidence:

http://news.gallup.com/poll/210917/views-moral-values-slip-seven-year-lows.aspx

1. Political Corruption

Sometimes bribery happens in an election. People sometimes lie to get into office and then change what they said they would do. In Rome it was just everyone fighting to be emperor, you can see a resemblance of that today. In the source below, it explains 4 types of political corruption. Some types are preferential treatment, blackmail, graft and embezzlement, and payoffs and bribes. Evidence:

https://www.houstoncrimedefense.com/4-types-of-political-corruption/

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1. Decline in morals and values

The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video games.http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/09/11/the-bloodier-the-game-the-more/

2.)  Inferior Technology
The more people that come to america the more mouths there are to feed. There is more poverty in the u.s. now than ever.

https://www.statista.com/topics/781/poverty/

Political corruption
With the election in 2016 the nation was very split between democrat and republican. many people are still mad about the election. They have started protests. and we are making the Country weaker by fighting.

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2. Public Health is another problem in our economy. Americans are known to be overweight. Being overweight is not only not preferable, but it also is extremely dangerous. Obesity can cause heart diseases, high blood pressure, arthritis, high cholesterol levels, and strokes. In the graph below, 2% of Americans are underweight; 38% are normal; and 60% obese.

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1) Decline in moral values
In today's society, it feels like our values have been flipped on its head. What is wrong is suddenly now right, and what is right is suddenly now wrong. For example, when has killing the innocent ever been okay? According to https://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/data_stats/abortion.htm ,in 2014 alone, an estimated 652,639 legal abortions took place in just the United States. Furthermore, majority of abortions were from parents who were "just not ready yet" whether it be money or maturity and people who fooled around at parties and other social gatherings like the Romans did. It's honestly very irresponsible and cruel of parents to dispose of life for their mistakes or for their convenience. If that doesn't make someone want to puke, I don't know what will. Yet, many people stand by this sort of thing and sometimes even praise it. Though it might be traumatic for the mother, the only time I think it should be okay is if the mother's life is at risk. The fact that people stand by just any reason the mother gives just goes to show how little people think of life nowadays. 2) Unemployment
Just like how the Romans starting rapidly losing their jobs to others, the US's unemployment rate is going up in the same manner. According to https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htmm, our unemployment rate from March of this year was 4.1. The unemployment rate in the US luckily hasn't gone up and has stayed at 4.1 for the past 6 months. However, if it does starts to increase as it has in past years or possible even faster than that, it could play a major role in the fall of the US just like it did with Rome. We need jobs to further better our finical situation, because right now it isn't so good with our trillions of dollars of debt we have accumulated. We can't keep buying with a low source of income. If we really want to help build back up our  economy, creating jobs would be the way to do it.

3) Political Corruption
Lately, candidates and politicians seem to only have their benefits mind and not America, making elections rough. For someone who plans on ruling a large amount of people, yourself included, and a large amount of land, you'd hope they'd have your best interest in mind. America first would always be the way to go, not the candidate or anyone else. That might be why the latest election took such a turn. Many people probably sought out someone who had their benefit in mind, and they thought he did. And the same goes for any side whether you are Republic or Democrat and in other elections, the common factor is people wanted someone who will help and benefit America.

4) Public Health
Another factor that might play into America's downfall is our health. What Americans consume nowadays have caused a lot of health issues like problems in the heart, high blood pressure and obesity. Everything now is loaded with sugars like high fructose corn syrup, preservatives, GMOs, and too much caffeine. People also often go to places extremely unhealthy like McDonald's and Burger King instead of eating fresh food at home because it is more convenient. But even when Americans try to be healthy and drink water, it's still hurting them with all the lead, copper, rocket fuels and more that slip into to our tap water according to https://greatist.com/health/whats-actually-your-tap-water.

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1. Decline in Morals and values. Today, video games are inappropriate and can cause bad behavior. Young children tend to think more aggressively when they play bad video games. Kids may act how their video game character game acts. 90% of popular games have violence. Children from ages 12-17 have a 97 percent chance of having violence. There was a Roman party where everybody would drink until they became ill.
2. Military spending.
Trump's wall would cost nearly 90 billion dollars and 150 million a year to keep it going.
3. Unemployment.
Unemployment is a problem in the US. Around 6.85 million people are unemployed in the United States. That loses us 121,00 dollars a month and 568,00 dollars a year. The rise on unemployment in the US is a bad thing.
4. Inflation.
The prices of goods we buy have gone up. In the 60's, gas costed 31 cents a gallon (35 cents of today's money.) In 1980 it cost just over a dollar at 1.19 Now it costs over 3 dollars almost everywhere you go.
In 1994, movie tickets costed $4.08. According to natooline, a movie ticket costs about $9. It costs $8.97

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1 Decline in Morals and Values   "may be understandably shocked to learn that around 85% of video games contain some form of violence" (https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/...video-games...gaming.../406391002/)

Meanwhile in Rome " For more than 650 years, people flocked to arenas across the empire to watch these armed and highly trained warriors engage in a blood-soaked spectacle equal parts sport, theater and cold-blooded murder." (https://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-roman-gladiators)

This violence could have part of what to do with Rome falling. We may fall to. Most video games have some sort of violence in them.
2 Unemployment In America in 2017 4.1% percent of people capable of having a job, who are actively looking for a new job, were unemployed. A study was tested about unemployment to the crime rate in Australia. "The study, therefore, confirms the age-old hypothesis that the rate of unemployment is directly proportional to crime rate." This could have a hand in leading America to its downfall. (https://opinionfront.com/does-unemployment-increase-crime-rate)
3 Political Corruption I think Political Corruption is a big deal because everyone (or so it seems) just want power. One thing I've seen a lot since the Primary election is in process, is that the people running are trying to bring down the other candidates. " I have been seeing the attack ads " says David Olson (http://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article207761579.html)

Most of the nominees  are just trying to win, using any means possible, corrupting the government and people.
4 Inflation "The inflation rate plays an important role in determining the health of an economy. Countries with extremely high inflation rates are said to have hyperinflation and when this occurs the economy is often near collapse." (https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp?reloaded=true) Rome had super high taxes and then it was killed off. This could happen to America. We have very high taxes. In fact, the average American pays 10,489 dollars a year.

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3 Urban Decay
Have you ever noticed that houses are much lower quality than in years past? Builders are being negligent about the homeowners and the common man.
Note: In my last post, I meant to describe the second graph, not the first one. Sorry for the mix-up.

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Abigail Takeuchi
1. Decline in Morals and Values is a huge problem we face today. According to Bullying Statistics, suicide is the third leading cause of death among teenagers today. Bullying Statistics says " resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year, according to the CDC. For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Over 14 percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7 percent have attempted it. "http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/bullying-and-suicide.html

2. Public Health is another problem in our economy. Americans are known to be overweight. Being overweight is not only not preferable, but it also is extremely dangerous. Obesity can cause heart diseases, high blood pressure, arthritis, high cholesterol levels, and strokes. In the graph below, 2% of Americans are underweight; 38% are normal; and 60% obese.
https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/diet-physical-activity/body-weight-and-cancer-risk/health-issues.html
3. Urban Decay is a third problem. In our urban areas, we have polluted so much it has left a scar on the world. Some of the biggest types of pollution are air, noise, and visual pollution. http://ecolonomics.org/7-types-of-urban-pollution-that-everyone-ought-to-know/
4. Unemployment is another issue that Americans face today. So many Americans today have moved to theft in replacement of a job. According to President Donald Trump,  “We have a real unemployment rate that’s probably 21%. It’s not 6. It’s not 5.2 and 5.5. Our real unemployment rate–in fact, I saw a chart the other day, our real unemployment–because you have ninety million people that aren’t working. Ninety-three million to be exact. If you start adding it up, our real unemployment rate is 42%.”
 This is a graph representing our employment rate.https://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/08/20/donald-trump-is-right-about-42-of-americans-are-unemployed-if-you-include-my-88-year-old-grandma/

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1. Decline in Morals and Values

Decline in morals and values is a problem because of violent video games and media.  There is a lot of games that have a lot of violent content. People have parties and they just drink alcohol and become ill. In Rome, they used to have parties with them eating and drinking until they became ill. They also like watching violence in Rome.
Evidence:

2.  Inflation

Inflation is happening in the U.S. and some people can't afford the high prices. An example, would be the cost of houses in California. The houses are not that big but cost a lot. In Rome after they stopped conquering land, the amount of gold decreased because people started to pay more gold to buy luxurious items. Which means there wasn't enough of gold for coinage.

Example:

3. Political Corruption

Political corruption is happening in the United States. For instance, there are people that don't agree with Donald Trump with building a wall and some do agree.  In Rome it was hard to choose a new emperor.

Example:

4. Unemployment

Unemployment is happening in the US. There are a lot of people in the US that are not employed. There are 9.48 million people in the us that don't have a job and has been looking for a job in the last 4 weeks.

Example:

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2. Political Corruption
It seems like every election more and more people are disappointed in the outcome of who became president. Whether it has to do with who you like better or who is Democratic or Republican, but no matter what someone is always angry. Not every president makes choices you like either. Some people feel as if the president has too much power and some feel like they don’t have enough.

3. Inflation

The prices of almost everything has gone up considerably in just as much as twenty years. The prices you see at a grocery store are slowly going up and robbing us of our money. In 1980 a movie ticket was $2.69, now a movie ticket is $5.16 on average (see picture at bottom).

4. Decline in Morals and Values

When compared to the Romans, most people think we are very humane and polite people, but when we really think about it, we are not. Every day there is something completely unmoral going on. It could be a habit you are used to as well. Americans have almost become used to the idea of bad language, bad treatment of others, and bad media and videogames and movies (see picture below).

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1.) Unemployment has been a very big problem over the past couple of years. With Robots being invented to do jobs more efficient than humans. We have managed to get the rate down but eventually if we don't do anything about this then the people earning barely enough money to supply for their families. This happened in Rome also, The farmers couldn't afford to keep their workers and be able  to keep up with the people who used slaves to work and not pay them.https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000   This shows that we have been able to get unemployment down but it still is there.2.) Political CorruptionWe have had problems for many years about Political Corruption, with Russia hacking the election and the trust in the White House going down we cant  trust everything that the politicians say. This happened in Rome when they tried to choose a new emperor and with the fact with Russia interfering in our election

3.) Inflation

Inflation has been happening in the US and many people have been struggling to keep up with the rise of the high prices. Back in the 20th Century things were way cheaper than what they are today. after the reign of Marcus Aurelius Rome struggled against the rising prices of everything. this is showing that the U.S. is in the same boat of inflation.

4.) Decline inMorals and Values

In this age we have violent movies, games, and TV shows. we have violent games that adults and even kids are addicted. This is just like in Rome, In Rome people took their whole family to go see the gladiators kill each other in the coliseum. They Loved watching those people kill each other. http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/09/11/the-bloodier-the-game-the-more/ This link shows that the violence in kids Is effected by games with and without blood and violence.

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I think one of the problems in the U.S. is that there are many people that don't get jobs, there are even many people that don't even graduate college. So many people each year do not get good jobs because they do not get a good education and many do not get a good education, so in turn, they do not get a good job (see picture at bottom).

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Brooklyn Lewis1.) Unemployment              Unemployment was a big part of Rome and becoming a part of the United States. All of the people that need work get offered the worst jobs. In Rome the farmers weren't getting paid enough so soon there weren't enough farmers left to feed Rome and they had to import food. The current unemployment rate is 4.1% according to  Bureau of Labor Statistics, Eurostat. 2.) Inflation                     Rome's prices went up just like the US's did. The coins became worth less and less. In the US, prices keep rising and rising. Making it harder to stay cheap. Poor people are having a hard time getting the necessities as the prices raise.3.) Public Health            Romans had bad water and were exposed to a lot of lead. Similarly the US is processing food. Processed food is not usually healthy. In fact most of the time it just causes negative impacts. Processed food has less nutritional value and exposes your body to foods it doesn't know how to process. Also most of our streets are filled with liter, hurting the environment. If it continues on like this we may not have much left to care about. 4.) Decline in Morals and Value                                         According to  http://news.gallup.com/poll/210917/views-moral-values-slip-seven-year-lows.aspx  "77% say state of morals and values is getting worse." Just like the Romans and their gladiator combats, the US is producing violent videogames and movies. These sources of entertainment can train one's mind into thinking violent and harmful thoughts.

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Brooklyn Lewis1.) Unemployment              Unemployment was a big part of Rome and becoming a part of the United States. All of the people that need work get offered the worst jobs. In Rome the farmers weren't getting paid enough so soon there weren't enough farmers left to feed Rome and they had to import food. The current unemployment rate is 4.1% according to  Bureau of Labor Statistics, Eurostat. 2.) Inflation                     Rome's prices went up just like the US's did. The coins became worth less and less. In the US, prices keep rising and rising. Making it harder to stay cheap. Poor people are having a hard time getting the necessities as the prices raise.3.) Public Health            Romans had bad water and were exposed to a lot of lead. Similarly the US is processing food. Processed food is not usually healthy. In fact most of the time it just causes negative impacts. Processed food has less nutritional value and exposes your body to foods it doesn't know how to process. Also most of our streets are filled with liter, hurting the environment. If it continues on like this we may not have much left to care about. 4.) Decline in Morals and Value                                         According to  http://news.gallup.com/poll/210917/views-moral-values-slip-seven-year-lows.aspx  "77% say state of morals and values is getting worse." Just like the Romans and their gladiator combats, the US is producing violent videogames and movies. These sources of entertainment can train one's mind into thinking violent and harmful thoughts.

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1- Political CorruptionPoliticians have 

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1. Decline in Morals and Values

Decline in morals and values is a problem because of violent video games and media.  There is a lot of games that have a lot of violent content. People have parties and they just drink alcohol and become ill. In Rome, they used to have parties with them eating and drinking until they became ill. They also like watching violence in Rome.
Evidence:

2.  Inflation

Inflation is happening in the U.S. and some people can't afford the high prices. An example, would be the cost of houses in California. The houses are not that big but cost a lot. In Rome after they stopped conquering land, the amount of gold decreased because people started to pay more gold to buy luxurious items. Which means there wasn't enough of gold for coinage.

Example:

3. Political Corruption

Political corruption is happening in the United States. For instance, there are people that don't agree with Donald Trump with building a wall and some do agree.  In Rome it was hard to choose a new emperor.

Example:

4. Unemployment

Unemployment is happening in the US. There are a lot of people in the US that are not employed. There are 9.48 million people in the us that don't have a job and has been looking for a job in the last 4 weeks.

Example:

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Jack Swanson  (Real)                       1.) Unemployment has been a very big problem over the past couple of years. With Robots being invented to do jobs more efficient than humans. We have managed to get the rate down but eventually if we don't do anything about this then the people earning barely enough money to supply for their families. This happened in Rome also, The farmers couldn't afford to keep their workers and be able  to keep up with the people who used slaves to work and not pay them.https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000   This shows that we have been able to get unemployment down but it still is there.2.) Political CorruptionWe have had problems for many years about Political Corruption, with Russia hacking the election and the trust in the White House going down we cant  trust everything that the politicians say. This happened in Rome when they tried to choose a new emperor and with the fact with Russia interfering in our election 

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Jack Swanson  (Real)                       1.) Unemployment has been a very big problem over the past couple of years. With Robots being invented to do jobs more efficient than humans. We have managed to get the rate down but eventually if we don't do anything about this then the people earning barely enough money to supply for their families. This happened in Rome also, The farmers couldn't afford to keep their workers and be able  to keep up with the people who used slaves to work and not pay them.https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000   This shows that we have been able to get unemployment down but it still is there.2.) Political CorruptionWe have had problems for many years about Political Corruption, with Russia hacking the election and the trust in the White House going down we cant  trust everything that the politicians say. This happened in Rome when they tried to choose a new emperor and with the fact with Russia interfering in our election 

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3.) Inflation

Inflation has been happening in the US and many people have been struggling to keep up with the rise of the high prices. Back in the 20th Century things were way cheaper than what they are today. after the reign of Marcus Aurelius Rome struggled against the rising prices of everything. this is showing that the U.S. is in the same boat of inflation.

4.)Morals and Values

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U.S. Annual Inflation Rate in Percent
Jump to Current Inflation Table
The inflation rate plays an important role in determining the health of an economy. Countries with extremely high inflation rates are said to have hyperinflation and when this occurs the economy is often near collapse. But even moderate inflation can rapidly erode purchasing power and creates uncertainty as businesses have more difficulty estimating future costs. Usually, high inflation rates also correspond to high interest rates as lenders need to compensate for the decline in purchasing power of future interest and principal repayments. This results in higher costs of doing business and place an overall drag on the economy.

We calculate the Current Inflation rate (see table below) to two decimal places while the Bureau of Labor Statistics only calculates to one decimal place. Therefore, while being based on the same government Consumer Price index (CPI-U) our data provides a "finer" view.

January and February 2012 is a perfect example, according to the government statistics both months hadinflation rates of 2.9%. However, our data shows inflation in January as 2.93% and in February as 2.87%. Therefore instead of the inflation rate being "flat" it is actually falling slightly. Of course this could just be a statistical anomaly but..

Using this enhanced view we might be alerted to watch for the possibility of a bigger decline... which in fact did happen as inflation rates for the following months fell to 2.65%, then 2.30% and 1.7%, 1.66%, and finally 1.41% before beginning to rise again.

In another example we see August 2003 and September with the Government saying inflation rates were 2.2% and 2.3% respectively. This would lead us to believe that inflation rose .1% during that period. In actuality however, it rose from 2.16% to 2.32% or a .16% increase, substantially more than .1%! Once again this finer view gives us a better picture that inflation might be rising more than it appeared to be.

Current Inflation Table

The Inflation table below is updated monthly and provides the current US Inflation Rate which is for the preceding 12 months. The Inflation rate is calculated using the Current Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. CPI Index Release Dates

You may also be interest in a table of Monthly Inflation Rate data, which shows how much prices have increased over the previous month. Also check our current articles.

Since high inflation is detrimental to the overall economy but beneficial to the government (since it allows them to pay back their debt with "cheaper dollars") the Federal Reserve has a constant balancing act to try to reconcile the government's desires for higher inflation with the need for a healthy economy.

In an effort to convince people that inflation is really good, the government has a constant media circus going promoting the benefits of inflation and decrying the evils of deflation--- but what's so bad about falling prices?)

Their major argument revolves around the "stimulating" effects of inflation. Basically it makes people feel richer until they eventually realize that each of their dollars now buys less. But in the meantime they tend to spend the "excess". This results in people buying things they wouldn't have, had they realized that their money was actually worth less than they thought. Eventually this results in a monetary "hangover" as the effects of their buying binge become apparent.

Inflation is largely a result of increases in the money supply months or even years previously. Because of this serious lag in the time between the money creation and the time it shows up in the economy the FED must estimate the impact their money creation efforts will have years in advance. The Federal Reserve tries to target a 2% inflation rate but often over or underestimates the effect their actions will have.

The Federal Reserve monitors the inflation rate for its targeting purposes using the " Core Inflation Rate" which excludes food and energy leading some people to mistakenly believe that the U.S. government doesn't track those items in the inflation rate. Actually the Bureau of labor statistics does track them but the FED simply excludes them for targeting purposes because they are volatile and subject to external forces unrelated to the money supply.

We believe a picture is worth a thousand words, so we track the recent inflation rate in chart form to give you a better sense of the current direction of inflation and also the longer term inflation trends.

The inflation rate is calculated using the Consumer Price Index or CPI.
To calculate inflation from a month and year to a later month and year, Try our Inflation calculator.

We also post the previous Inflation Rates in our Historical Inflation Tables. The Historical Consumer Price Index is also available in table format. You can instantly see the current inflation trend in our chart of the Annual Inflation Rate.

Subscribe to our FREE monthly E-zine and we will keep you up-to-date on what is happening in the area of inflation, interest rates and market trends.
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Jump to Current Inflation Table The inflation rate plays an important role in determining the health of an economy. Countries with extremely high inflation rates are said to have hyperinflation and when this occurs the economy is often near collapse. But even moderate inflation can rapidly erode purchasing power and creates uncertainty as businesses have more difficulty estimating future costs.

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Current Annual inflation for the 12 months ending in November 2020 is 1.17% Virtually Unchanged from 1.18% in October
Jump to Current Inflation Table Jump to Current Inflation Chart
The inflation rate plays an important role in determining the health of an economy. Countries with extremely high inflation rates are said to have hyperinflation and when this occurs the economy is often near collapse. But even moderate inflation can rapidly erode purchasing power and creates uncertainty as businesses have more difficulty estimating future costs. Usually, high inflation rates also correspond to high interest rates as lenders need to compensate for the decline in purchasing power of future interest and principal repayments. This results in higher costs of doing business and place an overall drag on the economy.

U.S. Annual Inflation Rate in Percent

We calculate the Current Inflation rate (see table below) to two decimal places while the Bureau of Labor Statistics only calculates to one decimal place. Therefore, while being based on the same government Consumer Price index (CPI-U) our data provides a "finer" view.

July thru October 2019 is a perfect example, according to the government statistics July=1.8%, August=1.7%, and September=1.7%. However, our data shows inflation in July as 1.81%, August as 1.75%, September as 1.71%. Therefore instead of the inflation rate being "flat" it is actually falling slightly over this 3 month period. Of course this could just be a statistical anomaly but..

Using this enhanced view we might be alerted to watch for the possibility of a bigger decline... which in this case didn't happen as inflation rates for the following months began rising to 1.76%, then 2.05% and 2.29%, and finally 2.49% in January 2020.

In another example we see August 2003 and September with the Government saying inflation rates were 2.2% and 2.3% respectively. This would lead us to believe that inflation rose 0.1% during that period. In actuality however, it rose from 2.16% to 2.32% or a 0.16% increase, substantially more than 0.1%! Once again this finer view gives us a better picture that inflation might be rising more than it appeared to be.

For a more in depth commentary see Annual Inflation Rate Commentary

Current Annual Inflation Chart

According to the BLS commissioner's report, "The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2 percent in November on a seasonally adjusted basis after being unchanged in October, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, the all items index increased 1.2 percent before seasonal adjustment. The seasonally adjusted increase in the all items index was broad-based, with no component accounting for more than a quarter of the increase. The food index declined in November, as a decrease in the food at home index more than offset a small increase in the food away from home index. The index for energy rose in November, as increases in indexes for natural gas and electricity more than offset a decline in the index for gasoline. "

So what the BLS is saying is that on a Seasonally Adjusted basis the monthly inflation rate was 0.2% in November (see September column below) and Seasonally Adjusted October monthly inflation is zero. On an unadjusted basis annual inflation is 1.2%.

When we measure it to two decimals (on a non-adjusted basis) monthly inflation was 0.04% in October and -0.06% in November. While annual inflation was 1.18% in October and 1.17% in November.

Seasonally Adjusted Inflation Components Table

Current Inflation Table

The Inflation table above is updated monthly and provides the current US Inflation Rate which is for the preceding 12 months. The Inflation rate is calculated using the Current Consumer Price Index (CPI-U) published monthly by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. CPI Index Release Dates

You may also be interested in a table of Monthly Inflation Rate data, which shows how much prices have increased over the previous month. Also check our current articles.

Since high inflation is detrimental to the overall economy but beneficial to the government (since it allows them to pay back their debt with "cheaper dollars") the Federal Reserve has a constant balancing act to try to reconcile the government's desires for higher inflation with the need for a healthy economy.

In an effort to convince people that inflation is really good, the government has a constant media circus going promoting the benefits of inflation and decrying the evils of deflation--- but what's so bad about falling prices?

Their major argument revolves around the "stimulating" effects of inflation. Basically it makes people feel richer until they eventually realize that each of their dollars now buys less. But in the meantime they tend to spend the "excess". This results in people buying things they wouldn't have, had they realized that their money was actually worth less than they thought. Eventually this results in a monetary "hangover" as the effects of their buying binge become apparent.

Inflation is largely a result of increases in the money supply months or even years previously. Because of this serious lag in the time between the money creation and the time it shows up in the economy the FED must estimate the impact their money creation efforts will have years in advance. The Federal Reserve tries to target a 2% inflation rate but often over or underestimates the effect their actions will have.

The Federal Reserve monitors the inflation rate for its targeting purposes using the " Core Inflation Rate" which excludes food and energy leading some people to mistakenly believe that the U.S. government doesn't track those items in the inflation rate. Actually the Bureau of labor statistics does track them but the FED simply excludes them for targeting purposes because they are volatile and subject to external forces unrelated to the money supply.

We believe a picture is worth a thousand words, so we track the recent inflation rate in chart form to give you a better sense of the current direction of inflation and also the longer term inflation trends.

The inflation rate is calculated using the Consumer Price Index or CPI.
To calculate inflation from a month and year to a later month and year, Try our Inflation calculator.

We also post the previous Inflation Rates in our Historical Inflation Tables. The Historical Consumer Price Index is also available in table format. You can instantly see the current inflation trend in our chart of the Annual Inflation Rate.

Subscribe to our FREE monthly E-zine and we will keep you up-to-date on what is happening in the area of inflation, interest rates and market trends.
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Jora Kurland 1) Decline in Morals and Values              People used to dress reasonably and speak with respect, not anymore. You will not see any kids talking with respect. People (including girls) shave their heads and wear clothes that are very inappropriate for school. People also have lowered their values for themselves, more and more people are doing stupid things like getting their nose pierced or a tattoo. Evidence:  

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Jora Kurland 1) Decline in Morals and Values              People used to dress reasonably and speak with respect, not anymore. You will not see any kids talking with respect. People (including girls) shave their heads and wear clothes that are very inappropriate for school. People also have lowered their values for themselves, more and more people are doing stupid things like getting their nose pierced or a tattoo. Evidence:  

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https://pilotonline.com/business/jobs/article_51495504-1a4d-5f3c-b8ce-5e04f007b79b.html
my source
2)Urban Decay
More and more Americans, sadly, are homeless, or their houses are falling apart.  It isn't a lot, but that is a lot of people once you get down to it.

https://www.onefamilyinc.org/Blog/2011/09/29/increases-in-homelessness-on-the-horizon-but-not-inevitable/

3)Unemployment
This issue is one with at least some hope, thanks to Trump. But unemployment rates are still pretty high. At least he created jobs. :)
National Unemployment Rate at 4.1 Percent Through March 2018. Approximately 103,000 jobs were created in March 2018, and the national unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.1 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Job growth increased in manufacturing, health care and mining.
http://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/national-employment-monthly-update.aspx
My source
4)Inflation
Prices are getting higher and higher.

2015 | -0.1 | 0.0 | -0.1 | -0.2 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.1
2016 | 1.4 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.5 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 2.1 | 1.3
2017 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 1.6 | 1.7 | 1.9 | 2.2 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 2.1
2018 | 2.1 | 2.2 | 2.4
Inflation Rates
http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/historical-inflation-rates/
My source

Note:
When it says "My source" it is referring to the link above it.

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1) Public Health
I think public health was a big problem for Romans because the wealthy citizens' death rate was high, which leads to the problem of not getting enough money because all of the rich people are dying. This could happen to the US if we aren't careful about our water and the homeless, who aren't wealthy enough to care for themselves.
2) Political Corruption
The Romans had trouble picking new emporers, which took a very long time.
This could happen to the US because voting takes a VERY long time and people often try to convince others to vote for who they are voting for, sometimes in harsh ways, which could lead to problems...
3) Unemployment
I think unemployment was a big issue in Rome because people wouldn't be getting money to help care for themselves or help the economy at all. There are more and more people that are unemployed in the US, so it is possible that this could happen to us.
4) Inflation
I think inflation was a big problem in Rome because most of the hard-earned money was going to luxury items for the rich! We have very high prices and a lot of people, some of which don't even have the money to pay for the things they need. This could happen to the US because we have many people who don't have jobs, and who knows when the government will start wasting money for ridiculous purposes? We could run out of supplies to make money eventually...Not very soon, but it could still end up being a problem

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1. Inflation
According the source below, since 2010 salary rates have been going down, including salaries that were already below minimum wage are going down (in Texas, USA)
https://www.bls.gov/regions/southwest/news-release/minimumwageworkers_texas.htm

2. Morals and Values

According to the graph below the amount of violent crimes in major cities like Chicago and Dallas is going down, but not down far enough. Still 500 people out of every 100,000 are going through being a victim. That's a whole 0.5%. I know it doesn't sound like a lot, but imagine the consequences in a huge city like NYC.
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/12/broken-windows-broken-theory-crime/ 3.  Public Health
According to Stephen Guyenet from the website below, Americans are increasing their sugar consumption, and as everyone knows, although sugar helps with energy release, according to the second link, sugar is just plain bad for you.
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2012/02/by-2606-us-diet-will-be-100-percent.html

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/10-disturbing-reasons-why-sugar-is-bad4. Unemployment
The current unemployment rate is about 5.60%. That means about 1 out of every 20 people do not have a job. Even though that is a low number, that means a lot of people don't have a job to support their families.
SOURCE:http://fortune.com/2015/02/04/unemployment-rate-gallup/

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1. Just like Rome, we are declining in moral values, there are more and more inappropriate video games coming up in today's society which could effect how people grow up, and their attitude towards on another.  https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/video-games-and-violence/index.html First 10 paragraphs.
2. America is dealing with inflation problems. Over the past 50 years, the prices have just been rising and rising. It has stayed pretty steady over the past years, but it could go even higher.
3. The US is also spending a lot of money on military/army things. As the afghanistan wars continue, and the deadly attacks in Syria, the US is paying a lot of money to the military, which could be bad.
4. Unemployment is also a problem in the US. But, the U.S. is doing better, having the lowest unemployment rate since 2001. This could still be a major problem in the US in the near future.

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1. Unemployment-Though unemployment rates are lowering they are lowering slowly and there are still  6,585,000 people that are unemployed.
2. Decline in mortals and values- Kids these days....    

(unemployment graph) https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate
 
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1.Morals and values
There are so many games that involve killing people. Some examples are Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite, Yandere Simulator,  and Undertale
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1. Unemployment has been a very big problem over the past couple of years. With Robots being invented to do jobs more efficient than humans. We have managed to get the rate down but eventually if we don't do anything about this then the people earning barely enough money to supply for their families. This happened in Rome also, The farmers couldn't afford to keep their workers and be able  to keep up with the people who used slaves to work and not pay them.
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000   This shows that we have been able to get unemployment down but it still is there.
2.) Political Corruption
We have had problems for many years about Political Corruption, with Russia hacking the election and the trust in the White House going down we cant  trust everything that the politicians say.

   
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1.Morals and values
There are so many games that involve killing people. Some examples are Minecraft, Roblox, Undertale, Fortnite, Call of Duty, and Yandere Simulator  to name a few.  The first three are not primarily based on killing, but the others are.
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2 Unemployment In America in 2017 4.1% percent of people capable of having a job, who are actively looking for a new job, were unemployed. A study was tested about unemployment to the crime rate in Australia. "The study, therefore, confirms the age-old hypothesis that the rate of unemployment is directly proportional to crime rate." This could have a hand in leading America to its downfall. (https://opinionfront.com/does-unemployment-increase-crime-rate)

3 Political Corruption I think Political Corruption is a big deal because everyone (or so it seems) just want power. One thing I've seen a lot since the Primary election is in process, is that the people running are trying to bring down the other candidates. " I have been seeing the attack ads " says David Olson (http://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article207761579.html)

Most of the nominees  are just trying to win, using any means possible, corrupting the government and people.
4 Inflation "The inflation rate plays an important role in determining the health of an economy. Countries with extremely high inflation rates are said to have hyperinflation and when this occurs the economy is often near collapse." (https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp?reloaded=true) Rome had super high taxes and then it was killed off. This could happen to America. We have very high taxes. In fact, the average American pays 10,489 dollars a year.

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Rebecca Hopper                              1- Political Corruption    Politicians have become very corrupt and unprofessional. The public can't handle it if who they voted for didn't win. It's just pathetic. This site explains: https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_in_the_usa_the_difference_a_year_makes  a bit how just last time when Obama was elected, people who weren't happy about didn't start protests in the streets calling for impeachment. They let it be. Now, with Trump being elected, there are still many protests out there calling for Clinton in the office. No one can let anything go.                 2- Decline in Morals and Values  http://news.gallup.com/poll/210917/views-moral-values-slip-seven-year-lows.aspx  says that 77% of people think America's morals and values are getting worse, 81% think they are currently fair of poor. Things that are happening today would not have happened as much as they would in our parent's childhood, such as violent video games, homosexuality, and the decline of respect to most adults today.                                                                           

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Rebecca Hopper                              1- Political Corruption    Politicians have become very corrupt and unprofessional. The public can't handle it if who they voted for didn't win. It's just pathetic. This site explains: https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_in_the_usa_the_difference_a_year_makes  a bit how just last time when Obama was elected, people who weren't happy about didn't start protests in the streets calling for impeachment. They let it be. Now, with Trump being elected, there are still many protests out there calling for Clinton in the office. No one can let anything go.                 2- Decline in Morals and Values  http://news.gallup.com/poll/210917/views-moral-values-slip-seven-year-lows.aspx  says that 77% of people think America's morals and values are getting worse, 81% think they are currently fair of poor. Things that are happening today would not have happened as much as they would in our parent's childhood, such as violent video games, homosexuality, and the decline of respect to most adults today.                                                                           

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3- Inflation                                             Now a days, the cost of an average hamburger is about $4.49, but it wasn't always like that. In 1985, that same hamburger was only about 50 cents! That means in the past 33 years, inflation has gone up about 90%. http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/inflation/current-inflation-rates/ has a graph about inflation rates in the United States from 2000-2018.
4- Military Spending                        Military spending has admittedly gone up in the United States, but I think we have a strong enough leader to handle it. I also think that military spending is at least required if you have any intention of protecting your country.
In conclusion, I do think the U.S. will end at one point, but as the saying goes, "All good things must come to an end." However, I do not believe it will be because of inflation or military spending. I really think it comes down to Political corruptness and decline in morals and values. Clean politics are essential to running a truthful country, and so is having the right morals and values. If you grow up with bad morals and values, you have bad people leading our country, which creates corrupt people.                                          4-

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1. Unemployment-Though unemployment rates are lowering they are lowering slowly and there are still  6,585,000 people that are unemployed.

2. Decline in mortals and values- Kids these days....

(Morals and Values graph) https://www.google.com/search?q=decline+in+morals+and+values+graph&safe=active&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS781US784&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQtJmo9ufaAhUUVWMKHRMkAxgQsAQINQ&biw=1440&bih=769&surl=1#imgrc=sYsuFjm1wKZnjM:

(unemployment graph) https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate

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1.Morals and values
There are so many games that involve killing people. Some examples are Minecraft, Roblox, Fortnite, Yandere Simulator,  and Undertale
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1. Unemployment has been a very big problem over the past couple of years. With Robots being invented to do jobs more efficient than humans. We have managed to get the rate down but eventually if we don't do anything about this then the people earning barely enough money to supply for their families. This happened in Rome also, The farmers couldn't afford to keep their workers and be able  to keep up with the people who used slaves to work and not pay them.
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000   This shows that we have been able to get unemployment down but it still is there.
2.) Political Corruption
We have had problems for many years about Political Corruption, with Russia hacking the election and the trust in the White House going down we cant  trust everything that the politicians say.

   

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81% say state of moral values is "only fair" or "poor"

77% say the state of moral values is getting worse

Views have been consistently negative, at least since 2002

WASHINGTON, D.C -- Americans' ratings of U.S. moral values, consistently negative through the years, have slipped to their lowest point in seven years. More than four in five (81%) now rate the state of moral values in the U.S. as only fair or poor.

Since Gallup first asked in 2002 whether the nation's moral values were getting better or getting worse, the percentage saying worse has always been well above the majority level, ranging from a low of 64% in November 2004 to a high of 82% in May 2007. Over the past six years, it has stayed within a five-point range, reaching a low of 72% in 2013 and 2015 before climbing to this year's high of 77%.

Gallup's question about the current state of moral values getting better or worse has been asked over the same 16-year span as the question about the overall state of moral values. The combined percentage saying moral values are only fair or poor through the years has generally aligned with views about moral values getting worse.

The percentage of those having a positive view of the country's moral values -- either excellent or good -- peaked at 26% in November 2004, the same time that a high of 27% of people said the state of moral values was getting better. The individual highs that year were 4% excellent and 22% good.

Americans' low regard for their nation's moral values was evident in questions extending back well before the current questions were first asked 16 years ago. In 1991, 63% of U.S. adults said they were dissatisfied with the ethics and moral standards of the American people. In a 1996 poll, 39% said the state of moral values in the country today was somewhat weak, and 39% said it was very weak.
Social Moderates Most Negative, but Liberals' Ratings Also Low
Americans who define their views on social issues as liberal have seen their ranks grow from 21% in 1999 to 30% this year, reflecting the movement of the public toward acceptance of liberal positions on several moral values-related issues. Americans now support liberal views in record numbers on 10 different social issues.

With public opinion on those issues moving in a liberal direction, and with major Supreme Court rulings in recent years supporting abortion rights and gay marriage, social conservatives have always been more likely than liberals to say the state of moral values is poor and more likely to say it is getting worse. But even among liberals, in no year have more than a third described moral values as excellent or good, and only in 2009 -- a few months after Barack Obama's first presidential inauguration -- did less than a majority say it was getting worse.

The percentage of social liberals who thought moral values were getting worse stayed below 60% for most of Obama's presidency but rose to 71% this year with Republican Donald Trump's inauguration. The change from a Democratic White House to a Republican one also contributed to a substantial drop in pessimism among social conservatives. Seventy-seven percent -- an 11-percentage-point drop from last year -- now say moral values are getting worse.

With the percentage of moderates saying moral values are getting worse now up to 86%, 2017 is the first year social conservatives are not the group most likely to think values are worsening.
Attitudes Differ Widely by Age, Locale
No majority of any major demographic group views the state of moral values as good or excellent, but opinions differ significantly when looking at those who rate the state of the nation's values as poor. The overall average for the 16 years that Gallup has been asking the question is 42% saying poor, but that rises above 50% among a few groups and drops to a third or less among others:

Major differences occur by age. About half (51%) of those aged 65 and older believe moral values are in a poor state; 33% of those aged 34 and younger agree.

Fifty-four percent of those who live in a rural area, compared with 33% of those living a big city, say moral values are poor.

Thirty-one percent of those with postgraduate work say the country's moral values are poor.

Bottom Line
Though majorities of Americans say they are proud of their country and are satisfied with their overall quality of life, they are not as positive about the state of the nation's moral values. Even liberals, who seemingly should be pleased with the growing number of Americans who agree with their point of view on the morality of prominent social issues, are more likely to say things are getting worse than getting better.

Two possible reasons for the negativity among liberals in general and the rise in negativity this year among both moderates and liberals:

While social conservatives look at the decline in marriages, the increase in children born outside of marriage and the growing number of Americans identifying as nonreligious, social liberals have no lack of moral issues that concern them, including the position of blacks and racial minorities in the nation and the nation's efforts to deal with poverty and homelessness. Further, Trump's emergence has brought forth a barrage of articles from liberal publications about the coarsening of moral values.

Americans are not necessarily thinking about moral values in terms of abortion, gay marriage or other social issues that produce legislation and Supreme Court rulings. Polls in 2010 that asked respondents to cite the most important problem with moral values found that the reason most often cited was lack of respect or tolerance for others, with poor parenting also frequently mentioned.

With both conservatives and liberals criticizing the other side for lack of respect and with Americans of all backgrounds able to find some moral issue to deplore, there seems to be little chance of a substantive change in the near future to the longstanding trend of Americans having overwhelmingly negative views about the state of moral values.

Historical data are available in Gallup Analytics.

Survey Methods

Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted May 3-7, 2017, with a random sample of 1,011 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. All reported margins of sampling error include computed design effects for weighting.

Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 70% cellphone respondents and 30% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by time zone within region. Landline and cellular telephone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods.
View survey methodology, complete question responses and trends.
Learn more about how the Gallup Poll Social Series works.

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Views of U.S. Moral Values Slip to Seven-Year Lows

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Story Highlights 81% say state of moral values is "only fair" or "poor" 77% say the state of moral values is getting worse Views have been consistently negative, at least since 2002 WASHINGTON, D.C -- Americans' ratings of U.S. moral values, consistently negative through the years, have slipped to their lowest point in seven years.

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1.Morals and values
There are so many games that involve killing people. Some examples are Minecraft, Roblox, Undertale, Fortnite, Call of Duty, and Yandere Simulator to name a few. The first three are not primarily based on killing, but the others are.

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Story Highlights

81% say state of moral values is "only fair" or "poor"

77% say the state of moral values is getting worse

Views have been consistently negative, at least since 2002

WASHINGTON, D.C -- Americans' ratings of U.S. moral values, consistently negative through the years, have slipped to their lowest point in seven years. More than four in five (81%) now rate the state of moral values in the U.S. as only fair or poor.

Since Gallup first asked in 2002 whether the nation's moral values were getting better or getting worse, the percentage saying worse has always been well above the majority level, ranging from a low of 64% in November 2004 to a high of 82% in May 2007. Over the past six years, it has stayed within a five-point range, reaching a low of 72% in 2013 and 2015 before climbing to this year's high of 77%.

Gallup's question about the current state of moral values getting better or worse has been asked over the same 16-year span as the question about the overall state of moral values. The combined percentage saying moral values are only fair or poor through the years has generally aligned with views about moral values getting worse.

The percentage of those having a positive view of the country's moral values -- either excellent or good -- peaked at 26% in November 2004, the same time that a high of 27% of people said the state of moral values was getting better. The individual highs that year were 4% excellent and 22% good.

Americans' low regard for their nation's moral values was evident in questions extending back well before the current questions were first asked 16 years ago. In 1991, 63% of U.S. adults said they were dissatisfied with the ethics and moral standards of the American people. In a 1996 poll, 39% said the state of moral values in the country today was somewhat weak, and 39% said it was very weak.
Social Moderates Most Negative, but Liberals' Ratings Also Low
Americans who define their views on social issues as liberal have seen their ranks grow from 21% in 1999 to 30% this year, reflecting the movement of the public toward acceptance of liberal positions on several moral values-related issues. Americans now support liberal views in record numbers on 10 different social issues.

With public opinion on those issues moving in a liberal direction, and with major Supreme Court rulings in recent years supporting abortion rights and gay marriage, social conservatives have always been more likely than liberals to say the state of moral values is poor and more likely to say it is getting worse. But even among liberals, in no year have more than a third described moral values as excellent or good, and only in 2009 -- a few months after Barack Obama's first presidential inauguration -- did less than a majority say it was getting worse.

The percentage of social liberals who thought moral values were getting worse stayed below 60% for most of Obama's presidency but rose to 71% this year with Republican Donald Trump's inauguration. The change from a Democratic White House to a Republican one also contributed to a substantial drop in pessimism among social conservatives. Seventy-seven percent -- an 11-percentage-point drop from last year -- now say moral values are getting worse.

With the percentage of moderates saying moral values are getting worse now up to 86%, 2017 is the first year social conservatives are not the group most likely to think values are worsening.
Attitudes Differ Widely by Age, Locale
No majority of any major demographic group views the state of moral values as good or excellent, but opinions differ significantly when looking at those who rate the state of the nation's values as poor. The overall average for the 16 years that Gallup has been asking the question is 42% saying poor, but that rises above 50% among a few groups and drops to a third or less among others:

Major differences occur by age. About half (51%) of those aged 65 and older believe moral values are in a poor state; 33% of those aged 34 and younger agree.

Fifty-four percent of those who live in a rural area, compared with 33% of those living a big city, say moral values are poor.

Thirty-one percent of those with postgraduate work say the country's moral values are poor.

Bottom Line
Though majorities of Americans say they are proud of their country and are satisfied with their overall quality of life, they are not as positive about the state of the nation's moral values. Even liberals, who seemingly should be pleased with the growing number of Americans who agree with their point of view on the morality of prominent social issues, are more likely to say things are getting worse than getting better.

Two possible reasons for the negativity among liberals in general and the rise in negativity this year among both moderates and liberals:

While social conservatives look at the decline in marriages, the increase in children born outside of marriage and the growing number of Americans identifying as nonreligious, social liberals have no lack of moral issues that concern them, including the position of blacks and racial minorities in the nation and the nation's efforts to deal with poverty and homelessness. Further, Trump's emergence has brought forth a barrage of articles from liberal publications about the coarsening of moral values.

Americans are not necessarily thinking about moral values in terms of abortion, gay marriage or other social issues that produce legislation and Supreme Court rulings. Polls in 2010 that asked respondents to cite the most important problem with moral values found that the reason most often cited was lack of respect or tolerance for others, with poor parenting also frequently mentioned.

With both conservatives and liberals criticizing the other side for lack of respect and with Americans of all backgrounds able to find some moral issue to deplore, there seems to be little chance of a substantive change in the near future to the longstanding trend of Americans having overwhelmingly negative views about the state of moral values.

Historical data are available in Gallup Analytics.

Survey Methods

Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted May 3-7, 2017, with a random sample of 1,011 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. All reported margins of sampling error include computed design effects for weighting.

Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 70% cellphone respondents and 30% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by time zone within region. Landline and cellular telephone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods.
View survey methodology, complete question responses and trends.
Learn more about how the Gallup Poll Social Series works.

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Story Highlights 81% say state of moral values is "only fair" or "poor" 77% say the state of moral values is getting worse Views have been consistently negative, at least since 2002 WASHINGTON, D.C -- Americans' ratings of U.S. moral values, consistently negative through the years, have slipped to their lowest point in seven years.

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1. Unemployment has been a very big problem over the past couple of years. With Robots being invented to do jobs more efficient than humans. We have managed to get the rate down but eventually if we don't do anything about this then the people earning barely enough money to supply for their families. This happened in Rome also, The farmers couldn't afford to keep their workers and be able  to keep up with the people who used slaves to work and not pay them.
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000   This shows that we have been able to get unemployment down but it still is there.
2.) Political Corruption
We have had problems for many years about Political Corruption, with Russia hacking the election and the trust in the White House going down we cant  trust everything that the politicians say. This happened in Rome when they tried to choose a new emperor and with the fact with Russia interfering in our election.

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1)  Unemployment
Similarly to Rome, the unemployment rates of the US have been going up. However in the US it is because machines have been taking over jobs that people have done previously. I feel like we should learn from Rome and keep 2)  Price Inflation
Ever since we have started using money of our own, we have been upping the value of things, not unlike Rome. The prices in the US have gone up and, currently are continuing to go up at a rate of 2% each year.  3) Urban Decay
In the US urban decay is happening. The housing and rent prices are going up and people are moving out.
4)  Military Spending
If the military stopped spending money for 8 days, there would be enough to have every child in the world get 12 years of free schooling.World military spendingI feel like the US can learn from Rome's mistakes but it will only prevent the inevitable

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3. Military Spending
Our country is spending millions of dollars on our defense when they don't need it. They have billions of dollars in savings.
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Bruce Salisbury
1. Inferior Technology
As America constantly expands into the Internet, it could possibly be creating its own fall. Hackers from rival countries could possibly destroy our satellites and our ability to communicate. They then could then send several ICBMs and destroy the country of america forever. we would never had the time to react.

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Enoch Bate
Enoch Bate
1. Unemployment-Though unemployment rates are lowering they are lowering slowly and there are still  6,585,000 people that are unemployed.
2. Decline in mortals and values- Kids these days.... 

(unemployment graph) https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate

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Leo Haener-Pope
1. Just like Rome, we are declining in moral values, there are more and more inappropriate video games coming up in today's society which could effect how people grow up, and their attitude towards on another.  https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/video-games-and-violence/index.html First 10 paragraphs.
2. America is dealing with inflation problems, pricing are rising, and it could cause problems. This 

Trinity Gillispie
Trinity Gillispie
1) Inflation
Over time, things have been getting more expensive. "It costs more than ever to buy a home. In 1940, the median home valuein the U.S. was $2,938. In 1980, it was $47,200, and by 2000, it had risen to $119,600. Even adjusted for inflation, the median home price in 1940 would only have been $30,600 in 2000 dollars.That's partly why the typical homebuyer is now 44, whereas in 1981, the typical homebuyer was 25-34"  (Emmie Martin, June 2017) People can't afford things as easily as we used to. Homes and other necessities are much more expensive than what they used to be.
2) Decline in Morals and Values
People are becoming more violent. We don't have outrageous punishments for committing a crime anymore, but we've had quite a number of mass shootings, that its not even surprising anymore. People will want to blame video games, but that's not the thing to blame. I really don't have anything to blame. But, people aren't as surprised when we hear about  another mass shooting. We've just stopped being as surprised. 

Matthew Martino
Matthew Martino
1. Decline in morals and values 
 
The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video games

 
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Matthew Martino
1. Decline in morals and values 
 
The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video games.http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/09/11/the-bloodier-the-game-the-more/

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Leo Haener-Pope
1. Just like Rome, we are declining in moral values, there are more and more inappropriate video games coming up in today's society which could effect how people grow up, and their attitude towards on another.  https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/video-games-and-violence/index.html First 10 paragraphs.
2. America is dealing with inflation problems. A lot of times, prices suddenly burst up, then gradually go back down. The stock market is being affected very badly.
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Matthew P. Nicholes
Matthew P. Nicholes
1. Trump is spending more money than the president has ever spent to make our army better: $686 billion. He is starting to do the eighth thing Rome did: Military spending, draining us with his taxes and wasting his money on an already good army. Info from:
http://fortune.com/2018/02/12/trump-military-budget/
2. Political Corruption is present in today's society, as Trump is corrupt and destroying our good allies (*cough* Mexico *cough*).
3. 
4. Not sure yet.
5. Too many honey cakes made them too fat to fight. We have too much pizza. We can't fight Korea!
Liam Gabbard
Liam Gabbard
1. Decline in morals and values is one of the biggest problems because of what people have gotten themselves into. The video games and TV shows that we call entertainment have simply gotten out of hand. Nowadays, people literally think that they are in the video game they played, and they go insane.
Colten Bullington
Colten Bullington
#1 Inflammation 
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Tess Campbell
Tess Campbell
1. Decline of morals and values.
When I say decline, I mean decline! The video games and movies we watch are becoming so corrupt that I would think that all we think about is murder and other bad stuff. What I mean is that there are movies about explosions and evil murderers(luckily I have never seen any.  I have only seen the adds). For example, based on what I have heard about one very popular video game, you get more points for the more people you murder. Insane! 
2. Military spending
When you think about, the U.S.A. has a very large and rich military.  Why?  
Brooklyn Smith
Brooklyn Smith
1. Unemployment
I think unemployment is a problem because many people in America don't have jobs. Sometimes it can be hard to find a job opportunity
Samantha Hoopes
Samantha Hoopes
1) Decline in moral values
A big problem in USA right now is our decline in moral values. Children of our society today  often play violent or
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Victoria Metzler
Victoria Metzler
 1.  Decline in morals and values is a problem because of violent video games and media.  There is a lot of games that have 
Evidence:
Elle Hamaker
Elle Hamaker
1.  Decline in Morals and Value 
In America, we have video games and movies all about crime and violence. They have games where you get points to kill, beat up, or hurt people. This is tons of violence and crime that is exposed to very young kids. It is causing more violence in the US because kids think it's okay to kill, beat up, and hurt people. This is a big problem in the US and it is making the crime go up A LOT. Below is a chart that shows the more kids play violent video games, the more violent kids become.  
Mia Wang
Mia Wang
1. Decline in Morals and Values
Think about the last time you saw a movie or played a video game that had any type of violence in it. Seeing violence through games and movies seems normal to most people, but that is exactly the problem. 
Hannah Scoville
Hannah Scoville
1.) Political Corruption

     In the recent 2016 election, some people think Russia interfered with the votes. If that's true, are we really picking the right person to represent us? For example, Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton were both successfully impeached. Why did people vote for them if they weren't going to to their job as president? In campaigns, sometimes a candidate might have to lie a considerable bit to get elected.  Why would they do that? The only reason they want to be president is to gain power? 

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Bekah Barton
Bekah Barton
1. Unemployment
I think one of the problems in the U.S. is that there are many people that don't get jobs, there are even many people that don't even graduate college. So many people each year do not get good jobs because they do not get a good education and many do not get a good education, so in turn, they do not get a good job (see picture at bottom).
2. Political Corruption

Jora Kurland
Jora Kurland
1) Decline in Morals and Values
People used to dress reasonably and speak with respect, not anymore. You will not see any kids talking with respect. People shave their heads and wear clothes that are very inappropriate for school
Evidence:  

 All this proves is that only 75% of companies provide dress codes. People are not even "supposed" to wear business attire.
Lily Hoellwarth
Lily Hoellwarth
1. Inferior Technology
I think inferior technology was a big part of Rome, and also the U.S. In Rome, they built amazing roads, aqueducts, bridges, and also established the first system of medicine for the poor. In the U.S, we have created things like the telephone, laptop, computer, and have medical break through's as well as Rome. After a while Rome didn't have any more ideas, much like the U.S.
    

 2. Inflation
The Roman economy had a great increase in prices after they stopped conquering other lands. The U.S has also seen a great increase in prices
Lucas Coltrin
Lucas Coltrin
1. Decline in Moral Values.
 

 Look at how many rated R movie to rated G movies there are. There are so many more violent movies now and that is bad. That is a sign that people who watch movies are going to watch more rated R and PG13 movies. That could also mean that PG13 movies are getting more violent and lots of kids watch PG13 movies so that could be like exposing them to R rated movies at 13 or under.
2. Unemployment 

 While the unemployment rate is decreasing, a 4.5% as of last year is not a good thing. That means that about 14 million people are unemployed in the USA. The other problem is the machines are becoming able to do jobs better than we can. This could be one of the lead
Henry J. Leonard
Henry J. Leonard
1. I say that one way that the United States will fall is through inflation. Inflation may be slow, but in the near future, it will be costly, and we may have to leave the United States. Also, inflation could cause governments to stop working, because no one will buy their products. The U.S. will have a crisis, then will fall. Take a pack of gum, for instance. A pack of gum use to cost,back in 1945,$0.05. Now, in the present day, it is nearly $1.10
2. Another reason I think that the U.S. will fall is unemployment. Unemployment has caused Spain, a once thriving country, to die down. The figures say that there is a %62 unemployment in Spain. The U.S. could suffer from the same problem. Some people are fine with this, so they can relax, but think about how they would get their money to feed them and probably their kids.
3. The third reason I reckon that the U.S. will fall is probably morals and value. Because we are a strong nation, people might think that it is okay to mock other people beliefs and religions. If other people started mocking and laughing at people beliefs, the
4. The last thing that might cause the fall of the United States is inferior technology. As it says in the link:  However,  "the Romans relied so much on human and animal labor, [that] they failed to invent many new machines or find new technology to produce goods more efficiently." This was one of the reasons why Rome fell. Could it happen to us?  To find this information, go to these websites: 
1. https://www.investopedia.com/university/inflation/inflation1.asp

 2. https://www.google.com/search?q=percent+of+unemployment+in+spain&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS781US784&oq=percent+of+unemployment+in+sp&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0.13036j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&surl=1&safe=active
3.  http://changingminds.org/explanations/values/values_morals_ethics.htm
 4. see down http://teachers.yale.edu/curriculum/viewer/initiative_08.03.07_u
Jared Wasden
Jared Wasden
1. Inferior Technology is a huge part of both the old and the new era. They could build amazing things but they couldn't provide enough goods for the entire population. It's the same with today. We can not produce a lot of the technology we have created because each one takes so much money to create them we don't have enough money to keep producing them. " Technologies with this property of perpetual self-accelerated development--sometimes termed "autocatalysis"--create conditions that are unstable, unpredictable and unreliable. And since these particular autocatalytic technologies drive whole sectors of society, there is a risk that civilization itself may become unstable, unpredictable and unreliable. " http://longnow.org/essays/technology-moving-too-fast/
2. Inflation is also a huge part of both the Roman and our society.  There were losses in their money value. This eventually later turned into bartering instead of you using a distinctive coin that holds its value. Our coins hold our value but the increase of prices is incredible. For example the U.S. has inflation rates that  are rasing every year. 

 https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi
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Samuel Joseph Whiting
Samuel Joseph Whiting
Political Corruption
1. Back then they didn't set up a strong system to pick a new leader so sometimes they would sell the throne to the highest bidder. Today, some people bribe others to vote for them.
2.In ancient Rome, the emperor may be assassinated because of something, and that can also happen in america to the president.
Amelia Farr
Amelia Farr
1. Decline in Morals and Values
I think that Decline in Morals and Values might happen to the U.S the same way that it happened to Rome. The people in Rome started to enjoy watching people die. In the U.S today, people die in video games all of the time. In some games, you can get extra points just for killing people.
2. Public Health
3. Inflation
4. Urban Decay
Anna Waters
Anna Waters
 1. I think that Decline in Morals and Values is could happen to the US. Cyber bulling is leading to out of control anger, depression, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide. 

 
Abigail Takeuchi
Abigail Takeuchi
1. Decline in Morals and Values is a huge problem we face today. According to Bullying Statistics, suicide is the third leading cause of death among teenagers today. Bullying Statistics says " resulting in about 4,400 deaths per year, according to the CDC. For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts. Over 14 percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost 7 percent have attempted it. "http://www.bullyingstatistics.org/content/bullying-and-suicide.html
2. Political Corruption is another huge problem. Politics have become such a hot topic. People have been getting too aggressive. One of the biggest problems is campaigning problem.
Dylan Price
Dylan Price
1)I think that are morals are decreasing very fast. The Romans enjoyed watching criminals fight to the death. Today we find it entertaining to play games that involve murder. 

 2) Inflation. If you take the amount of money it took to buy something small like a baseball 20 years ago to now, it is very different.  

3) 
Elyse Shurbet
Elyse Shurbet
1) Inflation-
The economy has crashed in america multiple times. When it does, it effects us greatly. The Great Depression was even caused by a crash in the economy. 


2) Decline in Morals and Values-
There is too many video games with violence where you get rewarded for killing things. Take fortnite for example. It's rating is 13+ but people way younger that are playing it and loving the deaths that they cause in-game.
Sources: 
1. https://www.thebalance.com/how-is-the-economy-doing-3306046 and http://www.cland.k12.ky.us/userfiles/13/Classes/441/5%20causes%20of%20the%20great%20depression.pdf?id=8459 and https://tradingeconomics.com/charts/facebook.png?url=/united-states/unemployment-rate
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Jackson Wickard
Jackson Wickard
1. Inflation- Imagine going to a fast food restaurant. Would you want the big hamburger(refer to the picture) or the small hamburger. This is how inflation has acted.
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Mori Kurland
Mori Kurland
1.Inflation: According to the source below allsalary rates are going down. SOURCE: https://www.bls.gov/regions/southwest/news-release/minimumwageworkers_texas.htm 

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Emmie Lind
Emmie Lind
Our money is spent on things that do not benefit us in healthy ways. Taxes are being raised. Immigration allows people to travel in and out of the country, but diseases can be brought into America, causing epidemics of plagues. Some political leaders are not qualified to lead the U.S.A., causing disruption among states. Jobs are now needing more experienced employees, causing many people to go into unemployment.
Ana Callens
Ana Callens
1. The decline of moral values in the USA is practically an updated version of the drop in moral values of Rome. Like the gladiator games and violent video games. In  
the gladiator games  people came to watch people kill each other just like how in some video games you get points for killing people.
2. Military spending. the USA has been putting off funding for scientific studies that could stop diseases and many deaths and putting it to war just like the Romans did.
3. Inflation. Prices for thing have  rapidly increased over the pasted few years. If Prices keep rising soon no one ill be able to afford food or close.
4.  Political Corruption. I don't think i need to talk about this mush so here.
https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_in_the_usa_the_difference_a_year_makes also cuz it is so controversial right now
 

Brooklyn Searle
Brooklyn Searle
1.  Inflation
Many things have gone up in price over the years like recently the battery on my Xbox died and before it was $2.00 but now it is $20.00.
2. Urban Decay
Most poor people 
Rebecca Hopper
Rebecca Hopper
1- Political Corruption
Politicians have become very corrupt and unprofessional. The public can't handle it if who they voted for didn't win. It's just pathetic. This site explains: https://www.transparency.org/news/feature/corruption_in_the_usa_the_difference_a_year_makes
2- Decline in Morals and Values
http://news.gallup.com/poll/210917/views-moral-values-slip-seven-year-lows.aspx
says that 77% of people think America's morals and values are getting worse, 81% think the are currently fair of poor. Things that are happening today would not have happened as much as they would in our parent's childhood, such as violent video games, homosexuality, and the decline of respect to most adults today.
3- Inferior Technology
Today, one single cell phone can cost as much as $1,000 from apple and many other places. the price is so high because we are becoming shorter on resources needed to make all of this technology that we have invented.

Landon Jensen
Landon Jensen
1. Public Health decreasing
public health is decreasing  more people are getting sick every year and more people have died. we are getting less healthy and less healthier the U.S. public health funding steadily falling, new study shows  "By 2014, public health funding had plummeted 17 percent from 2002 levels (a 9.3 percent drop since 2008) with just 2.65 percent of total health spending, or $255 per capital, devoted to public health initiatives like smoking cessation and disease prevention. That adds up to a $40.2 billion loss of funds that could have been devoted to public health between 2009 and 2014, the study authors said."
2. Military Spending 
we are spending way too much on border defense because that trump wants to build his wall the estimated cost is 70 billion dollars that is for the military for illegal immigration.
3 
Samuel Joseph Whiting
Samuel Joseph Whiting
1. Unemployment is a problem that is definitely a problem in today's society, because there are so many people, and only so many job opportunities, which was also a big problem when rome was struggling as well as when it was prospering. (Discovery ED)
2. Some jobs were life-long, so that took away job opportunities for people. Unemployment was very wide-spread and there could be 10,000 unemployed people in one city.https://prezi.com/0dczdwtwb3dn/the-fall-of-rome-unemployment/
3. In ancient Rome, they like to conquer many places, which made their population of their empire grow, making more people who needed jobs, as well as having to pay their taxes. In today's society, we have a lot of immigrants coming into America all the time which has the same effect.
4. In Rome they had large amounts of taxes, which made it so some people couldn't pay for a home and stuff, and that is the case sometimes here in modern America. (Discovery ED)
Hailee Clark
Hailee Clark
1) Public Health
I think public health was a problem in Rome because the wealthy death rate was very high.
This may happen to the US if we are not careful about our water, our # of people living on the street, and our alcohol usage. 
2) Political Corruption
I think political corruption was an important factor in Rome's fall because they couldn't choose a leader very well, and without a leader, the country can't run. The US has problems voting sometimes because it takes a VERY long time to vote and people argue about who to vote for VERY seriously. This could be quite a problem
Brooklyn Lewis
Brooklyn Lewis
1.) Unemployment was a big part of Rome and becoming a part of the United States. All of the people that need work get offered the worst jobs. In Rome the farmers weren't getting paid enough so soon there weren't enough farmers left to feed Rome and they had to import food. The current unemployment rate is 4.1% according to  Bureau of Labor Statistics, Eurostat. 
2.) Inflation
3.) Public Health
4.) Decline in Morals and Value is a common occurrence today. According to  http://news.gallup.com/poll/210917/views-moral-values-slip-seven-year-lows.aspx  "77% say state of morals and values is getting worse." Just like the Romans and their galdiator combats,  the US is producing violent videogames and movies.
Lorien Williamson
Lorien Williamson
1) Decline in Moral Values
Video games that promote violence is one thing that is happening today, and with more and more gun violence, in the last year over 307 shootings have occurred, injuring 5 or more people almost every time. Also these games promote alcohol and drug usage.  
2) Political Corruption
This is another big problem in the US, just like in Rome we also have difficult times choosing our government officials and other important roles. Lots of times there might be cheating or they might mess with the voting system.
3) Unemployment
I think that is is another very large problem. When citizens stop working, they lose homes and if they can not find another job they beg on the streets. This is true for both Rome and the US, the US with more than half a million. This can also increase the crime rate for food and money.
4) Inflation
One example of this is when 
Kayla Broadhead
Kayla Broadhead
1 Urban Decay
2 unemployment
3 Political Corruption I think Political Corruption is a big deal because everyone (or so it seems) just want power. One thing I've seen a lot since the Primary election is in process, is that the people running are trying to bring down the other candidates. " I have been seeing the attack ads " (http://www.idahostatesman.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article207761579.html)
4 Inflation The inflation rate plays an important role in determining the health of an economy. Countries with extremely high inflation rates are said to have hyperinflation and when this occurs the economy is often near collapse. https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp?reloaded=truehttps://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp?reloaded=true
Kara-Elise Grossman
Kara-Elise Grossman
1. Political corruption
I think political corruption was a big factor in the fall of Rome and can be a big factor today. lots of people just want to become in power for their own purposes. a lot of people like the idea of being powerful.
2 unemployment was a big factor in Rome, and a big factor today some people are very rich, and live in big houses, while other people are poor. in fact more people are poor than rich. a lot of people don't want to work and rely on cheeseburgers from McDonald's, and get fat 
3. inflation today prices have gone up you used to be able to get a soda for 20 cents but today you can get it for 1$
also coffee from Starbucks is expensive JUST GET PLAIN BLACK COFFEE.
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Madero Tassi
Madero Tassi
1.)Inflation
 "January and February 2012 is a perfect example, according to the government statistics both months had inflation rates of 2.9%. However, our data shows inflation in January as 2.93% and in February  as 2.87%. Therefore instead of the inflation rate being "flat" it is actually falling slightly. Of course this could just be a statistical anomaly but..." https://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Rate/CurrentInflation.asp?reloaded=true
2.) Military Spending
  military spending is projected to account for 54 percent of all federal discretionary spending, a total of $598.5 billion. 
https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/military-spending-united-states/
3.)Unemployment
The US unemployment rate stood at a 17-year low of 4.1 percent for the sixth consecutive month in March 2018, slightly above market expectations of 4 percent. The number of unemployed decreased by 121 thousand to 6.59 million and employment fell 37 thousand to 155.18 million. The labor force participation rate dropped to 62.9 percent from a five-month high of 63 percent in February. Unemployment Rate in the United States averaged 5.78 percent from 1948 until 2018, reaching an all time high of 10.80 percent in November of 1982 and a record low of 2.50 percent in May of 1953. 
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate
4.)Public Health
 Americans are below average on most measures of health — from obesity to infant mortality — when compared with other rich countries, and they're falling behind on lifespan, too, according to the latest survey. 
https://www.nbcnews.com/healthmain/were-no-26-us-below-average-most-health-measures-2D11635080
Lucas Brooks
Lucas Brooks
Political Corruption is a big problem today because the government is fighting inwardly and for it's own benefit. They are not listening to the people as much as they should.
Decline in Moral Values is another problem because there is too many violent realistic games about killing people and there is more shootings. According to BBC, there were 372 mass shootings in the US in 2015, killing 475 people and wounding 1,870. 
Military Spending
Ava Gross
Ava Gross
1) Decline in morals and values.
One piece of evidence supporting this claim is that as more people play things such as video games and watch movies that romanticize drug use, more and more people start to abuse drugs. For example, in 1999 only about 7 million people were using illegal cannabis but in 2008 11.1 million people started to abuse cannibas.https://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WDR_2010/2.0_Drug_statistics_and_Trends.pdf
2) Military spending.
One example of excessive military spending is the US. In 2015 over (54%)598 billion dollars of the federal discretionary funds were used on Military, whereas only 100 billion dollars were used on Transportation and Education combined. https://www.nationalpriorities.org/campaigns/military-spending-united-states/
3) Inflation
https://www.reviewjournal.com/business/12-fast-food-prices-then-versus-now/
Bodin Champion
Bodin Champion
1.  Urban Decay there are many people living in poverty. There are currently 43.1 million people living in poverty in the US according to poverty.ucdavis.edu and with many people living in small houses or no houses our economy is slowly falling apart.
2. Unemployment
In the US 4.1% of the people are unemployed according to Bureau of Labor Statistics.
3. Military Spending The US is spending way more money than other countries. The US spends 611 billion dollars in defense while other countries combined only use 595 billion
4. Political corruption
Trumps wall will cost about 70 billion dollars to build and 150 million dollars a year to maintain. This is a pointless wall that will cause more war. www.nytimes.com

  www.pgpf.org Military Spending
Jaycen Koffer
Jaycen Koffer
1 video games are encouraging bad behavior and crimes. for example, the game GTA 5 encourages young children to commit crimes
2inflation is happening, for example , trumps wall will cost about 7 billion dollars to build
3 bread used to be  1$ a loaf and it costs about 5$ now
4sodas used to be 50cents, and now they're like 8$
Grace Johnson
Grace Johnson
1.) Decline in moral values
Crimes and violence are a big problem to the USA
2.) Unemployment
Because people loose their jobs, they also loose their homes and money
3.) Political Corruption
A lot of the Presidents got assassinated, like the Roman Emperors. But empowerment can overpower a person, like a lot of Romans.
4.) Public Health
There are many health problems that the USA has. Because of unemployment, poverty, and taxes, not everyone has good health. The Romans had a very bad lack of hygiene
Gwendolyn Nelson
Gwendolyn Nelson
1)Decline in Morals and Value
 Modern media like video games, movies, TV, and even some literature has definitely been desensitizing the USA to violence. The Romans also desensitized themselves to violence by watching the gladiator contests. Video games themselves may not cause violence, but they get us used to it.
Source: National Center for Health Research (NCHR)
2)Unemployment
The unemployment rates in the USA have gone down, and are at 4.1% as of February 2018, which is unlike Rome, that had a very big problem with unemployment in the decline of its empire. 
Source: US Department of labor statistics
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Samantha Hoopes
Samantha Hoopes
1)Decline in moral values

Zoe Phillips
Zoe Phillips
1. Political corruption.
In the United States, we are electing people into government who do nothing to support our country. They may have a specific view, but they don't see how it is effecting the general public. Take President Trump's idea of the boarder wall. He was wanting to build a large wall on the boarder of Mexico and the United States, which would not only cost a lot of money, but could be disruptive to the ability to get past to Mexico from the United States. Our politicians aren't as bright as we see them, either. Take for example, the 2016 election, where Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton went off face to face. They threw each other down and made staged promises to the country in order to win, and we still elected a corrupted person, though there was no other route. We need more people who will not ruin our country to run it, not children in grown bodies.
2. Military Spending
Another problem is using a majority of military funds on things we may not even need. I mean, now the POTUS(President of the United States) has banned transgender persons from joining the military because "They cost too much to be able to take care of
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Jaden Waldbillig
Jaden Waldbillig
1) Inflation 
Prices have been increasing by large amounts. No we are paying more for less food. For example gas prices, gas prices were starting to go down but in 2018 they started to get higher again.
  

 2)  Just like Rome we are spending a lot of money on military 

 
Garrett Hunke
Garrett Hunke
1 Public Health
 Rome suffered terrible strains of disease due to their lack of hygiene. I feel we are falling into the same loop, but we are being much sneakier about it. We are also a bit more brash about it.I found a chart depicting the results of a poll where people were asked where they have, err, relieved themselves. (see chart 1 )
 2  Political Corruption
    Let's face it. The elections here in the  U.S that aren't as honest as we think they are. Also, the politicians are getting wild with the attempt of winning.  

 3 Urban Decay
Jack Swanson
Jack Swanson
1. Unemployment has been a very big problem over the past couple of years. With Robots being invented to do jobs more efficient than humans. We have managed to get the rate down but eventually if we don't do anything about this then the people earning barely enough money to supply for their families. This happened in Rome also, The farmers couldn't afford to keep their workers and be able  to keep up with the people who used slaves to work and not pay them.
https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000   This shows that we have been able to get unemployment down but it still is there.
2.) Political Corruption
We have had problems for many years about Political Corruption, with 

   
LEO Haener-Pope
LEO Haener-Pope
1. The U.S. is having a HUGE unemployment rate, just like Rome. The U.S. recently has over the past few years been decreasing the unemployment rate, but, in January, there was a major bump. This is a very big problem that could lead to the fall of the U.S.
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
2. Political Corruption is beginning to happen in the United States. People have been showing some revolt into paying the government, saying that they pay the government through taxes. https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/event-summary-political-corruption-in-the-united-states-and-around-the-globe/
Lucy Porter
Lucy Porter
1)  Unemployment
Similarly to Rome, the unemployment rates of the US have been going up. However in the US it is because machines have been taking over jobs that people have done previously. 

2)  Price Inflation
Ever since we have started using money of our own, we have been upping the value of things, not unlike Rome. The prices in the US have gone up and, currently are continuing to go up at a rate of 2% each year.  

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Henry Williamson
Henry Williamson
1) Decline in Morals and Value
     There are video games and movies that are lowering morals and value by desensitizing people into thinking violence is okay and introducing people into porn.
   " Blood and gore. Intense violence. Strong sexual content. Use of drugs. These are just a few of the phrases that the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) uses to describe the content of several games in the Grand Theft Auto series, one of the most popular video game series among teenagers."
https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/violent-video-games-and-young-people
2) Inflation
     Inflation is growing in the U.S. and in 2013, prices were 22.75 times greater than in 1913. These higher prices will cause poverty in America.

  3) Unemployment
    Unemployment is a big problem in America with

 
Trinity Gillispie
Trinity Gillispie
1) Inflation
Over time, things have been getting more expensive. "It costs more than ever to buy a home. In 1940, the median home valuein the U.S. was $2,938. In 1980, it was $47,200, and by 2000, it had risen to $119,600. Even adjusted for inflation, the median home price in 1940 would only have been $30,600 in 2000 dollars.That's partly why the typical homebuyer is now 44, whereas in 1981, the typical homebuyer was 25-34"  (Emmie Martin, June 2017) People can't afford things as easily as we used to. Homes and other necessities are much more expensive than what they used to be.

2) Decline in Morals and Values
People are becoming more violent. We don't have outrageous punishments for committing a crime anymore, but we've had quite a number of mass shootings, that its not even surprising anymore. People will want to blame video games, but that's not the thing to blame. I really don't have anything to blame. But, people aren't as surprised when we hear about  another mass shooting. We've just stopped being as surprised. People are even viewing us as worse than what we used to be.  In this graph, you can see that people think our morals and values are  poor.

 

Max Curtis Spieser
Max Curtis Spieser
1.Inferior Technology is a big problem in the U.S., I mean, if your sink was broken, you wouldn't do it yourself, you would call someone else to do it. AND WE DO NOT NEED A NEW I PHONE VERY THREE MONTHS. We waste so much time on unneeded comforts.
2.Political Corruption is a very big thing and I think it should be stopped before everyone suffers. The presidents that have been elected in the past few decades are some of the worst, wasting money and angering neighboring countries.
3. Decline in Morals and values is a big problem as well. We play video games and watch movies with so much gore and death, it's becoming a problem. Our lives have become so emerged in thee blood fests, that we barley respond to it anymore.
4. Inflation is a problem as big and as bad as the others, I just chose to do it last. But we have been upgrading our prices since we started to use money of our own in the U.S., we have things so expensive that the rich still need to work. We, (also like Rome), Are suffering from large amounts of inflation.  

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Leo Haener-Pope
Leo Haener-Pope
1. Just like Rome, we are declining in moral values, there are more and more inappropriate video games coming up in today's society which could effect how people grow up, and their attitude towards on another.  https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/video-games-and-violence/index.html First 10 paragraphs.
2. America is dealing with inflation problems, pricing are rising, and it could cause problems. This 

Trinity Gillispie
Trinity Gillispie
1) Inflation
Over time, things have been getting more expensive. "It costs more than ever to buy a home. In 1940, the median home valuein the U.S. was $2,938. In 1980, it was $47,200, and by 2000, it had risen to $119,600. Even adjusted for inflation, the median home price in 1940 would only have been $30,600 in 2000 dollars.That's partly why the typical homebuyer is now 44, whereas in 1981, the typical homebuyer was 25-34"  (Emmie Martin, June 2017) People can't afford things as easily as we used to. Homes and other necessities are much more expensive than what they used to be.
2) Decline in Morals and Values
People are becoming more violent. We don't have outrageous punishments for committing a crime anymore, but we've had quite a number of mass shootings, that its not even surprising anymore. People will want to blame video games, but that's not the thing to blame. I really don't have anything to blame. But, people aren't as surprised when we hear about  another mass shooting. We've just stopped being as surprised. 

Matthew Martino
Matthew Martino
1. Decline in morals and values 
 
The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video games

 

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As America constantly expands into the Internet, it could possibly be creating its own fall. Hackers from rival countries could possibly destroy our satellites and our ability to communicate. They then could then send several ICBMs and destroy the country of america forever. we would never had the time to react.

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The more hostile the country gets the more law enforcement they need. the more jobs they need the more money the country spends. All from playing bloody video games.http://scienceblogs.com/cognitivedaily/2008/09/11/the-bloodier-the-game-the-more/ 2.)  Inferior Technology
The more people that come to america the more mouths there are to feed. There is more poverty in the u.s. now than ever. https://www.statista.com/topics/781/poverty/

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One big problem with many of the studies of video game violence is that they compare different games. Sure, people might behave more aggressively after playing Carmaggeddon instead of Tetris - they're completely different games! What would be more impressive is if we could simply remove some of the violence from a game and see if the violence itself - rather than, say, the game's storyline - is what's actually the root of the aggressive behavior.

Fortunately, the standard settings of Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance allowed a team led by Christopher Barlett to do just that.

They had avid gamers play Mortal Kombat on a Playstation 2 using one of four levels of bloodiness, from Maximum (where combatants not only bled profusely, but the blood pooled on the ground and could be realistically tracked around the combat arena when players stepped in it) to None (where even a brutal hit with a sword or other weapon would cause no bleeding).

Before and after the gaming session, players' hostile thoughts and feelings were measured with a survey, and heart rate was taken at several points to measure arousal. Here are the results:

As the game got bloodier, hostility levels after playing the game, especially compared to pre-game hostility, were significantly higher. The results for arousal were less clear-cut, but similar:

Arousal levels in the bloodiest version of the game were significantly higher later in the game than at the start of the game. However, this appears to be primarily due to a low initial arousal level. The researchers don't offer an explanation for why this might be - perhaps the sight of so much blood was initially shocking, but as gamers became accustomed to it, it was arousing.

The researchers also analyzed how often players used a sword in the game, which inflicts more damage, and, they argue, is therefore a direct measure of aggression. Those in the bloodier conditions - Medium and Maximum - used the sword significantly more often than the Low and No-blood conditions.

The study was repeated among non-gamers, with similar results. Overall these results do suggest that the violence itself in a game is what leads to more aggressive behavior and attitudes. But there are some problems with the study. To me the "use of sword" in-game isn't a real measure of aggression. Players know the game is make-believe and they aren't really hurting anyone. This is different from other studies where participants believe they are actually hurting real people. We might speculate that similar results would be found in a case like this, but we can't know for sure until an actual study is done.

Despite these problems, this study offers convincing evidence that violence itself, rather than other aspects of game-play, may be responsible for real-world aggressive behavior and hostile attitudes.

C Barlett, R Harris, C Bruey (2008). The effect of the amount of blood in a violent video game on aggression, hostility, and arousal Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 44 (3), 539-546 DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2007.10.003

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One big problem with many of the studies of video game violence is that they compare different games. Sure, people might behave more aggressively after playing Carmaggeddon instead of Tetris - they're completely different games! What would be more impressive is if we could simply remove some of the violence from a game and see...

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1. Just like Rome, we are declining in moral values, there are more and more inappropriate video games coming up in today's society which could effect how people grow up, and their attitude towards on another.  https://www.cnn.com/2016/07/25/health/video-games-and-violence/index.html First 10 paragraphs.
2. America is dealing with inflation problems. Over the past 50 years, the prices have just been rising and rising. It has stayed pretty steady over the past years, but it could go even higher.3. The US is also spending a lot of money on military/army things. As the afghanistan wars continue, and the deadly attacks in Syria, the US is paying a lot of money to the military, which could be bad.  4.

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1. Trump is spending more money than the president has ever spent to make our army better: $686 billion. He is starting to do the eighth thing Rome did: Military spending, draining us with his taxes and wasting his money on an already good army. Info from:
http://fortune.com/2018/02/12/trump-military-budget/
2. Political Corruption is present in today's society, as Trump is corrupt and destroying our good allies (*cough* Mexico *cough*).
3. The third thing that is happening is Decline in Morals and Values. These days, if there is a school shooting, what usually happens? We shrug it off. We are being de-sensitized to these things. We just feel like there is no change to killing, cursing, nudity, bad muffins, or pollution. We've just stopped caring.
4. Then there's Unemployment. Sure, there's a lot of different shops and factories in the world and stuff, but there's not enough jobs. Some people did one thing wrong and they're stuck on the streets for life. It's not right, but the robots are taking all the work, and there's not enough jobs. It's just like Rome in about 586 A.D.
I'd have an unemployment chart, but then it would be too big. So, https://www.google.com/search?q=american+unemployment+rate&safe=active&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS760US781&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj5oJPj9-faAhWKrFQKHQY2C_IQ_AUICygC&biw=1366&bih=637&surl=1#imgrc=k00GFccS_3asPM:
5. Too many honey cakes made them too fat to fight. We have too much pizza. We can't fight Korea!

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1. Decline in morals and values is one of the biggest problems because of what people have gotten themselves into. The video games and TV shows that we call entertainment have simply gotten out of hand. Nowadays, people literally think that they are in the video game they played, and they go insane. This could change the way people grow up completely. It could also change their personality and their attitude.

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#1 Inflammation
imagine your mother said you had two choices for dinner the image on top, or the image on the botom or

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1. Decline of morals and values.
When I say decline, I mean decline! The video games and movies we watch are becoming so corrupt that I would think that all we think about is murder and other bad stuff. What I mean is that there are movies about explosions and evil murderers(luckily I have never seen any.  I have only seen the adds). For example, based on what I have heard about one very popular video game, you get more points for the more people you murder. Insane!
2. Military spending
When you think about, the U.S.A. has a very large and rich military.  Why? Our army is fighting alongside the Afgan military in

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1.1. Unemployment
I think unemployment is a problem because many people in America don't have jobs. Sometimes it can be hard to find a job opportunity. Some people don't have enough money to go to college. Many people today don't have a job.

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1) Decline in moral values
A big problem in USA right now is our decline in moral values. Children of our society today  often play violent or crude games such as Call of Duty or Mortal Combat. The whole objectives of these games is kill your opponents and be the last one standing. On TV, which most people of all ages watch, is also filled with inappropriate images and language

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1.  Decline in morals and values is a problem because of violent video games and media.  There is a lot of games that have a lot of violent content. People have parties and they just drink alcohol and become ill.
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1.  Decline in Morals and Value
In America, we have video games and movies all about crime and violence. They have games where you get points to kill, beat up, or hurt people. This is tons of violence and crime that is exposed to very young kids. It is causing more violence in the US because kids think it's okay to kill, beat up, and hurt people. This is a big problem in the US and it is making the crime go up A LOT. Below is a chart that shows the more people play violent video games, the more violent they become. The crime rate has gone up because of violent video games.

2. Infaltion
There is a lot of inflation in the US 20 years a

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1. Decline in Morals and Values
Think about the last time you saw a movie or played a video game that had any type of violence in it. Seeing violence through games and movies seems normal to most people, but that is exactly the problem. movies and video games make violence seem normal, which is causing us to be influenced in a way that makes us too.