Social Justice and Sustainable Development in American Political Economy

This essay discusses the issues of social justice and sustainable development in American political economy and suggests measures to achieve sustainable and equitable urban communities. The essay highlights the problems faced by the American economy in terms of uneven performance and suggests policies to eradicate extreme cases of hunger and poverty, promote gender equality, reduce child mortality rate, and ensure environmental sustainability. The essay also suggests measures to provide education to ghetto kids, promote the use of solar-powered vehicles, and provide medical facilities at low costs.

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The social justice refers to the concepts that deal with the concepts of the fair and the just
relations that should be existent among the various individuals and the society wherein they
reside (Adams & Bell, 2016). The social justice is generally measured very explicitly and tacitly
in terms of the wealth distribution, social privileges and the various other opportunities that are
related to the opportunities that are related to the personal activity of the concerned activity
(Thompson, 2016). The social justice concepts, in both the oriental and the occidental cultures,
receive the dues of the concerned society as well as help in ensuring the facts that the concerned
individuals who have been residing in the concerned society have been fulfilling the various
roles that they might have towards the concerned society (Kumashiro, 2015). The issues that are
raised within the American society might be resolved with the implementation of certain
practices that might lead to the sustainable development within the country. The following essay
deals with a serious problem that is being faced by the American society in the matters that are
related to the uneven performance as is demonstrated by the political economy of the country.
The essay further deals with the ways to solve the issues that has been raised by the eminent
scholars regarding the uneven performance of the American economy.
The American political economy is known to be facing issues that pertain to the
unevenness of the performance that has been demonstrated in the recent times. The American
economy is known to have been comprised of the vast resources and various other powerful
technologies that might be used in order to put forth an advancement in the matters that pertain
to providing the concerned residents of the country with the various facilities that are related to
the medical care at the reasonable costs. The economy is also reported to have failed in the
matters that pertain to keeping the environment pollution free by taking measures that lead to the
lowering down of the pollution that is consistently present in the air and the water (Griggs et al.,

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2013). The economy is also criticized for the inactivity that is depicted by the concerned society
in the matters that pertain to the education of the ghetto kids, the provisions of the decent and the
low-cost mass transportation, halting the raise that is observed in the service and the housing
costs and the various services pertaining to the repairing of the televisions and the automobiles
that are owned by the concerned residents of the country.
In order to deal with the afore-mentioned problems, the concerned country might be
advised to implement the various measures and policies that might assist in the creation of the
sustainable and equitable urban communities within the country. The sustainable development
within the country might be achieved by taking into account the various matters that might be
related to the eradication of the extreme cases of hunger and poverty that exist within the county,
the achievement of the primary education on a universal level, the promotion of gender equality,
the reduction in the mortality rate of the children, the improvement in the matters that pertain to
the maternal health of both the pregnant ladies and those who have become mothers during the
recent times (Holden, Linnerud & Banister, 2017). The concerned nation might also need to take
into account the matters that pertain to the fights that must be put up against the various diseases
like the AIDS or the HIV, malaria and other such diseases, the ensuring of the environmental
sustainability as well as the development of the global partnership that might help in the
development as well as the maintenance of the sustainable developments that are necessary for
the concerned country.
The governing bodies of the country might be advised to put forth the various steps that
are related to the matters that pertain to the creation of the sustainable development within the
country. The concerned country might be advised to look into the matters that pertain to
providing education to the ghetto kids. The governing bodies might introduce the schools and

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other localized educational institutions in the various area wherein there is a high population of
the ghettos (Carley, & Christie, 2017). The concerned government might also take initiatives in
the introduction of the various techniques that might help the concerned kids to take interest in
the activities that pertain to the education. The governing bodies that are present within the
country territories might be advised to extend tuition fee waivers in order to attract a greater
number of kids to the concerned educational institutions, thereby leading to the conditions
wherein the residents of the country would be having access to the primary education that should
be provided to all the members of the country. The children must be educated on the ways in
which the concerned society might achieve a sustainable balance within the concerned society.
The concerned governing bodies might also be advised to take measures in order to put
forth a cleaning of the environment by implementing restrictions in the matters that deal with the
pollution that is faced by the concerned residents of the country (Lu et al., 2015). In order to
address the increments in the air pollution, the concerned governing bodies of the country might
be advised to promote the use of the vehicles that run on solar power or on rechargeable
batteries. The concerned residents of the area might also be advised to lay more stress on the
matters that pertain to the disposal of the wastes, both industrial and domestic, into the various
water bodies that have been existent within the concerned area. This might help in the controlling
of the water pollution that has been an alarming issue for the residents within the country (Zhou,
2014). The other areas wherein the concerned government might put forth sustainable measures
are those that pertain to providing the medical facilities to the needy people at very low costs.
This might be achieved by introducing various grants and leases for the people who might be in
dire need of the various medical services offered by the various medical units active within the
country. The concerned society might be advised to put forth a reduction in the consumption of

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the materials and the huge amounts of energy in the matters that pertain to the medical facilities
that are provided to the clients.
Thus, from the above discussion, it might be pointed out that the governing bodies might
be held responsible for the matters that pertain to the development of the various sustainable
policies and practices within the country. The concerned country might eb advised to put forth
the various suggested measures in order to deal with the overall implementation of the
sustainable policies and practices within the country.

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