Answer:
1. The town's urban development choices, tight affordable housing, the impoverishment of the native people and the development of freeway highways and railroad track lines that circumvent run thru the region are all factors that contribute to urban degradation. At the conclusion of Reagan's presidency, the poverty rate was the identical as it had been in 1980. During the Reagan years, income transfers were reduced, which contributed to a rise in poverty and inequality. Improvements in tax policy aided in the rise of inequality while reducing poverty. Reagan's legislative decisions only served to accentuate those problems.
2. The loss of these employment is only the most apparent manifestation of NAFTA's economic consequences on the United States. In reality, NAFTA has exacerbated income disparity by lowering real pay for production employees, reducing employees' collectively bargaining strength and capacity to form unions, and reducing fringe bonuses.