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I would say that one of the agencies that has a lot of impact on me is the Internal Revenue

Service (IRS). I have to report to them every year by filing and doing my taxes. Every job

that I have had, I had to report to them and if not, then I could be in serious trouble with

them. They make sure that every company and every individual files and pays their taxes.

One of their policies that does have an impact on us is the privacy policy. The (IRS) can

collect information that can be easy to obtain such as your name and address, but for

personal information they need you to contact them and give them the information so that

you are on their records. You are trusting the person that is working for this agency to not

give your information to anyone else, which if they did both you and the person can be in a

to do this. They make sure that you receive the basic training of your chosen field. This for

me was Culinary Arts. Once you have completed, they prep you with job interviewing skills,

a resume, job searches and even clothes for the interview if needed. Job Corps is a way to

prepare yourself for a better future. You can get your high school diploma, GED or even

attend college through this program. With no cost to you, you can even stay on campus if

you qualify. All this and they pay you a little too. This program started my passion for cake

decorating and my hunger for starting my own business. This program definitely made a

lifelong impact on me. public policies, are made through enacting laws, like cutting taxes

funding programs or not, issuing and enforcing regulations and rulings or not, and their use

of force. These policies impact our lives by policies can directly affect you as an individual;

policy. ... Regardless of where you live, public policy plays an important role in the

international community of setting out to solve issues efficiently, as well as effectively.

After looking over the index of U.S Government Agency’s I have come to the conclusion

that the one agency that would have the most effect on my personal life would be the US

Army. The majority of my life was spent as a child of a military parent, my father was an

officer in the US Army so most of my life was decided around what policies and orders that

were needed to be followed.When I was younger since being a dependent I would get free

health care which was more important at the time to my parents since they were the ones

Protection and U.S Department of Homeland Security. My husband has worked for U.S

Customs and Border Protection for the past fourteen years. This department has personally

impacted both of our lives. I know many people don't care or like to deal with this

department. Just in case someone doesnt know what this department does they keep terrorist

and weapons from entering the United States. And to implement immigration and drug laws.

The Debt and Claims Management Center collects or settles delinquent debts for the

Department of Defense by the former military members and civilian employees. The Debt

management help reduce outstanding, unsecured debts over time to help the debtor regain

control of finances. I too had to uses this because my credit has so much things on my credit

that had needed to be erased off my credit in order for my credit score to go up and be

cleared from old accounts. Many policies are written when it comes to Debt and Claims

Management Center such as writing guidelines, allowances, and restrictions that guide the

debt issuance practices. The main reason we have debt is to ensure that the governments

financing needs and it's payment obligations are met at the lowest possible cost over the

where I live or recieve orders to be stationed, and even my pay. There are many different

sub departments of the DoD but I obviously fall under the department of the Air Force

which puts out several new policies yearly. One that affects higher leadership is AI 94

Personal Property Management. This has to do with leadership managing property budgets

and logistics. I personally feel some of this as I am a Property Custodian of our section in

the hospital. Another impactful policy that the DOD recently implemented is the DODI

6010.23 DOD and Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Resource Sharing Program.

This program touches us specifically because we work in healthcare and we have specific

resources applicable to different beneficiaries based on their insurance status. I think that we

can all agree that the Centers for Disease Control Prevention (CDC) has made a significant

impact on many individuals lives. If you go to the CDC’s website (cdc.gov), the first thing

you are reading is information about COVID-19. Upon further inspection, the first opening

page to the website has quick links with information from the CDC about COVID-19 such

as quarantine & isolation, travel guidance, testing forCOVID-19, recommended restaurants,

and where to get vaccines or boosters.

outbreaks of infections that are U.S. based, international outbreaks, and travel notices that

will be affecting you if you are traveling internationally. The outbreak sections contain the

date posted, the type of infection (E. coli, Listeria, Salmonella, Coronavirus, etc.), the

contaminated food name, description of contaminated food, places that the contaminated

food is available to purchase, the “best if used by” date of contaminated food, and the stats

of sickness from the contaminated food including a timeline of recorded sick people. The

site urges individuals to check for the certain product that is contaminated and throw away,

and a list of symptoms to be on the look out for. The department or agency that has impacted

my life the most would have to be the "The Center for Disease Control and Prevention". The

reason that this has affected me personally would be because I don't feel as if they did

go without, causing the rapid spread in the cases and making it to where it was too late to

stay ahead of the spread.

down and making it to where even going to a grocery story was prohibited, that affected me

peoples mental health as well. They also made it to where even for the people staying

cautious and following guidelines didn't have access to anything. I ended up not getting to

visit family or even go to see my grandmother at the nursing home. It's caused an impact on

my life, and thousands of others. For me I would say the US Army is a agency that

significantly impacts me the most personally. It states that the US Army organizes, trains,

and equips active duty and Reserve forces to preserve the peace, security, and defense of the

United States. Being a soldier of the army is a lot of responsibilities and most of the time it

forces you to be away from your family which is a huge impact on mine. While your family

is home you being a soldier on duty you are protecting yourself, others, and of course the

and debt and did not see no way out because my income was not enough with raising two

kids as a single mom. After speaking with a few people, I learned my options and filing

bankruptcy was one of them. I consulted with an attorney and he processed my bankruptcy.

Once I was discharged from the court I began see some relief. Although I had to turn

everything over, including my car after the first six months I was able to purchase a new car

and apartment. I had to start all over and build my credit, however if it bankruptcy did not

exist I would still be in debt and most likely facing garnishments. Bankruptcy gives people a

second chance and this time I got it right, I was approved for a new home loan. The federal

government agency that I picked to discuss that is personal to me in my daily life is The

National Institute of Mental Health or NIMH. This agency is the largest agency that

specializes in research of mental illness. Institute was authorized by the US government in

1949, the year president Harry Trueman signed the National Mental Health Act into law.

I picked this agency because I work partially in the mental health field and have for the last

10 yrs. Seeing different cases and incidents happening in the world, paints a clear picture

that a lot of people either have the wrong perception of mental illness or none at all. I think

One policy implemented with this was the extended training for police officers on how to

deal with a mental illness situation. I have seen lots of situations where the incident was with

somebody of a mental health disability and the police was involved. There was no on-site

mental health person or strategies done to ensure the person's safety and ultimately ended up

with the mentally disabled person being killed by the police. This incident happens in my

city, actually about 5 yrs ago around the corner from where I was living at the time. Since

that particular incident, the police force has gone through extensive training or CIT (Crisis

Intervention Training) on how to deal with calls they get on how to handle those. They have

even hired on site trained officers that are considered specialist officers. Knowing that a lot

of mental patients I work with have been in situations that either had that kind if resource or

did not has given me hope to want to know more about how they could have been treated in

that situation differently trained or untrained.

Another is the policy that allows more of an outlet for mental illness and mental health. Not

being enough places for people to go seek help needed or hotlines to call for help has always

been a struggle. Making sure that those people have enough help out here then they do with

hopes of that also lowering the crime rate in America as well. Our Executive branch took

little to no action on illegal immigration into our country for as long as I can remember. We

then had president Donald J. Trump who put a stop to illegal immigration through his border

patrol policies. Enforcing our laws that were already in existence was part of Trump's

solution. Any safe functioning prosperous country does not allow for illegal and or

undocumented people to enter into their country. To allow thousands and thousands of

people maybe even into the millions of immigrants to enter into our country illegally is

We had a President who made such positive change for the first time in many decades on

illegal immigration into the United States. Positive effects on our institutions and general

safety came with this. This has an effect on everyone in the United states. Now after

bringing positive change to our illegal immigration problem we get Joe Biden who uses his

Executive powers to undo all progress that we made. President Joe Biden's Executive order

on Revision of Civil Immigration Enforcement Policies and Priorities January 2021