Poverty
Proposition 2: A bad idea for California
October 7, 2014Prop 2 sets aside a percentage of the surplus billions in unexpected tax revenues, without restoring the $15 billion in brutal budget cuts beginning in 2008 .
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State of Florida itself at stake on November 4
September 24, 2014Florida's governor, Rick Scott, has either stood by and let the degradation of the state occur or has actively contributed to it.
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Homeless youth need support now more than ever
September 8, 2014This week marks the 40th anniversary of the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act,, which has provided funding for services to youth experiencing homelessness across the nation.
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Rights groups sue feds over immigrant families
August 25, 2014"What we are seeing in Artesia is nothing less than a sham process that values expediency over justice".
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Ebola epidemic and African underdevelopment
August 22, 2014These are countries of fabulous wealth, whose people live in grinding poverty, the pattern for most of sub-Saharan Africa.
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