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You are America  - It's easy to forget about America's proud history when socialistic countries constantly rank ahead of the U.S. in education and excel at bringing their ...

Homelessness Destroys Lives : Homelessness is not just a housing problem. Not having a decent home adversely affects all areas of your life – from your health, to your achievement at school if you are a child, and your ability to get work if you are an adult. Conversely, if you are ... America | Las Américas | Português | Español | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

A Day in Gay America 2012: Are You Ready? : Just mark your calendar, and on November 9 take a self-portrait, or have a friend photograph you or your family or friends doing anything that says something about who you are as a lesbian, gay , bisexual, or transgender person in the United States . The ... Advocate.com

You And I Are The Main Causes Of Inequality In America - The 1 percent is not the main cause of inequality in America . You and I are. More precisely, the culprits are the top 20 percent, which, as the economist ...

We are overmedicating America's poorest kids  - In America , poverty is a disease that comes with a host of symptoms. If you're poor, you're more likely to suffer from diabetes or asthma. You're also ...

All this is fuelled by income inequality in America, one of the highest in the world. It is 40th in the level of inequality out of 150. The same level as ... View article...

6 alarming facts about poverty in America that you might not realize are true - Everyone knows that poverty exists, but by the very nature of economic inequality in America , if you're not living in poverty or close to it, it's not ...

You are here: Home News Latest 8 New Jersey cities score well in ...  - A new report on LGBT equality in America's cities was just released and New Jersey did well. But Jersey City was the only perfect score in the state at 100 points  ...

Will US Healthcare Inequality Cause Genetic Diseases To Disproportionately Impact The Poor? - Today in America , if you are poor, you are also more likely to suffer from poor health. Low socioeconomic status — and the lack of access to healthcare ...

These Are The Worst Cities To Be LGBTQ In America, Because You Need To Know Before You Go - One of the reasons I recently left my home state of Missouri to try to make a home out in Los Angeles is because I'm a bisexual feminist who hasn't ...

Are you asking 'why?' America needs help - So, every day I see another Trump embarrassment make headlines, and I think how does this “Make America Great Again” ? Maybe “great” isn’t the word he intended. We have to remember that Trump’s vocabulary is just a little limited. He could have meant something else, like grim. Let’s try it out: “Make America Grim Again!” Okay, that could work, things were pretty grim during the Great Depression. Millions of people out of work and starving, no social safety nets, nothing but despair. That seems to be the path he wants to take now. Grim just may have been what he was trying to convey.

An open letter to Donald Trump: How not to make America great again - You are running for US president with the slogan “Make America Great ... You may complain about inequality in the US caused by the offshoring of ...

Who Are the Top 1 Percent in America ? The Answer from New Research Might Surprise You - In other words, it's not Wall Street; it appears not to even be capital at all (or not just capital) that's driving income inequality in America today. It's the ...

Addictions are harder to kick when you're poor. Here's why  - Now, another drug epidemic is afoot, and white America looks economically a lot more like black America in the 1990s: stable, well-paying jobs are ...

America's poor subsidize wealthier consumers in a vicious income inequality cycle - White's headline captures a reality for many Americans who regularly live near the bottom of their bank account. But it also misses the other side of the coin: financial services are cheaper the richer you are. This hidden driver of income inequality is embedded in something that we use every day and ...

Sacha Baron Cohen's Who Is America ? Shows Us Who We Are, For Better or Worse - extent to which you believe them will probably dictate whether Who Is America ? strikes you as uneven comedy or harrowing tragedy.

Untreated Mental Illnesses Cost America's Workforce Billions Every ... : This all means that, statistically speaking, you are probably working alongside someone who is struggling with a metal illness. Unfortunately, there is still a stigma surrounding mental illness , which is why so many conditions go untreated. America | Las Américas | Português | Español | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

With No More Cotton to Pick, What Will America Do with 40 Million Black People?  - If you are Black in America , being educated , hard-working and crime-free ensures nothing. Black unemployment and the deprivation of Black wealth in ...

What Are You Going to Do to Prevent Bullying? | ED.gov Blog : When I helped close the third annual Federal Partners in Bullying Prevention Summit on Tuesday, my colleagues and I gave attendees a simple charge: what are you going to do to further bullying prevention in the next year? At the summit we ... America | Las Américas | Português | Español | Stigmabase | eGAYlity

Barbara Bush - bidding farewell to America's grandma - To us , family means putting your arms around each other and being there,” she once said. She was not one to sit silently in the face of inequality and prejudice, saying “Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.”.