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Why 'Will & Grace' Is Still Necessary, Especially in Trump and Pence's America - Society has made huge strides on LGBTQ rights in the two decades since, including the Supreme Court's historic 2015 decision that legalized ...

An Argument for Why “Will and Grace” is Not Good for the LGBTQ Community - However, not all people were fans of the show, including many of those in the LGBTQ community. In fact, there are plenty of people who believe that ...

Why Will So Many LGBT Youths Be Sleeping Rough This Christmas?  - The Albert Kennedy Trust (ABK) provided 8,000 nights off the streets for young LGBT people with nowhere else to turn in 2014, a 160% increase on ...

Why Republicans shouldn't be so optimistic their tax bill will be a big win - For Republicans, the fundamental belief driving this tax bill is that it will unleash substantially stronger economic growth and that will solve many of America's problems — from debt to inequality . The thinking goes like this: Give corporations a massive tax cut and most Americans a decent-sized cut, and ...

Why Solar: personal energy freedom will reduce poverty - Energy is freedom; personal energy freedom will reduce poverty , and help curb the rising unrest that is becoming all too common. Trump's America  ...

Racism against white people doesn't exist in America , and here's why it never will - A 2014 survey done by the Public Religion Research Institute found that 52 percent of white Americans felt that the discrimination against them was ...

Why women will prove vital in the battle against poverty : The idea that increasing female empowerment is the best way to reduce poverty isn't new, but in the 10 years Barbara Stocking has been chief executive of Oxfam, it has been at the heart of what the organisation does. "It's quite deliberately said that ... The Guardian

Nearly 1.7 Million Older Americans Will Never Receive a Social Security Benefit -- Here's Why - reality, it's a benefit that Americans need to earn through work, albeit ... Because these folks usually receive a pension, their poverty rate tends to be ...

Why Illinois' medical marijuana law will be different The House of Representatives passed legislation that would establish a four-year pilot program to supply medical marijuana to patients with qualifying conditions if their doctors recommend it. Supporters are hopeful that the Senate, which is scheduled ...

Why legal marijuana will hurt kids - The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CMAH) in Toronto says, "cannabis is not a benign substance and its health harms increase with intensity ...

Christian college president explains why LGBTQ people are just like ISIS - For example, every time you see LGBTQ in an article, simply replace those letters with ISIS. Change nothing else. Do this throughout the entire column in question. In doing this, something will quickly become quite obvious. Sentences will emerge such as these: “Love is love and ISIS has the right to love ...

Why America fails and will still succeed   - It's a new year and Americans always want to “get back in shape. ... Yet, this “ education ” has our youth learning how to take tests instead of thinking ...

Why The Most Radical Innovations In Education Will Be In The Developing World  - There's a huge need for low-cost education in the developing world. Many countries in Africa and Latin America have large school-age populations, ...

13 Reasons Why We Should Be Talking About Teen Suicide - The premise—in which the suicide has already been completed when the series begins—imparts a mistaken sense of inevitability to suicide, despite evidence that suicide is preventable, and its causes are treatable. Schools and professionals across the nation have warned parents against letting teenagers view the show alone, and have pointed out that, for some vulnerable viewers, seeing graphic depictions of suicide may increase the risk that they will act on suicidal thoughts. Nevertheless, the series is the most talked about series of the year on Twitter, and we are faced with a critical opportunity to open up the discussion and deepen the understanding of teen suicide. The loss of a young person to suicide is a tragedy. As a parent, my heart aches at the painful truth that more than a dozen families in the US will lose a loved one under the age of 25 tomorrow.

Why The New National Transgender Survey Will Be Revolutionary  - which was developed and conducted by the National LGBTQ Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) in 2008- 2009.

Why Donald Trump's Second 100 Days Will Be Even Worse For LGBTQ Equality - When I wrote a piece a few days after the election, “The Mike Pence (Donald Trump) Assault On LGBTQ Equality Is Already Underway,” I hoped ...

Why The Supreme Court DOMA Decision Has Big Money Consequences For ... While most SCOTUS watchers today will be focused on the social justice aspects of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act—which defines marriage as a union between a man and a woman—the impact of the Supreme Court's decision will extend far beyond the ...

Why women will prove vital in the battle against poverty You start looking at everything differently if you put women at the heart of it. In her 10 years as chief executive of Oxfam, Barbara Stocking has overseen many initiatives that work with and for women around the world.

Most doctors won't sign medical marijuana recommendations. Here's why, plus a list of those who will - Would-be patients in the Tulsa area have few options for providers able and willing to sign medical marijuana recommendations, and that may be due ...

Why a federal LGBTQ nondiscrimination law will be difficult to pass, according to new research - Nearly 70 percent of U.S. adults favor LGBTQ nondiscrimination protections, but that doesn't mean they'll embrace current ...