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This site includes several sections to explore to answer basic climate change questions. It is easy to navigate, and helpful.

This site includes several sections to explore to answer basic climate change questions. It is easy to navigate, and helpful.

In New York City a new law was passed that mandated using breast milk while in the hospital. Mayor Michael Bloomberg is attempting to raise awareness and promote feeding with breast milk as opposed to formula. Breastfeeding has numerous benefits that formula does not offer which is why they are pushing for it to be mandated as the primary form of nutrition for infants.

This site actually helps you get health insurance that is right for you. It simplifies the process with easy to understand options

You see it all the time, these celebrities commit a crime and get away with it. Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen seem to be the celebrities that keep getting away with it over and over.

Every day the federal government as well as state and local governments pass laws to make us a safer society. As they make our society safer they are slowly eliminating our rights, liberties, and our personal freedoms. Where is the balance? Is a safe nerf ball society worth giving up our freedoms for.

Every day the federal government as well as state and local governments pass laws to make us a safer society. The government wants to regulate abortion, religion, sex, child discipline, marriage, and free speech.They want to control what you can post on the web, what your kids wear to school, where you can walk across the street, what you can watch in titty bars, what you can say at the office, where you can pray, where you can get high, who you have sex with, what kind of sex you have, what jokes you can tell, and when you can spank your children.

The article discusses how easy it is for the government to take things away from you with very little effort. The author also brings up alot of his own personal views on society and how things are ran in america.

Yales article on how to do your part in aiding the preservation of biodiversity. 6 easy ways to do you part in helping your planet.

In his January 2014 State of the Union address, President Obama called for a new federal minimum wage of $10.10 an hour. The year before, in the same speech, he proposed a $9 minimum wage. This article addresses the different reasons to increase and the issues with increasing the minimum wage. it discusses how it has changed over the years and states that the original minimum wage was 25 cents an hour back in 1938. There are quite a few interesting stats in this article.

I definitely that Obamas move to raise the minimum wage has caused more problems than it has done good. It's only created a sense of working less, doing less for more pay. People don't want to work hard, get an education, or persue a career goal in order to make money. It's seems more common that people just want what's easy and what gives them the most for their own selfish desires.

An organization based out of Australia that helps poor countries to provide clean drinking water. Underlies the importance to global health thru clean water.

What a great organization! Water sanitiation is something that we take for granted here in America, it's easy to not think about the other countries that have clean water.

this website discusses several issues but this link actually takes you to the issue of unsanitary water. This caught my attention due to the fact that so many countries do not have this luxury that we do. Clean water is commonly overlooked in our society.

Interesting article about physical and mental needs of the refugees looking to come to the United States. The article is written in simple language and easy to understand.

Even though mental illness is a common problem it's handled very poorly. People with mental illness struggle to get help for a variety of reasons. They lack the money to pay for therapy and the support they need.

Mental health definitely needs funding. A lack of funding will result in higher poverty and an increased suicide rate among the disabled. Not too long ago the mentally ill were put in asylums. Being someone who has Asperger's Syndrome I have experienced shutdowns and anxiety. At my last college I was unofficially withdrawn. When I have anxiety I often cannot leave my bedroom and school has become very difficult.

The main reason many do not seek professional help is not due to money, but the stigma that society places on someone with mental illness. Suffering in silence is a common way to handle the disease. Many also self medicate with alcohol and drugs. There is free help out there, just have to look for it. Catholic Family Services and Christian Church groups are there to those who ask for the help. The first step is to ask.

Is the loss of civil liberties worth the convenience of technology?

Technology has and will always be a huge part of my life. Having grown up with a brother heavily into gaming, programming, and IT work I got to see first hand the in's and out's of how the web works. It all comes down to how you manage your own security. Of course, there will always be the paranoia of being monitored but that has been happening for a long time. It all comes down to being cautious with what you do alone and or over technologies.

This book captures the many facets of information gathering by digital dossiers. It reminded me of the recent unveiled programs called Tempora and Prism used by the United Kingdom and NSA. The extent of these programs capacity to siphon user data iset deeply guarded and not known in detail, however the dossiers gathered by our internet traffic on an individual basis should alarm users. I belive privacy is priceless, if I told my grandfather who passed in 2006 the extent we divulge our personal information on social media he would probably find it unbelievable. He was born in 1920 became an officer in the United States Air Force and served in WW2. The idea of privacy has changed with each generation. The way we perceive the handheld devices we all carry as young as the age of 5, may seem to our greatest generation who is currently exiting our society as a mere tracking device for big brother. This reading was very informative.

A current topic since Trumps's campaign for presidency, and specifically right now with President Trump's inauguration last week, this article talks about the cost's of building a wall along the U.S./Mexico border, which would be roughly 2,000 miles in length. Trump made this promise throughout his campaign and seems to be focused on taking the steps towards this within the last week. This article talks about the cost's of building such a wall. I found it very interesting how they add up.

I hope Trump has a large piggy-bank because I don't see where this money will come from. His presidency isn't going to be easy for him if this is how he wishes to start. We are in an age of equality and fairness. More seed opposed than for it.

I agree with Hailey hopefully our president has a saving account because I don't think that Mexico will pay the way for him. In my opinion Donald Trump is going to gain enemies from all over the world because he is not treating everybody the same.

This article explains how birth control should be available over the counter. They say how nothing major is required to receive birth control, and women can use a checklist to make sure they are eligible to obtain it.

This article is an older one about how the new bill would drastically change the way women receive birth control. It makes points like how more than half of the countries around the world offer it over the counter.

This article introduces many facts about how harmful smoking can be but it also provides facts that its not easy to quit. The website includes both points of views about how smoking has been banned in certain places and nowadays it is questionable of whether Americans have freedom to smoke or if smoking is slowly becoming extinct.

HOW SOCIABLE, EVEN GLAMOROUS, it all once seemed. Today, the lighting of a cigarette is commonly regarded as the epitome of antisocial behavior. Leading men and women of the silver screen once puffed away before audiences of all ages, but today the New York State Department of Health announces in full-page ads that cigarettes "don't belong in youth-rated movies, period."

Explains the background of why the case exists. Breaks down the case to make it more easy to understand

As a homeless mom, Karen Penley likely hasn't had it too easy. Now she says a big obstacle is preventing her from fulfilling her baby's most basic needs. The Hawaii mom prefers breastfeeding to keep her child nourished, but that may not be an option at her shelter.

Includes all what can and cannot be done in the 50 U.S. states concerning breastfeeding in public. By informing accurate dates and bills, it becomes very easy to diminish what is legal and what is not.

Pediatricians and health officials promote the many health benefits of breastfeeding infants the first year of life. Breastfeeding legal rights include public breastfeeding and breastfeeding in the workplace. Lists state laws individually.

Breastfeeding moms are protected by the law to breast feed in public as discussed in this article. You can find all the laws in the US and the responsibility of an employer to provide breastfeeding accommodations to a breast feeding mother.

Nowadays, more women than ever are having babies at the peak of their careers. In this article, the author discusses how working women in the United States are finding it more and more difficult to maintain a substantial career while also being a mother. Maternity leave in the United States is neither stress-free or easy for working mothers, as the success within their careers directly suffers due to unhelpful maternity leave policies.

This Article attempts to address the pros of gerrymandering. The author attempts to explain that their is no right way of drawing regions. Gerrymandering is no easy issue to fix.