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This is a website arguing that homeless people should have the right to vote. Just because they have no permeant address to register with, doesn't mean that they can't vote just like every other US citizen. The current system is taking away their personal freedom to vote.

A project of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health. Tips on how to breastfeed in public with feeling uncomfortable.

The future of privacy protection remains an open question. The public, however, wants a Constitution that fills privacy gaps and prevents an overreaching Congress from telling the American people what they can and cannot do.

This discusses the legality of the right to privacy. Is it constitutional? Is it even a right? Looks at court cases in the pat

This article talks about freedom of speech not being allowed in China until this day. Although, the internet has played a major part of China speaking their minds.

The intent of the author of this post was to dispel the myth that CO2 limits will harm the economy. The author begins by explaining what this is and then by reference the legislation that proposes limitation of carbon. Then the author explains all of the projected effects of such an action or inaction for comparison. In the conclusion of the article, the author states that reducing the carbon output would be less impactful that letting things run their course.

The article describes how Individuals struggling with poverty are at risk and in danger of starvation and sanitation. Poverty has a negative impact on society, children, and violence.

In this entry, it explains the public poverty and more importantly the child poverty. It explains but also adds how they effect the other.

Poverty is a serious issue across the world. Starvation and illness can surge through low income and create a serious health risk for many.

The website offers links to various sources of information on the collection and distribution of surveilled data from government agencies in an attempt to inform its readers and covers the paranoia tinted tone of those who find government surveillance in todays society to be too close to "Big Brother" methods and presents an argument for their point of view through the methods of MIT professor Gary Marx. The argument is presented in a series of questions on the ethical stance of what the government surveils, what the surveillance consists of as well as the consequences of any action taken as a result of surveillance and the reality that American citizens never consented to the constant surveillance of their personal lives. The position of inclination towards complacency is concisely summed with a strong amount of surveillance being presented by the double edged statement of "If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.".

This article focuses on the interrelation between poverty and health. It gets into further detail about the reasons why people may become extremely poor because of their health situations. It also implements different solutions to help those who find themselves in situations like these.

This article gave me information on healthcare from a perspective of the people living at the poverty level. It focuses on how different strategies and projects made directly to change the affect of this healthcare system in its current status.

This article does well in representing how complicated poverty is. I liked how the authors showed how health care is a cause of poverty, and poor health care is also a sign of poverty. It goes to show the dual nature of many social issues and why solutions are increasingly challenging. The solutions offered by the authors look like they would be effective, but executing them might be difficult. It would be hard because these solutions are very general, and they would cost money as many of them require the government to force the cost of healthcare down.