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a plan to hike state cig tax by 32 cents was tried and house shot it down. it would have practically doubled the tax in the state of LA Mi also rejected sim bill. Money would have been put toward healthcare and education.

The tax was put up for vote and richmand says no. Tax proposed was 1cent per oz. ABA lobbied spending 2.5 mill to campaign against. The same tax was proposed under a different name in LA county and got rejected with wider margin.

This article talks about how some younger people part of the LGBT community are treated unreasonably by peers, family, and teachers. This is linked to these children being arrested or being part of juvenile crime.

Some families still don't agree with people choosing to be how they feel on the inside, now this causes conflict and some of these children actually leave their home, sadly.

This articles speaks of the effort of America to influence the culture of the youth in Afghanistan to promote greater women's rights. Despite the effort, many of the youth, including you women, are still rejecting the western influence and are sticking to their conservative Islamic beliefs.

The justices let stand an appeals court ruling striking down an Arizona law that made state employees in same-sex relationships ineligible for domestic partner benefits. The Nevada case was a challenge to the state's ban on same-sex marriage. The court did not elaborate on the reason for not taking up the cases.

Children with special needs or a disability have the right to an education and to go to school. In this article, it goes over that in New Orleans, families with children that have a disability are facing a huge problem. Schools are rejecting these students, which is discrimination. The schools that they are sending the children to aren't equipped to teach most of these children, either.

I know in Peoria, AZ a lot of high schools such as Liberty and Sunrise Mountain have special education classrooms for students with disabilities so that they are able to learn at their own pace while still taking in useful information and progressing throughout their years of schooling. I feel as if every school should have programs for these students. Just because they don't learn at the same pace as others, does not mean they should not be able to get an education.

Healthcare is an issue that is present today, especially with the election that just occurred. Some believe that everyone should have free access to healthcare and note that if other countries can do it, so can we. The other believe that it is the individuals personal responsibility to figure out how they are going to get it and believe that universal coverage would be too expensive.

I agree completely. It is possible and other countries have proven it. It's just a matter of rejecting the lobbyists, insurance companies, and pharmaceuticals that make money off of private citizens. Healthcare should be a basic human right and not something that can cause you to go bankrupt.

This pipeline being built and the effects it will have left on the environment is what I do not dare to imagine. While global warming and climate change is such a crucial thing to focus on right now, Donal Trump continues to push everything worse.

Several million children all around the world are often rejected a just and even chance in life because they aren't getting the education that they all need. A few million don't take part in schools, or are wrestling with the ability to find (and/or) stay in one because they cannot afford it or simply because they are spending their time working.