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Kentucky and North Carolina have passed Racial Justice Acts to counter systemic racial bias in the unfair sentencing of African Americans to the death penalty for killing whites. Statistical data shows there's is significant bias in the administration of the death penalty yet in two major cases before the Supreme Court, the Court ruled in favor of systemic injustice and upheld the death penalty in both cases. The Racial Justice Acts passed by Kentucky and North Carolina are a step in the right direction to remove systemic bias.

The welfare system was designed to help the american family that needed a little extra help. With the ever changing use of this system this site talks about how welfare needs to change as well.

If we had Universal Healthcare, no one would go with out seeing a doctor when they need to, or getting medicine they need to survive. We would also spend less money on healthcare. It would also prevent less medical errors, which would save more lives

The prison system and its flaws is one that is much overlooked in today's society as far as problems that could be fixed. This article explains the flaws and the fixations that should happen I considered this a personal freedom because even thought hey are prisoners , they have the right to still be treated as human beings.

history of the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) prior to 1984 and the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) since 1984.

The goal of this site is to provide all the necessary tools for students to conduct research and to present their findings. Site provides a Quick Click to Search Engines, annotated Research, Writing, and Style Guides (MLA, APA, Chicago, Turabian, CGOS, CBE, Harvard), and Worlds of Knowledge housing some of the best education Web sites in a Virtual Library arranged by the Dewey Decimal Classification System.

This article discusses the mediocrity of public schooling and the how it stream lines the childs mind, not allowing creative thought. It compares the education of our founding fathers and their passion for learning with our modern day system which has lead to the American public being complacent about education and the state of our country.

Oregon has a system in place for people to make some choices about their end of life care and whether they want to have their lives sustained or not. The state has set up a database for EMT's and doctors to make it easier to follow the wishes of the patients. Most patients who fill out the POLSR don't want to be resuscitated.

this a good source to learn about flat tax.  it would be a great alternative to are system that we have now  

This website answers many questions regarding food and politics including what's wrong with our current food system that's led my small corporations and media giants.

The U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a fifth graders right to distribute invitations to her church's Christmas party. The school had banned the student from distributing the invitations citing the invitations contained religious materials. The court's decision was based on the First Amendment's right to free speech.

I agree that student's should be able to learn of and encourage the religious beliefs of their classmates. How do we expect to raise well rounded individuals if we raise them to treat religion with such a hush hush attitude?

Being in a public school system, no religion should be enforced at all. These were Christmas invitations, inviting the students to a church event imposing the Christian belief system. This could have been done outside of school or elsewhere. This situation would only be okay if it was conducted in a private religious school, where public money does not fund the institution.

This article is based on a speech former president Bill Clinton gave in June of this year about healthcare. He states facts about how our country spends so much more on healthcare then other countries. He talks about how if we adopted a Universal Healthcare System like countries such as France and Canada have, then we would save a lot of money.

This talks about what exactly Universal Healthcare is. It gives facts of how this system works in different countries ho already use it. It also gives statistics

Individuals are finding another way to educate their children. As each state has an education law that requires children to but in school. With home education children have the ability to learn and embrace their interests.

In this article, the author talks about the public schooling system as a forced act on our society that actually makes the future of education worse for us. Instead of letting our children think for themselves, learn the trades they wish to learn, and force them to attend for a certain amount of time, we are taking away their personal freedoms of education. Many people are pushed to thinking that a set school rubric will help every child to get the education they need for their future, but according to the views of the author, they don't. The author's view is that society should be looking more into home schooling and trade schooling to help the United States grow to be more productive for the future. Every generation, school is seen more as a prison; molding our future to think as the way the government wants them to think. But if we were to give freedom to complete schooling outside of force, children will regain their excitement for learning and pursue to better our nation on their own free will.

An interesting article on the state of our education system and how the direction we have gone with it seems to be lacking. Lending itself to breaking the ideas that people have about how a child "must" learn, the article offers up that those ideas are not often the case.

This site offers information on how they have created a system that helps people diagnose their genes, however the gene patents are in the way of allowing this system to help people.

The school system needs to be more proactive as well as the parents

Immigration has become an increasingly popular issue, especially in Arizona. But Congress sees a light at the end of the tunnel, and hope new pathways regarding legal citizenship should clear this year.

The healthcare system should really be able to check the immigration status of patients, from experience it makes it uncomfortable for others in the hospital. We recently went into the hospital and it felt like a party was going on in labor and delivery waiting room when there was about 20 people in there screaming at a football game. No matter how many times the nurse went in, the noise did not go away at all.

This article is of President Obama's proposal discusses the changes that he plans for our health care. He wants to expand medical care to everyone in hopes to prevent many illnesses. Doing this he hopes to save millions of dollars and greatly improve our current health care system.

The article explains the reform of the health care system regarding to the costs and the most significant changes that come along with it.

In this article, the author is giving all the background and recent changes to the Healthcare reform bill. He is also stating the average amount this will cost the federal government and what other programs will be affected by it.