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Great topic to consider. In relation to the recent shootings, states are rethinking the cuts on mental health hospitals. There is already a 20 percent budget increase.

this is a very interesting article talking about what the effects of the so called "rich" tax cuts means to every tax bracket.

The article goes over many of the issues that parents, teachers, and children are having with common core. Parents are noticing children having an increased stressed level which they attribute to common core. In the authors opinion, teachers are required to follow a script, for fear of job loss. Some programs have also been cut from school like PE and Music.

No six year old or any child should be stressed out about school until at least high school. The core is defiantly not a good thing to have for any education.

the fact that schools have to cut programs just to support this "teaching style/ criteria" is insane. Music and gym and various other activities are ways for kids to get out of the cultural norm of academia and express themselves. I cant even imagine what my school would of been like without those things.

A day after demanding Washington lawmakers extend middle-class tax cuts while raising taxes on the wealthy, President Obama took his case directly to voters Tuesday, traveling to Iowa to argue that the rich should pay higher taxes in order to cut the deficit and fund his spending priorities.

This article says that 98 percent of Americans want the tax hike, where as the 2 percent it will effect does not. This 98 percent number is outrageous, especially if they are adding me into the mix. It also brings up that the small businesses that we are trying to support are the most effected by the tax hike.

The art of scarification through cutting and branding has been a form of body modification since the 1870s. Over the past ten years or so professional scaring has become a popular trend. It is much easier to hide in the workplace and is a beautiful site once healed.

IS it wrong to try to make cuts on teh medicaid program in teh state of Arizona becsue it takes a larger portion of the states budget.

the governor is trying to relay ads to teenagers about the dangers of smoking. but local groups would rather not spend their tax dollars

Senator proposes a bill to cut parent's assistance if kids skip class or perform poorly in school.

WASHINGTON - Separate smoking sections don't cut it: Only smoke-free buildings and public places truly protect nonsmokers from the hazards of breathing in other people's tobacco smoke, says a long-awaited surgeon general's report. Some 126 million nonsmokers are exposed to secondhand smoke, what U.S.

Is it cutting-edge, or just downright creepy? Surveillance technology is increasingly being implemented in municipalities across the country. But while such gadgets aim to curtail crime and decrease traffic accidents, some people are wondering about the costs to both town budgets and privacy.

This website explains the effect the law is having on Adjunts. Their credit hours are being cut so that employers don't have to provide insurance.

Yes. Freedom is simply doing or not doing whatever one pleases. Always are the consequences to be aware of. The state wants to cut down on its death stastics.

As time goes on more and more people as well as children are becoming obese, the thoughts of removing physical education as a budget cut in schools would directly impact these amounts more. Kids should have the option for physical education in schools.

A federal court of appeals denied Texas from enacting its voting rights law. This case is one of many to cut back on strict voting laws in Texas. Many say the law is discriminatory and then pro voter ID law people say that it has noting to do with minorities or poor people. They say that is all suggested by the people who just do not want the law. Texas has two options and they are to make changes to the previous law or go straight to the supreme court.

In April, the Senate rejected the Toomey-Manchin gun control proposal. In the wake of its defeat many wonder why give this a chance to be passed. Trying to make every gun legal to buy wont be easy to do. Creating the right to purchase a firearm no short cuts. Make it difficult for people who do not have license to sell them on the streets.