Politics Archive
It seems we’ve reached a serious moment in the fight for food access and food justice in the United States today with a 15-5 vote by the Senate Agricultural Committee in favor of a $4.7 Billion cut to our Supplemental Nutrition Assistance …
There is an old saying: “you can’t have your cake and eat it too.” There are policy choices to be made and you must decide at some point what is most important to you. If you want healthy children then …
Two parties were thrown by University of Southern California students and were occurring on the same street at the same time. One party was predominantly made up of White students, the other was predominately made up of Black students. One of the parties was …
It is disheartening to think it takes the death of a teenager for legislation to be created. At the same time, I was very happy to read in Huffington Post Canada that the province of Nova Scotia is implementing cyberbullying …
It’s hard sometimes to believe that our words have meanings, especially in politics when so many decisions are made based on where the money rests. On Monday, one member of Nevada’s Senate proved just how important our words and lives …
Oregon just might be the next state to join the National Popular Vote Bill Movement. For those not familiar, the Bill would “guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes in the entire United States. The bill …
The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or CISPA, was first put forward in 2011 as a response to the increasing dangers of cyber-warfare. It defines something called “cyber threat intelligence” (CTI), which is essentially information about networks, either government …
If there were wagering on the passage of legislation, many people would be profiting from the defeat of the proposed gun control bill. Why? Back in February the Sunlight Foundation not only predicted a bill wouldn’t pass, they also predicted which …
Today marks the first ever National Youth HIV and AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD) in the United States, a day founded by Advocates for Youth’s Amplify Project in an effort to: “to educate the public about the impact of HIV and AIDS …
The Congressional Institute for Social Work and Policy(CRISP) is a new organization that aims to draw the social work profession more intimately into the legislative process in Washington. CRISP has recently launched a website that provides a detailed description of who they are …
