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Delving Into Trump’s Immigration Policy: The Real State of Affairs
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The vast majority of Americans will never forget Trump’s cruel separation of families at the border between May and June, neither will they forgive him for the very fact he is not a politician but a businessman. In 2016, however, when the results of the presidential elections were not yet clear, some people could be seen holding posters that read “The silent majority stands with Trump.” Today, they are silent no more. The nation can speak its mind with no judgment: after all, Trump is just the “cartoon president” with “it costs too much” mentality. Let’s dig deeper into hi...
Societal Racism and Depressingly High Infant Mortality Rates Among Black Women: Is There a Link?
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In a country where more women are dying from pregnancy-related causes than in any other developed nation in the world, Black women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), are three to four times more likely to be at risk than their white, non-Hispanic counterparts, while the death rate for infants born to black mothers is more than twice that of infants born to white, non-Hispanic infants. Researchers say this is largely due to implicit and explicit racial bias, both in the health-care system and in society. “She was so beautiful — she reminded...
Phenomenon of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women Has Become an Epidemic in the US
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Native American women in the United States experience some of the highest rates of sexual assault in the Nation: four out of five are expected to encounter violence in their lifetimes; one in three are raped in their lifetime; and the murder rates of Native women exceed ten times the national average in some tribal and urban communities. US authorities gather missing person statistics for every demographic except for Native American women. Although there is no accurate real-time data detailing the rates of missing and murdered indigenous women, communities on and off reser...
Student Loan Debt
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Significant financial burdens caused by the severe student loan crisis in the U.S. (link to the previous material) are impacting the ways Americans save, spend and live their lives ...and have inspired them to create new non-standard methods of staying afloat. A new game show, Paid Off with Michael Torpey that premiered July 10th on truTV is giving students the chance to compete on TV to have their debt paid off. “Paid Off” is a kind of traditional game show like “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” but it has a decidedly more practical premise: win money to pay off your stu...
Generation Debt: “I Think About My Student Loans and Cry”
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The United States is among the few developed countries that do not offer free postsecondary education. It’s 2018 and Americans are more burdened by student loan debt than ever. Over the last decade, college-loan balances in the United States have jumped more than $833 billion to reach an all-time high of $1.5 trillion spread out among about 45 million borrowers (more than 70% of bachelor’s degree recipients). The scale of outstanding student loans and an increasing share of borrowers who fail to repay have made many Americans aware that student debt is a challenge for soc...
241 Years in Prison for Teenage Crimes. The Story of Bobby Bostic
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The Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of Bobby Bostic, a man from Missouri who was found guilty of 18 criminal charges in 1995 when he was just 16 years old. It has been 21 years now since Bobby’s imprisonment. He is 39 and will not be eligible for parole until he is 112 years old, which is in fact equal to a life sentence for non-homicide offenses. This is was the “adult time for adult crime” mentality of the 1980s and 1990s that resulted in Bobby’s sentence being so long, he now knows first-hand how destructive the maximum weight of the adult criminal justice sys...