““Food insecurity is one of the factors accounted for when measuring basic needs. Basic needs include access to nutritious and sufficient food; safe, secure, and adequate housing; access to mental and physical healthcare; affordable technology and transportation; resources for personal hygiene; and childcare and related needs,” said Natalia Rivadeneyra, the assistant director of advocacy at Nazun, an organization focused on ending hunger and food insecurity on college campuses.“
Read More“Non-competes have a purpose: increase investment in employees and protect firms’ intellectual property. But they have many negative consequences as well. After years of state regulation of non-competes, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has caught on and proposed to ban them.“
Read More“Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida is facing backlash as he continues to stand by his decision to ban an AP course on African American studies for schools in Florida. It began when DeSantis made his initial announcement of the ban in mid-January with a letter from the state education department to the College Board. This is just the most recent effort by DeSantis to limit the teaching of race in the Florida school system, despite the objection of numerous groups.”
Read More“The problem persists with the new precedent still being tested in its meaning, with each side arguing for different interpretations, and, by extension, the constitutionality of the law. “
Read More“Roughly six months later, the post-Roe landscape has shifted. Since this decision, 24 states have banned or are likely to ban abortion. While these bans are newer, the reality of a lack of access is not a new concept for marginalized and minority groups. People of color are overrepresented in those seeking abortion services, creating the opportunity for this group to be disproportionately affected by these bans.”
Read More“Live Nation Entertainment has gained significant market control over primary ticketing and live event venues, with the Department of Justice watching from the sidelines. Now, activists, politicians and consumers demand trust busting action.“
Read More“After proving to be a thorn in the side of the Democratic caucus by refusing to eliminate the filibuster, holding up key Democratic priorities, and insisting on trimming down Democratic spending bills, Senator Sinema announced that she will switch her party affiliation from Democratic to Independent… In a closely-divided state like Arizona, an Independent like Sinema running could siphon votes away from the Democratic candidate, allowing Republicans to capture a Senate seat, possibly give them a Senate majority.”
Read More“Biden, who was elected to his post at 78 years old, is subjected to constant attacks about his advanced age and its impacts on his profession. A problem arises when people pose different reactions when discussing Trump’s age, who, if elected in 2024, will also be 78. The question now is: how will Republicans play around with this fact?“
Read MoreBrooklyn Nets’ point guard and NBA superstar, Kyrie Irving, was recently suspended from the league and Nike following a tweet he shared which contained a link to an anti-semetic documentary. In the weeks after the tweet both Irving and the League are still dealing with the fallout from the incident. Many people in both the press and on social media have chimed in to give their opinion on the matter
Read More“Beginning in 2014, Students for Fair Admissions, a nonprofit organization aimed at ensuring students are given equal chance at admissions in their college selection process, have successfully brought a case against the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Harvard University over Affirmative Action.“
Read More“Georgia has consequential federal and state-level races on the ballot this year, including a marquee Senate race between incumbent Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Hershel Walker, a former University of Georgia football player and a recipient of the Heisman trophy (R-GA), as well as a rematch between incumbent Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA) and Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams (D-GA), who hopes her efforts to increase voter access, protection, and registration since her close loss in the 2018 election will create a path to victory.”
Read More“While the Income-Driven Student Loan Forgiveness Act will help many Americans today, it simultaneously admits the inherent need for change in our Department of Education. If Americans want to see a future with growing numbers of college graduates, we have to act now. Congress must be urged to make longstanding policy on the student debt crisis rather than create more short-term fixes.“
Read More“Suicide rates represent a breakdown of economic and emotional stability and a failure of social structures to adequately reconcile the effects of that instability in an uncertain world.”
Read More“Only recently having left the world of mask mandates, vaccines, work at home orders, and increased prices, the state of the dollar must be preserved in an already weakened economy. With inflation the highest in over forty years, having been capped in July at 9.1%, additive changes such as loan forgiveness will seek to halt its decline back to the recommended 2%.”
Read More“One of the potential versions of the legislation, sponsored by Senators Jon Ossoff and Mark Kelly, stipulates that lawmakers, their spouses and dependent children would be prohibited from individually investing in stock, bonds, cryptocurrencies and other financial assets tied to particular companies. Alternatively, the legislation would also force members of Congress to divest or move assets into a blind trust, where they would have no involvement in managing the profitability of their investments and require lawmakers to provide detailed transaction summaries for permitted investments.“
Read More“One month after Biden’s announcement of his student debt relief act, The Department of Education quietly changed the eligibility guidelines for commercially held loans, leaving 2.2 million private borrowers with little information and no path forward.”
Read More“In 2020, a group of the company’s lawyers began searching for alternate ownership methods to answer the question of Chouinard’s eventual succession. Chouinard wanted to “go purpose,” not public. Going public would have been chaotic, in his eyes, because shareholders’ motivation for short-term profit would have drowned out the company’s mission of sustainability and workers’ rights“
Read More“Former president Trump is facing an uphill battle after the FBI raid on his Mar-a-lago property failed to recover all of the missing documents that are in his possession. As the National Archives works to find the remaining documents Trump is under more and more fire from the press. This story broke a month before the 2022 midterm elections, but will it hurt the Republican party as they attempt to gain back seats they lost in the 2020 general election?”
Read More“This midterm year is anything but typical. With Covid-19 cases on the decline but still persisting, rising inflation, and abounding culture wars, the midterms were shaping up to be a referendum on the Biden era of government, with prospects looking like Democrats would lose big in both houses of Congress. But, over the summer, things started to shift.”
“Make no mistake, inflation, the economy, and the recession question will remain in the news cycle for months to come. These topics greatly affect the American people so it will likewise dominate political discourse as Covid moves to the backburner. Expect the political blame game to go on before, during, and after the 2022 election season. Still, consider the greater effects of a recession. People lose jobs, homes, and sometimes even their lives. We can only hope the government can use its tools to effectively avoid that prospect.”
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