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Psychological Effects of Poverty Just As Bad As Physical
For the 46.5 million Americans living below the poverty line, 16 million of which are children, life has become a consistent struggle. This struggle does not simply begin and end with monetary concern ...
23 May, 2014
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Pennsylvania Independents Demand Equal Access to Elections
"Today, I and many other citizens of Pennsylvania will be denied the right to vote," independent Pennsylvania voter Tom Stack wrote in a letter to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "It is not because we ar ...
20 May, 2014
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VA Scandal One More Problem of Accountability for Obama Administration
The hits just keep coming for Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki. For weeks, stories of the deplorable policies and procedures in place at VA Medical Centers across the country have continued to ...
20 May, 2014
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Millennials: How to Tap into The Youngest Generation of Voters
While the nation prepares for the midterm elections this November, there is a group that could sway the deciding factor -- Millennials. According to a recent poll by Harvard, 37 percent of Millennials ...
16 May, 2014
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4 min read
5 States Likely to Become Battleground States by 2016
Presidential politics are all about numbers, from campaign spending, third party interest funding, and electoral votes (EV). Battleground states, by definition, shift the winning side every 4 years or ...
30 Apr, 2014
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Majority of Americans Say Major Parties Don't Represent Them
The United States is once again in the middle of a major election year and in many elections, people will go the polls with only two options to choose from -- red or blue, Republican or Democrat ...
25 Apr, 2014
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Will Nick Troiano Become the First Millennial Leader in Congress?
The greatest issue faced by this generation is the hyper-partisan gridlock formed between the two major parties. Fortunately, from the conflict also comes a new generation of fresh, independent leader ...
04 Mar, 2014
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4 min read
Election Commission vs. Public Schools: Balancing Public Safety and Voter Accessibility
With the November general election a few months away and several primary and special elections ahead, the Presidential Commission on Election Administration released a report in January outlining seve ...
19 Feb, 2014
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A More Inclusive Presidential Primary Would Motivate Voters to Participate
It seems that in every cycle there is debate about which states should hold the first presidential primary elections. Some state always seems to try to jump ahead of Iowa and New Hampshire. Since 1972 ...
13 Feb, 2014
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Voter ID Is Not About Fraud; It Is About Voter Suppression
On January 16, Gene Berardelli wrote an article for IVN titled, "Hard evidence supports the need for Voter ID laws." While this is a common argument among proponents of voter ID, the existence of har ...
05 Feb, 2014
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