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Can capitalism cure poverty?

Can capitalism cure poverty ?  -  America is more unequal today than ever before, and inequality is on the rise in China and India too. Is capitalism the cause of inequality – or the best ...

California's low spending on schools is set to rise, but is it enough?

California's low spending on schools is set to rise, but is it enough?  - Soaring tax revenues have carried per-pupil education spending in California beyond where it stood before the recession, but even the record sum ...

America's Great Fitness Divide

America's Great Fitness Divide  - To better understand this latter divide, I took a detailed look at the connection between how metros rank on the American Fitness Index™ (AFI) (which ...

Raising minimum wage wrong solution for income inequality

Raising minimum wage wrong solution for income inequality  - Income inequality is a big — if not the biggest — issue for Democrats in the current race for the White House, and ... That's not what America needs.

10 People Who Really Made A Difference In A Landmark Year For LGBT Rights

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10 People Who Really Made A Difference In A Landmark Year For LGBT Rights  - Earlier we reported on the disappointing list of 6 people The Independent published as having made 2015 a landmark year for LGBT rights worldwide.

Caring for LGBTQ youth

Caring for LGBTQ youth  - Youth Pride Clinic, a new unit of Children’s National Health System in Washington, is focused on making sure lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth get the mental health and medical services they need.

LGBTQ Community Still Have Trouble Finding Homes

LGBTQ Community Still Have Trouble Finding Homes  - You could make the argument that life for an LGBTQ individual has never been easier in terms of openness and acceptance. While in many ways ...

ShadowsSpeakUp Instagram Campaign to Raise Awareness for LGBTQ Asylum Seekers

ShadowsSpeakUp Instagram Campaign to Raise Awareness for LGBTQ Asylum Seekers  -  LGBTQ asylum seekers in the U.S. currently suffer from a severe lack of attention and resources. AsylumConnect (a volunteer initiative that seeks to ...

Guidance Counsellors Shun Gay and Lesbian Students

Guidance Counsellors Shun Gay and Lesbian Students  - Research also shows, however, that 50 per cent of LGBTQ individuals do not receive successful counselling intervention becaus of counsellors' ...

Here's How David Bowie Influenced Queer Culture and Helped Us Be OK With Who We Are

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Here's How David Bowie Influenced Queer Culture and Helped Us Be OK With Who We Are  - People from all over the LGBTQ spectrum used social media to express how Bowie helped them feel comfortable in childhood, a time when being ...

LGBTQA Student Resource Center assistant director centers work around students

LGBTQA Student Resource Center assistant director centers work around students  - To be there to fight for them or help them maneuver college and the challenges that come with being LGBTQ on a campus.” Peg Lucas, office ...

Where happy, meets ever after

Where happy, meets ever after  - Greater Fort Lauderdale invites you to exchange wows in Florida's most popular LGBTQ location. Warm and welcoming, there are more than enough ...

The traumatising language of risk in mental health nursing

The traumatising language of risk in mental health nursing  - The continuing focus on risk, well-intentioned as it is in reducing harm and increasing people’s safety, has a stigmatising, and, in some cases, traumatic effect on people using mental health services. It reinforces the myth that people who are mentally unwell are an inevitable risk to society, and that through risk assessment we can minimise

Changing Brain Connectivity May Prevent The Development Of Bipolar Disorder

Changing Brain Connectivity May Prevent The Development Of Bipolar Disorder  - Siblings who did not exhibit the disorder were the resilient ones that ... Our research should give people hope that even though mental illness runs in ...

Thinking Through Sustainable Solutions to Homelessness and Mental Illness

Thinking Through Sustainable Solutions to Homelessness and Mental Illness  - Homeless men and women are more likely to suffer from physical and mental illnesses and become dependent on illegal drugs or alcohol, all of which ...

What Candidates Should Say About Poverty and Opportunity at Ryan's Forum

What Candidates Should Say About Poverty and Opportunity at Ryan's Forum  -  Inequality is closely related to poverty and opportunity ... to poverty than changes in family structure and racial composition in the American population.

Teen girls experience body shame twice as much as boys

Teen girls experience body shame twice as much as boys  - A new online survey conducted by Yahoo Health revealed that the majority of teenage girls are unhappy with their appearance and have low body ...

Could exercise help teens recover from concussions?

Could exercise help teens recover from concussions?  - Concussions often go undiagnosed and unreported, but the National Institutes of Health estimates there are nearly 300,000 sports-related traumatic ...

Low-income communities more likely to face childhood obesity

Low-income communities more likely to face childhood obesity  - The battle to curb childhood obesity is critically tied to understanding its causes and focusing on the modifiable factors that can lead to positive health  ...

Peer support, research and mental illness

Peer support, research and mental illness  - This is based on the proven assumption that only a peer – a person who knows what it's like to live with an illness like bipolar disorder , depression, ...