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This Teen Successfully Sued Her School for Banning Her Pro- LGBT Shirt  - As many as 40% of the homeless population are LGBT youth. ... In the video , McLaurin is visibly overcome with glee upon meeting Obama, who then ...

There are twice as many LGBTQ people in prison as in the general population  - The number of people in prison or jail who identify as LGBTQ is roughly twice that of their general population. And whereas about 8 percent of all ...

The 2016 RFRA Decline Is Due to the Difficulty of Selling Discrimination and Child Endangerment ...  - But the Senate then beefed up the bill with rights for believers to discriminate against LGBTQ couples (SB 284): it now would “prohibit discriminatory ...

5 Times Hollywood Got Mental Health and Mental Illness Right  - The entertainment industry has a long history of portraying characters with mental illness in an insensitive manner. Studies indicate that characters in ...

Our Kids reveals American class inequality - with has all-too-evident parallels here  - Putnam touches on some striking features of the new inequality , from the rapid growth of a black and Latino middle class to how the better-off are more ...

New Tax Guide Designed to Help LGBTQ Communities  - The tax guide is designed to help LGBTQ taxpayers understand how the tax code fits into their lives. For example, they may be able to claim credits for ...

'You are in, when you're out' video promotes RVA to LGBTQ tourists  - In an effort to promote Richmond as a friendly travel destination for LGBTQ tourists, Richmond Region Tourism recently produced ...

Australian School Allowing Cross-Dressing, Condemned as Radical  - An Australian high school has created a national furor by allowing students to wear boy or girl uniforms, regardless of gender. An education ...

Teen With Terminal Cancer Marries His Girlfriend  - A Pennsylvania teenager with terminal cancer married his girlfriend on ... Luke was healthy enough to walk down the aisle by himself, without his ...

Babies born to teens the lowest in 25 years  - Last year's figures are less than half the 853 babies born to teen mums in 2005, ... Health Ministry figures show that the number of youth under 20 who ...

A Key to Community Health and Well-Being?  - In Vermont, where I live, more than 70% of children 0 to 5 years of age are in a child care setting outside their home. Yet, efforts to improve child health  ...

Poorly Funded Mental Healthcare Doing More Damage than Good  - The study also said that one in four adults is diagnosed with at least one mental health problem and that mental disorder accounts for "the largest ...

Psychiatry And Anti-Psychiatry  - For people with severe mental illness - eg chronic schizophrenia or bipolar disorder- a broad biopsychosocial model is necessary to understand ...

10 commonly abused psychology words  - Well, maybe it's time to know what all these mental -health-related words are really supposed to mean, and what the disorders they name really involve ...

Is There a Connection Between Entrepreneurship and Mental Illness ?  - While not a business book per se, her work does have relevance as more people are becoming aware of mental illness as a workplace issue.

Wall Street's Message to Young Adults: "You are Clueless"  - It turns out that Wall Street is worried that Bernie is pushing Hillary Clinton to take inequality seriously because younger Americans take inequality  ...