United States
The Clean Energy Corps
Dave — Mon, 02/09/2009 - 11:07The Clean Energy Corps is a program that will provide jobs and job training in the new green economy. It is designed to simultaneously stimulate the currently sagging economy, begin the important process of addressing global climate change, and provide a pathway for low-income and unemployed people toward good paying jobs with a reliable future.
Cooperative Housing that Includes Income Producing Businesses
Mintza — Thu, 01/22/2009 - 12:32I propose that the federal government subsidize part of the original investment needed to develop a national network of unusually comprehensive housing cooperatives. Long-term fixed-interest government loans would be needed to help with the costs of purchasing, renovating and maintaining the property and to pay for the necessary training and salaries of resident employees until the earned income of community businesses can cover their costs. The project's intention would be to provide for most of its residents' social and economic needs, as well as for their housing.
Proposition 2, the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act
Yes on Prop 2 - Californians for Human Farms — Mon, 08/25/2008 - 15:30This November 4, Californians should vote YES! on Prop 2 – a modest measure that stops cruel and inhumane treatment of animals, ending the practice of cramming farm animals into cages so small the animals can't even turn around, lie down or extend their limbs.
Cramming Animals Into Tiny Cages is Cruel and Inhumane
Yes on Prop 2 - Californians for Human Farms — Mon, 08/25/2008 - 15:11It is common practice on factory farms to cram animals into cages so small the animals can’t even turn around or extend their limbs.
- Veal crates
In order to produce veal, most calves are taken from their mothers when they are just hours or days old and then tethered by their necks in crates too narrow for them to turn around or even lie down comfortably. Virtually immobilized and prevented from engaging in natural behavior, they suffer immensely. - Gestation crates
Grassroots Conversation on Health Care
Dave — Fri, 01/02/2009 - 20:06Additions to this text are italicized and underlined
On December 30, 2008, twenty-eight of us gathered in Staten Island, New York to discuss the problems with the health care system, and to brainstorm what could be done about it. Here are the areas we discussed:
- What does the group perceive as the biggest problem in the health system?
Our Republic Raped and Still No Revolution!
Joel S. Hirschhorn — Mon, 09/22/2008 - 14:38Are Americans ready for a revolution? What worse than the current meltdown of the financial sector, the unraveling of our economy, and burdening us and future generations with astounding debt is needed to convince Americans that the two-party plutocracy has sold out ordinary Americans? What we are witnessing is far worse than the taxation without representation that spurred the American Revolution. Taxation with MISrepresentation is a greater evil and shameful sellout of democracy that so many Americans have fought and died for.
Uncaging the Truth
Wayne Pacelle — Mon, 08/25/2008 - 16:12Forum topic related to:
This past week, I campaigned in California for Proposition 2—the November ballot initiative to combat the intensive confinement of certain animals on factory farms. In the middle of the trip was a public forum in San Luis Obispo before several members of the Senate and Assembly Agriculture Committees, led by Senator Abel Maldonado and including Prop 2 supporter Senator Dean Florez.
The more than 500,000 children currently in foster care are among the most at-risk children in American society
Dan Lips — Thu, 07/03/2008 - 22:10Research shows that adults who were formerly in foster care are more likely than the general population to succumb to poor life outcomes.
- They are more likely to be homeless, unprepared for employment and limited to low-skill jobs, and dependent on welfare or Medicaid.
- They are also more likely than the general population to be convicted of crimes and incarcerated, to abuse drugs and alcohol, or to have poor physical or mental health.
alcohol, young kids
mariyahramonex — Mon, 06/02/2008 - 16:12Forum topic related to:
they should start a program for people younger than 18.
there are kids that start drinking at a younger and younger age
and it would be better to start helping them at that age then later in life.
Current drinking laws infantilize young adults
John McCardell — Mon, 06/02/2008 - 16:00Under current policy, any state that chooses to set its drinking age under 21 must forfeit 10% of its annual federal highway appropriation. Since this amounts to tens of millions of dollars in most states, state level changes in drinking age policy are effectively limited until Congress opts to issue a waiver to states interested in revising their underage drinking policies.
This problem is adapted from content originally published on the Choose Responsibility website, where you can read more about it.
