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centers run by their respective self-governed affiliates. However, following the surfacing of some controversial videos in early July, the necessity of the funding which Planned Parenthood receives from the US government was brought into question. Hence, Congress began a hearing to remove the federal funding which Planned Parenthood is reimbursed for its services. The controversy presented in the videos had to do with Planned Parenthood selling aborted fetuses to companies using them for…

The social welfare policy the aid to dependent children is a policy that is relevant to the social work field. This was a federal assistance program and it was in effect from 1935 to 1996. The program was created by the Social Security Act and administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The aid to dependent children policy provided financial assistance to children whose families had low or no income. This is relevant to social work practice because the social work…

The role of government in the United States is to provide for its people, and to pay for broken roads, pay for education, make sure that everyone has a job to get a home in the United States, and to make sure that our country is secure. Some rights and freedoms that the government must protect are that a government must protect the freedom of people to choose, change and remove State's political, administrative and economic systems in my opinion. One obligation that a government have to its…

Although, nonviolent, and most acts of hacktivist are illegal, or at least uncertain legally, leading most of the perpetrators to act anonymously. Therefore, in this time of day and age many people feel that justice is not guaranteed by the laws of United States of America, some view these hacktivists as heroic who use their tech wizard to defend the public good.…

Common Core and the Controversy Every decade encompasses a movement passing laws helping with the advancement of education. The Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of the 1960s provided federal funds to low income students assisting them with attending public school. The Improving Ameri- ca’s Schools Act (IASA) of the 1990s beefed up Title I, increased funding for bilingual educa- tion, and allocated provisions for dropout prevention. No Child Left Behind (NC LB) came about in the…

How States May Label GMOs Vermont is in the rulemaking process to determine what will be required on GMO product labels. Currently, Vermont’s regulation states that GMO labels may be located anywhere they can easily be found on the package. There also are guidelines on what size and color the label can be (VT Digger, 2015). So far Vermont’s Attorney General’s Office has decided that manufactures will have to label any packaged food items, unpackaged food items, including fruit and vegetables,…

who must deal with these issues and move to help in any way they can. This is obviously why we have so many charities in the world, but it is also the reason for the existence of the United States government’s foreign aid programs, namely the United States Agency for International Development. This is our government freely donating literally billions of dollars every year to troubled nations worldwide. It has been going on for about 50 years now and has escalated to about $50 billions donated…

Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny’s academic journal article, “The Economics of U.S Immigration Policy,” Orrenius and Zavodny state that Americans’ outlook on immigration vary from those who believe immigrants (legal and illegal) positively impact the economy and those who believe immigrants negatively impact the economy. Pia Orrenius and Madeline Zavodny’s argue that the United States needs to implement an “immigration policy that addresses the concerns” about low-skill, unauthorized “immigration’s…

great crime in the history of the United States, President Andrew Jackson has managed to bring continual destruction to our nation. For three main reasons were the charges placed upon President Jackson; the first reason, in which Pres. Jackson destroyed the separation of powers by illegally increasing the pre-established powers of a President. For the second justification, was when he weakened the federal system of government by impairing the power of state governments. And the final occasion,…

The future has many aspects in store in term of white-collar crimes. The first characteristic of white-collar crime the future has in store is that if it continues to cost the United States billions of dollars each year, the U.S. justice department will develop new ideas and techniques to combat it. The second aspect the future also has is that Wall Street top executives will be held responsible for crimes committing within their corporation with or without their prior knowledge in the future…