Reform

The focus for this reform policy will be women, and their part in opioid addiction. In the San Dag website it gives the statistics that of those who were arrested while intoxicated on opiates were 15% white, and arrestees were also most likely to be under the age of 25 and…

Issue: Government Programs, from the SIRS data base, government programs have raised taxes and placed more of the economic burden on the states causing an increase in dependency amongst Americans. Recognizing the offense taken and desire for welfare reform, I do my best to empathize. Nonetheless, the amount of people that would be impacted negatively by the eradication of government programs is sizably larger than the amount of people wanting to do away with them. Public government programs are…

journalism owe their career path to Nellie Bly. Bly was a famous journalist who traveled the world in 72 days, prompted social reforms and was the first women in her field. She pioneered investigative journalism which is a branch of journalism. Investigative journalism is gathering many sources and going very in depth on a subject that is a current issue or to prompt social reform. Bly chose current social issues of her time and was able to get her sources to tell her what they really wanted to…

As our one-way ticket into the professional world, each American citizen needs an excellent education. And yet, less than half of American school kids are proficient in the core subjects of math, science, and reading for their respective grade levels. Despite the implementation of countless relief programs, namely George Bush 's "No Child Left Behind" act of 2001, children are failing in school, dropping out, and no improvement in test scores can be seen. The US Department of Education is…

Numbers do not lie. Louisiana is currently the world’s prison capital, holding more people in prison than any other U.S state by far. However, there is a living, breathing animal behind these numbers that must be brought to light. Why are so many people incarcerated for such long periods of times? What effects does mass imprisonment bring down (or up?) on the economy? This large scale imprisonment of American citizens may have beneficial monetary factors, but merely bandages a gaping wound that…

In today’s economy, there is an outrageous demand for health insurance. President Obama has signed a reform for citizens without medical health insurance. Since the reform has been passed, controversy has been split into those who support it and those who don’t. Others believe that it will worsen the economy and the opposing side will argue that those who don’t have coverage may now benefit from it. Even though citizens should have a choice to a health coverage rather than being forced to have…

just like any policy there can always be some difficulties. Our health reform that was signed, March 23, 2010, has made an immense of difference for those individuals that can have access to that care and made affordable. Even with the health reform as mentioned by Gebbie (2012), “It also leaves the U.S. as the country that spends more in both total dollars and per capita dollars than any other nation” (p. 147). This health reform it is quite momentous, but we are the only country that does not…

During the nineteenth century there was a movement to reform institutions in the United States to state mental hospitals. An important individual in the reforming of America's mental institutions was a Massachusetts schoolteacher named Dorothea Lynde Dix. In her investigations of the privately funded institutions for the mentally ill that were only available for the wealthy, she discovered horrendous living conditions. Therefore she advocated for publicly funded state hospitals (Millon et al.,…

introduce prison reforms (Timeline: Prisons in England, 2006). Later prison reforms brought about paid jailers, and prison inspectors, eventually resulting in salaried prison staff and the appointed of staff based on merit (Timeline: Prisons in England, 2006). The Prison Act (1877) brought local prisons under the control of the central government and created a Board of Prison Commissioners, including Sir Edmund Du Cane (Terrill, 2015). Finally, in 1879 John Howard adopted reforms that…

near a place of judgment. By observing her general to specific structure and broad and controversial logic, Painter’s thesis of that Progressive Era in America was an era of recreating the ideas of economic equality, social injustices, and political reform through the citizen’s…