United States federal legislation

This bubble had more to do with human behavior and government intervention than it did with the principles of supply and demand. Freddie Mac, Ginnie Mae, The Federal Reserve, banking regulators, and various other political and government entities all had agendas that served their needs, but may have even been working against each other to try and get the housing market or the economy to do what they felt they…

Almost forty years ago, president Nixon declared drugs abuse as a threat to national security or “public enemy number 1,” launching the United States into one of the most costly “wars” its ever fought. The presence and size of federal drug enforcement were increased as long as pushing for mandatory sentencing among other striker jailing laws. When Reagan came into the office, it marked the start of ballooning rates of incarceration and costs due to the expansion of the effort to fight drugs. The…

Policies dividing states already troubled by discrimination and gross systemic inequality are perplexing and illogical, more so in countries already plagued by multiple types of division. A special case of this type of rule is the Republic of India, in which the country is divided politically as the cause of different regions taking on different identities through the recognition of multiple languages as being national. This has led to many regions institutionally standardizing different…

It was initiated because the federal government felt as if there was lack of standardization in schools. Common Core began first with the college-and-career readiness standards. It was then transformed into the K-12 standards that it is today. Common Core is a nationwide standard system…

privacy of internet users. For this analysis I will analyze the policies that were implemented by the government after the September eleventh attacks. The first actor, and crucial actor in the development of privacy in a post-9/11 world, is the United States government. Their policies affected the internet users and forced developers to comply with their policies. One shall see that each actor had their own reasons for participating in the discussion of internet…

Racism in American society has been deeply engrained into the cultural norms since colonialization. Racism has infiltrated every facet of our lives, including in the medical field. This medical racism was particularly portrayed by the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments, which occurred from 1932-1972. The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment and its relationship with governmental organizations represent the idea that racism is deeply engrained in American society and the discontinuation of the study portrays…

It is understood by many that “... sex work is the world’s oldest profession,...” (Picard). How to deal with prostitution has long been debated. This difficult debate has resulted in many problems within the conviction of prostitutes and their customers. The unequal conviction between prostitutes and buyers exists because of discrimination. This can be solved by keeping the buying of prostitution illegal, but making the sale legal. The main problem within prostitution is the unequal conviction…

Marijuana legalization would reduce drug crimes. In turn allowing the police the opportunity to focus more harmful, addictive drugs out of the U.S., instead of sentencing people who were caught with 1 gram of marijuana to a mandatory minimum sentence in federal prison. Most often marijuana violations are minor but have major consequences,“roughly 600,000, or 87 percent of marijuana arrest are for nothing more than possession of small amounts” (Nadelmann 77). “A majority…

This investigation stems from Dr. Fonn self-reporting that he his privileges had been suspended for 30 days from a hospital in Cape Girardeau, MO. It was due to alleged conflict of interest and federal prosecution for Anti-Kickback law violations. He also answered positive to remuneration for two cases in the past year. A case was opened. *** On 012-16-2014, the Board office received an application for Missouri Medical License from Dr. Sonjay J. Fonn, DO of Cape Girardeau, MO. In filing for…

While it is natural to believe that the government is not as malicious as the story states, in the past few years there has been a surge of knowledge about the government’s “stalkerish” behavior. For example, in a NY Times article the reporters states, “The N.S.A. broke federal privacy laws, or exceeded its authority, thousands of times per year, according to the agency’s own internal auditor”(The Editorial Board). The National…