According to a study conducted by graduate students at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service, the city boasts one of the lowest voter turnout rates of any metropolis in the United States.
Community colleges are increasingly emerging as a feasible alternative to getting a degree. A survey of students at community colleges nationwide found that 60 percent of students who transfer go on to eventually attain bachelor degrees.
California's correctional system has received a federal order to release 9,600 prisoners by December. Administrators are no longer able to avoid releasing inmates early and the governor claims the terms are too strict for the system's rate of change.
So! Where do you sit on the issue of global climate change; on the right side of the table or on the other side? Whichever side you choose, there’s food for thought as we explore the sources of global climate change. But the food is a scarce resource, so choose wisely.
Dramatic change in the area of the Great Salt Lake over the past 25 years. Left: August 1985. Right: September 2010. The lake was filled to near capacity in 1985 because feeder streams were charged with snowmelt and heavy rainfall. In contrast, the 2010 image shows the lake shriveled by drought. // Credit : USGS Landsat Missions Gallery
Welcome to the 2013 Crony Capitalist Awards: Senate Edition. For these awards we define crony capitalism as the disproportionate influence by special interests (non-individuals) on elected officials. One of the founding principles of our country was no taxation without representation. Having to “pay to play” is merely another tax. And not being able to “pay to play” just another negative freedom.
