June 2012 « Eyes Wide Open

Supreme Court Upholds Affordable Care Act

In a historic decision, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the Affordable Care Act (ACA), President Obama’s health care law. Although the ACA was passed two years ago, 26 states questioned whether the individual mandate requiring citizens to obtain health insurance trespassed on constitutional rights.

In today’s ruling, the court said that Congress acted [...]

Kids Today: Not to Blame for Joblessness

Youth have long been associated with laziness. Does “Get a job, hippie,” sound familiar? According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), however, kids today aren’t totally to blame for their joblessness.

A recent ILO report on youth employment states that, because of the economic crisis, the global youth unemployment rate has skyrocketed since 2007, [...]

America Ranks Second in Child Poverty

A new report from UNICEF has found that thirty million children live in poverty in thirty-five of the richest countries in the world. Of these countries, the U.S. ranks second behind Romania in relative child poverty – far behind other developed countries like Canada and the U.K.

The director of the National Poverty Center [...]

A Merger for Human Rights

The creator of Human Rights Watch, Robert Bernstein, and the creator of Movements.org, Jared Cohen, have combined forces to produce Advancing Human Rights, an organization to support online activists. Advancing Human Rights will provide connections, technical advice and support to activists abroad exclusively in authoritarian countries. The organization intends to eventually publish their work [...]

Tagging Students in Texas

Northside Independent School District in Texas plans to use Radio Frequency Identification System (RFIS) tags implanted in their students’ identification cards to track student locations next year. The goal of this program, according to district officials, is to increase student safety by allowing officials to monitor student locations and increase the accuracy of student [...]

Supreme Court Upholds Affordable Care Act

Kids Today: Not to Blame for Joblessness

America Ranks Second in Child Poverty

A Merger for Human Rights

Tagging Students in Texas

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