The United States’ dependence on foreign oil poses significant challenges to our long-term energy supply. With domestic energy demand steadily rising at a 3 per cent annual rate and national population expected to grow to 400,000,000 by 2050, the US must develop a long term energy solution to substitute fossil fuel based energy sources…
A lack of available affordable housing in the new 13th Congressional District is driving longtime residents out of Harlem, Washington Heights, and the Bronx. Preliminary Census data reveals that the Washington Heights population has decreased by 10 percent. A considerable amount of families in this District are spending more-and-more of their income on rent…
In recent history America has advanced in providing women with better opportunities. Today women account for 50 per cent of our work force and nearly 60 per cent of America’s college graduates. Despite these accomplishments, gender-based discrimination continues to exist in the workplace. For example, only 2.6 percent of women holding CEO positions in Fortune 500 companies, while women generally earn 23 percent less than their male counterparts and pay higher health-care insurance rates—in some States paying more than 31 percent in premiums—for the same insurance policy offered to men of similar demographics…
Undocumented youth do not receive certain tertiary education benefits in the United States. As a consequence many of these youth are held back from receiving formal education opportunities beyond a high school degree. Further, the current policy in place restricts the social mobility of many of these youth, limiting their professional development and trapping them in a cycle of poverty, while not integrating them into the formal economy and subjecting them to deportation from the Unites States…