Dina Rosin (CMC ’20) Administered by the United States Department of Education, a Pell Grant is a subsidy given to students to help pay for college, an expense that is rapidly rising at institutions across the nation. The Pell Grant is awarded to students with demonstrated financial need, and the amount given to students is…
Isaac Cui PO ‘20 Introduction On January 25, 2017, Donald Trump issued two sweeping executive orders which removed many of the previous administration’s policies regarding immigration enforcement in favor of a stringent, restrictionist approach. More specifically, one[1] punishes so-called sanctuary policies for causing “immeasurable harm to the American people and to the very fabric of…
Lindsey Mattila (CMC ’17) Non-compete agreements, or the lack thereof, have played an instrumental role in the quick growth and innovation of Silicon Valley. Non-compete agreements, which are generally built into employment contracts, require employees to wait a year, or some other designated amount of time, before joining a competitor. In theory, these agreements should…
James Dail CM ’20 – The United States is in the midst of its worst-ever drug crisis. Every day 91 Americans die from opioid overdose.1 To make matters worse, the crisis is not affecting all facets of American society. Poor and working class Americans bear the brunt of the carnage.2 Unless viable solutions are devised,…
Isabel Simon (PO ’18) The two-party system has been a hallmark of the US government since its inception. But it has not always been Republican vs. Democrat; at one time the Whig Party dueled it out with the Democratic Party, and before that, it was some variation of the Republican-Democratic Party against the Federalist Party.…
Lindsey Mattila (CMC ’17) Many Americans think that the federal government is too out of touch with the general public. These Americans often think this is because the government is centralized in one of the most, if not the most, affluent area in the country. Electing outsider politicians, such as President Trump, may be a…
Dina Rosin (CMC ’20) On May 28, 2007, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) was passed as an Act of Congress to prohibit the use of genetic information in cases of healthcare and employment. This means that healthcare providers cannot withhold insurance on the basis of genetic predispositions to certain diseases or conditions. Furthermore, this…
