A Fight for Health and Education: The Real Brazil Protests
On Monday Brazilians took to the streets for another night of protests against government...
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Tag: health
Can We Tax Our Way to Health?
According to the CDC, about one-third of American adults are obese, and obesity-related diseases are becoming a leading cause of death in the United States. Lack of exercise, increased portion sizes and a variety of other...
Read MoreFluoride Is Too Toxic of an Issue for Austin City Council
The quality and purity of the drinking water supply has a dramatic influence on the public’s health. What if a sub-population is known to be negatively affected by something artificially added to the water...
Read MoreThe Government Is Making Us Fat
America is sick. And it’s not just the economy, or the perpetual state of war … it’s our health. The United States is the most obese country in the world, and the U.S. government is causing the problem....
Read MoreCleaning Our Hands of Dirty Pipelines
This article was co-written by Marcus Denton, a second year master's candidate at the LBJ School for Public Affairs, studying social and economic policy. President Obama generates controversy with nearly every one of...
Read MoreReducing the Deficit with Drugs
Our national debt is $14.2 trillion, which is more than our gross domestic product. Currently we borrow 43 cents of every dollar that we spend. Both Republicans and Democrats are concerned about our growing debt, yet both...
Read MorePharma Monies and Disease Mongering
Are you someone whose child is struggling to perform everyday tasks due to lack of motivation, low impulse and just plain laziness? Have you ever wondered why? What if there was a drug for laziness or low impulse? I am...
Read MoreCity Council Is Prescribing Medicine? Austin Experts Testify to the Dangers of the Forced Medication of Artificial Water Fluoridation
Fluoride History: Sixty years ago the U.S. Center for Disease Control proposed that fluoride be added to drinking water to prevent cavities. In December 2009, the Austin Environmental Board recommended that city council...
Read MoreSimple Solutions > More Money
The world is full of endemic, intractable problems that we as a rich developed nation are asked to help solve: poverty, hunger, health problems, inequality, and more. Our efforts to address these problems through aid have had...
Read MoreHealth’s Deadline: 2015
At the turn of the millennium, world leaders decided the new era should see the end of extreme poverty and other basic development problems. In order to facilitate a worldwide focus on this broad aim, they crafted the Millennium...
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