Nov 22, 2019 | Economic Policy
Policy A 2018 large scale survey of college students found that overall 36% of college students are food and housing insecure while 9% were homeless for at least one day in the past month. Eighteen percent of community college student s, and 14% of four year college...
Nov 19, 2019 | Environment
POLICY Wolves are native to Europe, Asia and North America and once were the most widely distributed land mammal on Earth. In the early 1990s, wolves were listed as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The Trump administration is now actively trying to...
Nov 19, 2019 | USRESIST Blog
After nearly two months of closed door hearings, the first set of public hearings in the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump took place this week. The President stands accused of withholding $413 million in military aid in exchange for investigating Joe Biden,...
Nov 18, 2019 | Economic Policy
Policy The concept of social class has been amorphous and remains so. Most economists suggest it is the middle 3 quintiles of the American population (or people at 21-80 percent of the population in household income). Others suggest it would be households at 2/3s of...
Nov 18, 2019 | Immigration
Policy Summary Due to the Trump Administration’s repeated crackdowns on immigration matters, immigration has been a very prominent and important topic in regards to the 2020 46th presidential election. Several of the leading Democratic candidates have rather similar...