US War Costs Reach $3.7 Trillion Iraq and Afghanistan Wars Have Cost Americans $3.7 Trillion, $12,000 Per Person A study conducted by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies found that over the past 10 years the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have cost United States taxpayers a total $2.3 to 2.7 trillion, with a [...]
People in disadvantaged neighborhoods have seen unhappy days from, despair, poverty, violence, crime, drugs, sub par schools, and everything else the slums of America has to endure. These neighborhoods won’t be getting better anytime soon, because the rich are moving into wealthy enclaves. They are taking their money and businesses to suburban areas. This leaves [...]
Researchers found a six-fold increase in the risk of developing Parkinson’s in individuals exposed in the workplace to trichloroethylene (TCE). Although many uses for TCE have been banned around the world, the chemical is still used as a degreasing agent. Parkinson’s can result in limb tremors, slowed movement and speech impairment, but the exact cause [...]
Research scientists at The University of Edinburgh have used newly discovered information about parasite survival to better understand sleeping sickness. Sleeping sickness is a parasitic disease that is transmitted by the tsetse fly. It is a dangerous disease that affects both humans and animals. A parasite can develop into two physical forms and a study [...]
Since Congress passed the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) in 2003, the National Prison Rape Elimination Commission (NPREC) has been conducting a study on the causes and consequences of prison rape. In June of 2009, the NPREC released its findings from the 6-year research program. The Justice Department has been slow to act and as [...]
According to a study acquired exclusively by “The Christian Monitor,” one in five United States Air Force women is a victim of sexual assault. The study was conducted by the United States military in order to determine the amount of sexual assault that occurs within its ranks. According to the study, nearly half of the [...]
A new study conducted by the Applied Research Center about migrant workers in the food industry provided interesting results. According to the study, people of color make a significant amount less compared to their white counterparts in all sectors of the food system such as production, processing, distribution, and service. Not only do they make [...]
An ambitious project to produce clean energy for the Netherlands and Belgium has degenerated into a controversial abuse of natural resources. BioShape, a clean energy company based in Neer, the Netherlands, is going through bankruptcy proceeding after spending $9.6 million dollars on a failed biofuel project in Tanzania. According to a WWF study published in [...]
Since sexual violence is one of the principal weapons of policing and punishing perceived sexual deviance and gender nonconformity on the outside, it may come as no surprise that it’s wielded to even greater effect in the highly controlled and violent environment of modern prisons. Studies indicate that as many as one in four female [...]
As tickets go on sale for the 2012 Olympics held in London, England in March 2011, few attendees will recognize and none will be warned about the potential dangers of the site. The site of the games was, for 150 years prior to being purchased by the Olympic Delivery Authority, a mostly unregulated toxic dumping [...]
