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How Proud Is the Proud Whopper?

How Proud Is the Proud Whopper?  - Proceeds of that burger's sales were donated to an LGBT college scholarship fund. Pretty cool, right? Alas, the burger was available only at one ...

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgendered and Cruising to the Bahamas? Think Again.

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgendered and Cruising to the Bahamas? Think Again.  - Beginning last Friday, the four-day festival was intended to celebrate and strengthen support for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered ( LGBT ) ...

Here's the One Simple Reason Why We Need More Openly Bisexual Characters on Television

Here's the One Simple Reason Why We Need More Openly Bisexual Characters on Television  - Almost everyone thinks LGBT visibility in the media is on the rise. On the whole, they'd be right... but not so fast with those pats on the back. In reality ...

Why are LGBTs more likely to be depressed?

Why are LGBTs more likely to be depressed?  - The results will be used to promote the well-being of LGBT people through improving psychological interventions and informing LGBT -positive social ...

LGBT Center Head Claims Rape at Hands of 'Gay Cure' Counselor

LGBT Center Head Claims Rape at Hands of 'Gay Cure' Counselor  - A man who has grown into healthy self-acceptance and prominence in the LGBT community as the head of an LGBT center in Mississippi says that his ...

Gay Advertising Comes To China

Gay Advertising Comes To China  - Amid signs that some marketers are ready to target LGB people in China, lobby group Shanghai LGBT Professionals has organized China's apparent ...

On Celebrating Labor Day

On Celebrating Labor Day  - Woven throughout the history of America's working men and women is the history of LGBT labor. The common struggle of the LGBT community and ...

Equality campaign backs yes vote

Equality campaign backs yes vote  - The Yes LGBT group says independence will allow equality to be enshrined in a written constitution, secure the power to protect and improve equality ...

LGBT group says Yes vote would help achieve equality in Scotland

LGBT group says Yes vote would help achieve equality in Scotland  -  LGBT independence supporters believe a Yes vote in the Scottish referendum could help achieve greater equality. A Rainbow Paper has been ...

Financial Questions Remain For LGBT Couples More Than A Year After DOMA Decision

Financial Questions Remain For LGBT Couples More Than A Year After DOMA Decision  - Indeed, 83% of LGBT investors surveyed said they do not fully understand how federal and state laws apply, including 67% of those in legal same-sex ...

The US is now a 'Third-World' country

The US is now a 'Third-World' country  - Slightly more than one in every 25 American households with children is surviving on less than $2 per day of income from all sources. One quarter of that 4.3% (that’s 1% of all Americans with children) receive less than $1.25 per day. One third (that’s about 1.33% of all Americans) receive between $1.25 and $2. Another third of that 4.3% receive enough government benefits to be living on between $1.25 and $2 a day.

Exchange Rates Contagion in Latin America

Exchange Rates Contagion in Latin America  - A regular vine copula approach is implemented for testing for contagion among the exchange rates of the six largest Latin American countries .

On the Immense Good Fortune of Higher Education

On the Immense Good Fortune of Higher Education  - Six years ago, I wrote my first Think Tank column. This is the last. Here's what I've learned along the way. America is blessed by its colleges and ...

Education culture shift requires parents

Education culture shift requires parents  - There will be a growing disconnect between the types of jobs employers need to fill an the numbers of Americans who have the education and ...

Let's End Poverty: We Have the Money, Do We Have the Will?

Let's End Poverty : We Have the Money, Do We Have the Will?  - Although not for the man with the hand-lettered sign, nor for about 47 million other Americans who live beneath the official poverty line, as well as ...

The Bottom 1 Percent

The Bottom 1 Percent  - To answer it, Chandy and Smith needed to know more about that very bottom of America's wealth distribution—those living below the global poverty  ...

One-third in LatAm faces poverty risk

One-third in LatAm faces poverty risk  - Around 56 million people in Latin America escaped poverty between 2000 and 2012, according to a new United Nations Development Programme ...

There Can Be Dignity in the Face of Poverty

There Can Be Dignity in the Face of Poverty  - Having been born, raised and educated on this "the poorest county in America " according to the 1980 U. S. Census, I would venture to say that if the ...

Why Labor Day Still Matters: Unions and the Future of American Democracy

Why Labor Day Still Matters: Unions and the Future of American Democracy  - Over the last year, the subject of economic inequality has been in the news quite a bit with the release of Robert Reich's spectacular documentary ...

Straight America's Problem with the Gay Agenda

Straight America's Problem with the Gay Agenda  - Most of we “middle Americans ” (or as the media would characterize us; gun toting, knuckle dragging, mouth breathing, tea bagging, racist Troglodytes ...

One-third in LatAm faces poverty risk

One-third in LatAm faces poverty risk  - Around 56 million people in Latin America escaped poverty between 2000 and 2012, according to a new United Nations Development Programme ...

Latino Workers And The Future of Labor

Latino Workers And The Future of Labor  -  Latinos deserve their basic labor rights, civil rights, and human rights,” Sanchez said. “I hope that on Labor Day, people will reflect on how many of ...

African-Americans may be getting inferior breastfeeding advice

African - Americans may be getting inferior breastfeeding advice  - Mothers who give birth in areas with higher concentrations of African - Americans are less likely to get breastfeeding ...

Race and Police Shootings: Are Blacks Targeted More?

Race and Police Shootings: Are Blacks Targeted More?  - The evidence is clear that some police law-enforcement tactics — traffic stops, to cite one example — disproportionately target African - Americans .

Racial biases still evident

Racial biases still evident  - The racial divide evident in survey statistics continues in other topics concerning Brown's death. While most Black people surveyed feel race is a ...