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Establishing a Government Run Safe Injection Facility in the City of Philadelphia
(2022-05)The City of Philadelphia is currently facing an opioid epidemic of unprecedented proportions, with 1,214 drug related overdoses in 2020 alone. The problem has been so detrimental that in 2019, the city had the highest rate ... -
Drug Use and Possession in the United States: A Twenty-First Century Proposal for Federal Decriminalization Efforts
(2022-05)For decades, the United States has waged a moral crusade against illicit drugs and people who use such drugs, responding with criminal penalties. This punitive response to illicit substance use has increasingly been ... -
A Proposal to Establish a National High-Speed Rail Network in the United States
(2022-05)High-speed rail is well positioned to offer a solution to shrinking transportation capacity and growing environmental threats in the United States. While many competing nations have taken steps to build their own robust ... -
Addressing Occupational Staffing Shortages in the Veterans Health Administration
(2022-05)The Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the component agency of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) responsible for administering health care benefits to veterans and eligible beneficiaries, is facing chronic workforce ... -
Closing the Last Loophole
(2022-05)The proliferation of illegitimate capital being spent in the United States remains an economic and national security concern. The American economic system is becoming an innocuous haven for illegitimate capital as 70.6% ... -
Policy Proposal to Reduce Water Pollution in China
(2022-05)China's economy has grown rapidly over the past decade, but the country's extensive economic development model caused China to neglect environmental protection. China's water quality has been deteriorating in recent years ... -
Freedom of Navigation in the Arctic: Options for Deterring Russia's Excessive Maritime Claims
(2022-05)As climate change opens up new lanes of international commerce from melting sea ice in the Arctic, the region has growing importance to American strategy. The newly viable Northern Sea Route (NSR) through the Arctic Ocean ... -
A Proposal for the Revision of the Leahy Laws to Align Human Rights and Security Cooperation Policies with National Strategy
(2022-05)The United States has long paired human rights and security cooperation policies to meet national strategic objectives. The 2021 Interim National Security Strategy called for an increase in security partnerships with ... -
A Proposal to Stabilize Puerto Rico's Debt Through Medicaid Equity
(2022-05)In January 2022, a federal judge ruled that a new debt restructuring framework for Puerto Rico would be in effect to partially relieve the island of its debt obligations to creditors. Despite the judge’s ruling, Puerto ... -
Addressing Marijuana Commercialization Amid State-Level Legalization Efforts
(2022-05)Several states have acted to defy federal law and legalize the commercialization of marijuana. The resulting conflict between state and federal law represents a constitutional and public health crisis which this paper ... -
Implementing Overtime Regulations in a Nonprofit Setting
(2016-12)New overtime regulations go into effect in December 2016. Implementing these new regulations will take intention and effort. U.S. PIRG has expressed particular concern about this implementation process and the impact the ... -
Addressing Federal Student Loan Debt for Students Who Do Not Complete - Implications of a Broad Approach to Discharge Federal Student Loans
(2021-12)Student loan debt continues to be a problem in the United States, especially as more students are taking out loans to attend higher education institutions. One of the most vulnerable groups that suffer from student loan ... -
Policy Proposal on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from U.S. Buildings
(2021-12)Climate change, caused by greenhouse gas emissions, is having profoundly negative impacts on the environment. A major source of U.S. climate-change-causing emissions are residential and commercial buildings. These structures ... -
A Proposal to Reduce Air Pollution in China by Subsidizing the Energy Industry
(2021-12)With the rapid growth of China's economy, the extensive economic development model has caused massive pollution to China's air and environment. If we do not change the current economic development model and adjust the ... -
Public Policy Proposal to Reduce Air Pollution in China
(2021-12)Chinese Air quality trails the Air Quality standards by WHO exposing over 81% of the Chinese population to related threats. In 2014, China was ranked the second-worst on air quality, globally, with a score of 18.81, and ... -
A Proposal to Cease Chinese Expansion in the South China Sea and Encroachment into the Sovereign Waters of Regional U.S. Allies
(2021-12)Despite sanctions, international legal decisions, U.N. resolutions, and threats of direct action by various regional powers in the South China Sea, China continues its policy of encroaching on the sovereign waters of U.S. ... -
Expanding Broadband Access and Adoption in Rural and Unserved Communities
(2021-12)Access to high-speed broadband is a necessity, with research showing that a lack of access can negatively impact economic, educational, and health outcomes for the unserved. While federal subsidies for broadband infrastructure ... -
The Path Towards Redevelopment of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium Site: An Analysis of Lease Extension
(2021-12)The Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Memorial Stadium, once home to many sports teams including the Washington Football Team, has sat empty since the D.C. United soccer team left the stadium in 2017 for their new home stadium at ... -
A Proposal for Refinancing the Social Security Retirement Insurance Program to Ensure Longevity
(2021-12)Per the SSA’s estimates, the population of the United States will shift gradually to have more senior citizens with higher mortality rates than working-age citizens. As a result, the current “pay-as-you-go” structure of ... -
Linking Maryland - An Analysis of a Broadband Grant Program
(2021-12)A decade before Covid 19, educators first wrote about the homework gap, a phenomenon where students have reduced school achievement due to a lack of reliable broadband access at home. The pandemic has only served to emphasize ...
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