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Thien M. California

Capital Punishment: Justice or Plain-out Murder?

Capital punishment is just an excuse we make so that we can take revenge. Killing is a huge step backwards for mankind. Therefore, the death penalt...

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Jessica P. California

Leftover Children, The Forgotten Silents

There are over 400 thousand children in the foster care system. Despite the dramatic amount this number continues to increase every year.

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Kathy D. California

Medical Issues

Patients are in need of comfort and affection. Hospitals, doctors, and nurses are not providing this for them. Patients need to be treated both phy...

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Francisco M. California

Free Education For Low Income Students

Many brilliant high school students who are accepted in various colleges and universities face the struggle of not being able to afford the overpri...

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Mauro H California

Immigration Reform

The benefits of Immigration programs like DACA and DAPA are life changing.

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Marisol J. California

Education For Police Officers

Police officers need to go through more than just the police academy. Having more education will decrease the amount of shootings that cause innoce...

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Boris I. California

How can there be hundreds of rich politicians but thousands of homeless people?

Homelessness is a very pivotal issue in this country and deserves to be addressed with scrupulous attention. There are around 319 million Americans...

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Christina L. California

LGBT Exclusion in Anti-Discrimination Laws

More than half of the states in the United States exclude the LGBT community in their anti-discrimination laws. This needs to change.

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Thao P. California

Food Waste in the U.S.

America needs to keep their food waste nominal and feed the 1 in 6 mouths who suffer from hunger daily.

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Natalie R. California

Arts Funding

There should be more federal funding toward the arts, especially for low income and minority communities. Arts integration has the power to encoura...

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Luis V. California

No Taxation w/o Representation

Higher taxes in order to create more welfare programs is unfair for the rich and poor.

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Bereket F. California

Be the One to Bring Change

In an America where Black Men are slain in the streets by law enforcement, I ask the next president to take the initiative to change this pattern.

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Gabriel R. California

The Cost of College

In today's world there are many people who are not able to pursue a higher education due to the expensive cost of college.

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Guillermo M. California

Immigration Benefits the U.S.

Many U.S. citizens and politicians believe that immigration is nothing but a nuisance because immigrants take our jobs, and they create social diso...

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Jazmin S. California

Military Expenses Reduction

The United States' budget needs to be reevaluated.

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Akatzin T. California

The Youth of America are Not Voting

We must educate the youth, ages 18-21 on the importance of voting because as a U.S. citizens, we have an obligation to vote.

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Caesar R. California

Immigration

My proposition as to why immigrants should receive legal documents.

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Lesly A. California

School Pipeline to Prison

The school to prison pipeline punishes or incarcerates the kids, instead of helping them. This tends to focus on minorities such as Blacks and Lati...

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Bao L. California

School Hours

Schools should switch their starting hour from an early start like 7:00 A.M. to a later start like 10:00 A.M., so that students can have more sleep...

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Guadalupe R. California

Time to Say Goodbye to Sexism

Sexism is an ongoing problem that tends to appear as not such a huge issue, even though it is. We should work to change how women are perceived and...

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Gerardo C. California

Police should have more training

According to CNN, states require more training time to become a barber than a police officer. This may be the reason there is an increase in polic...

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Quynh T. California

Importance of Arts Education

Budget cuts are forcing schools to make tough decisions about where to use financial resources. One of them is cutting art programs from schools. B...

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Catherine P. California

A Call For Mental Health Reform

The United States needs to implement more rehabilitation services for inmates and individuals in the criminal justice system.

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Maricruz G. California

Higher Wages for Teachers

Education is a key to success, and teachers make this possible, but a step towards improving the overall education in our nation is by having highe...

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Tiffany D. California

Not Your Body? Not Your Business.

If a woman chooses to get an abortion, it is none of your business. You should have no opinion on what a woman chooses to do with her body. But if ...

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Franklin H. California

A Case for Open Migration

Frustrated that America's working class can't seem to raise their wages despite having an all-time high employment rate? Angry that the Baby Boome...

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Alejandra C California

Adoption is Always an Option

I am pro-life. For many, that is hard to understand, even more to respect, since today many teenagers my age,17, support the practice of abortion. ...

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Phuong N. California

Liberal Arts Education

The liberal arts are more than just the myth of guaranteed unemployment, and it's time that the US education system understood that.

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Alejandra P. California

Unequal Pay Between Genders

For years, women have fought for their rights, but even today unequal pay still exists. For every dollar a man makes, a woman makes 80 cents. Gende...

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Aisha W. California

Stop Unequal Education

Educational disparity in the U.S is at an all-time high. The gap is growing at disturbing rates now more than ever. Is the system already set to gi...

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Monique O California

Having A Voice for Those Who Are Silenced

Today many kids are being abused . Kids are getting taken advantage of and silenced by fear.

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Leilani T. California

GM No

Genetically modified organisms are a danger to our health and agrarian economy. The U.S needs to follow in the steps of other countries who have ba...

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Anthony D. California

Police Brutality

I am writing this letter to inform you of the social injustices the people are facing daily through the fear of police brutality.

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Cynthia T. California

Education Rights for Women Internationally

In many countries women are not granted the right to an education due to poverty. In many cases women are viewed as housewives. They marry at a yo...

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Audrey H. California

Racism Today

According to a CNN poll, 49% of Americans still view racism as a gargantuan problem. It has been 50 years since the Civil Rights Act was passed, so...

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Asha H. California

Black Lives Matter TOO

In this letter, I will be discussing the injustices against young Black men that are being killed on a daily basis.

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Esperanza J. California

How inequality is still going on today

I talk about how inequality has come back from the past, and how it is a situation that needs to be dealt with as soon as possible so that we all w...

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Alan D. California

Reducing College Tuition

The cost of a college tuition is at an extreme high as of today. It is so high that low-income, first generation students do not even want to attem...

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Christian Sanchez California

Athletes in America with Disabilities

American athletes with disabilities are not given the same opportunities as the typical athlete gets.

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Elizabeth N. California

Xenophobia Needs to End

Political agendas are causing the American population to, once again, seek out those who need help and wrongly blame them for social issues our nat...

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Daniel F. California

AP Tests Are More Important Than The SAT/ACT.

I believe that AP tests should be given more emphasis for students' academic abilities, than the SAT or ACT tests.

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David L. California

Syria is important, too!!!

If you type the keyword "Syria" in the search box for this website, you won't find anything. This may be because people aren't aware of what's goi...

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Katherine D. California

Police Officers Need a College Degree

Police officers are not required to have a college degree. In the U.S. we have too much police violence and racism. This may be caused by their lac...

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Guadalupe P. California

Why we need to reform Sex Ed

Our country needs to properly teach young adults how to make healthy choices.

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Jenny Nguyen California

Gun Control Is Too Lax

Firearms have been too frequent as a cause of death. Those that fall victim under the crimes committed by those in possession of firearms are only ...

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Felicia J. California

Charter School Backlash

The once flourishing charter school movement is now being derailed.

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Angel R. California

Stop Police Brutality

We have developed a fear of police officers with their way of protecting us, which seems to be to shoot first and ask questions later.

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Andrea V. California

Keep Calm and Reform Law

Requirements for becoming a police officer include the minimum of a high school diploma or a GED. With recent police brutality cases and the Black ...

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Letters to the Next President 2.0 engaged and connected young people, aged 13-18, as they researched, wrote, and made media to voice their opinions on issues that mattered to them in the 2016 Presidential Election.

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