Category: Consumer
Rehabilitating the Legal Profession
By NICK KLITZING – Despite its once revered position in society as an incubator of America’s leaders, the legal profession has become deeply unpopular.
Differentiating Between Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 Bankruptcy
The two most common types of bankruptcies are Chapter 7 and Chapter 13; here is a clear comparison between the two.
For-Profit Institutions: Filling an Educational Gap or Offering Debt Without a Diploma?
By WILLIAM R. LAWRENCE – While the concept of for-profit universities can be traced as far back as ancient Greece, the industry’s popularity has come under heightened scrutiny due to breakneck expansion during a time of significant economic downturn.
What Are Our Children Eating?
By JOSEPHINE BALZAC – If immediate action is not taken childhood obesity will continue to increase and this current generation of young people could “become the first in American history to live shorter lives than their parents.” The current American diet lacks nutritional value and consumers are constantly misled into purchasing these unhealthy foods due to heavy marketing and promoting. By targeting children through their advertising, the food industry shoves highly processed and unhealthy foods down our children’s throats and thus encourages a high fat, sugary, and unnatural diet
Vaccine Law: Friend or Adversary?
By MEREDITH BIGGS – Many children have suffered neurological problems from a DTP vaccine. In fact, DTP vaccinations are responsible for the majority of proven vaccine-related injuries, and the injuries are primarily neurological. Unfortunately, the current laws are tipped in favor of vaccine manufacturers. Congress established the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program which uses a table that lists the compensable symptoms for each vaccine. This creates an unusual dichotomy whereby victims with very specific symptoms that fit in the table have to do virtually nothing to get compensation; but victims with even slightly different symptoms have to prove virtually everything to get any compensation
Didn’t You See? Those Cancer Sticks Are Bad For You
By MEERA PATEL – In an effort to reduce the number of cigarette smokers, the FDA will require tobacco companies to print graphic and explicit warning labels on packs of cigarettes, starting in fall 2012. These labels will include images of a sewn-up corpse, a laryngectomy patient with a visible hole in his throat, and an infant surrounded by a cloud of smoke, to graphically depict what smoking can potentially do to a person’s health. Did that make you cringe a bit? Well, that’s the point
