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Save The Rich, Connor Harris Apr 2021

Save The Rich, Connor Harris

English Department: Research for Change - Wicked Problems in Our World

The problem of medication pricing and lobbying in the healthcare industry has caused millions of people within the United States to not be able to afford medications essential to their lives. Pharmaceutical companies are taking advantage of the need people have for certain drugs by setting the sale price far higher than it costs to produce. My suggested solution is to make lobbying illegal in the United States so that pharmaceutical companies would not have control over government officials who pass laws to help or hurt the issue of medication pricing. Illegalizing government lobbying will take away the incentive politicians …


Girls' Day At The State House (2019), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jun 2019

Girls' Day At The State House (2019), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Coalition To End Domestic Violence - Legislative Review (2019), Maine Coalition To End Domestic Violence Staff Jun 2019

Maine Coalition To End Domestic Violence - Legislative Review (2019), Maine Coalition To End Domestic Violence Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


State Era Introduced In Maine (Feminist Newswire, Jan 25, 2019), Feminist Newswire Staff Jan 2019

State Era Introduced In Maine (Feminist Newswire, Jan 25, 2019), Feminist Newswire Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Building-A Prosperous Maine - A Roadmap To Economic Security For Women And Their Families (2018), Maine Women's Policy Center Staff Jun 2018

Building-A Prosperous Maine - A Roadmap To Economic Security For Women And Their Families (2018), Maine Women's Policy Center Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Mecasa Legislative Review - 128th Legislature - First Regular Session (2017), Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault Staff Jun 2017

Mecasa Legislative Review - 128th Legislature - First Regular Session (2017), Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Women's Giving Tree Quarterly Review Vol. 2, No. 1 (June 2017), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jun 2017

Maine Women's Giving Tree Quarterly Review Vol. 2, No. 1 (June 2017), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Women's Giving Tree Quarterly Review Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Dec 2016

Maine Women's Giving Tree Quarterly Review Vol. 1 No. 1 (2016), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Garvin, David Berry, 1943-2014 (Mss 547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Nov 2015

Garvin, David Berry, 1943-2014 (Mss 547), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 547. Limited correspondence, calendars, photos, news clippings, and reports that document the life of Warren County, Kentucky, businessman David Berry Garvin. Includes information about Beech Bench Park, Camping World, Sugar Maple Square and an unrealized land development project near Franklin, Kentucky. Includes several memorial books from Garvin’s funeral

as well as a large number of sympathy cards.


Maine Coalition To End Dometic Violence - Annual Report 2015, Maine Coalition To End Domestic Violence Staff Jun 2015

Maine Coalition To End Dometic Violence - Annual Report 2015, Maine Coalition To End Domestic Violence Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Building A Prosperous Maine - A Roadmap To Economic Security For Women And Their Families (2014), Maine Women's Policy Center Staff Aug 2014

Building A Prosperous Maine - A Roadmap To Economic Security For Women And Their Families (2014), Maine Women's Policy Center Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Lobbying, Greenwash And Deliberate Confusion: How Vested Interests Undermine Climate Change, Sharon Beder Jan 2014

Lobbying, Greenwash And Deliberate Confusion: How Vested Interests Undermine Climate Change, Sharon Beder

Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)

Politicians in many nations have not been responsive to community concerns about global warming because of a highly successful corporate campaign of misinformation and persuasion. Corporations that would be affected by measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions set out to confuse and deceive the public and policy-makers on the issue. They use corporate front groups, public relations firms and conservative think tanks to cast doubt on predictions of global warming and its impacts, to imply that governments do not know enough to act, to argue that the cost of reducing greenhouse gases is prohibitively expensive and to promote doubtful solutions …


Protecting Pregnant Women And Newborns (Press Release, 2013), Aclu Of Maine Staff Dec 2013

Protecting Pregnant Women And Newborns (Press Release, 2013), Aclu Of Maine Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Protecting Pregnant Women And Newborns (Press Release, 2013), Aclu Of Maine Staff Dec 2013

Protecting Pregnant Women And Newborns (Press Release, 2013), Aclu Of Maine Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Equal Pay Day 2011 - 4 Recommendations For Action (Coalition For Maine Women), Coalition For Maine Women Staff Jun 2011

Equal Pay Day 2011 - 4 Recommendations For Action (Coalition For Maine Women), Coalition For Maine Women Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Planned Parenthood Of Northern New England Opposes Cuts To Women's Health Services (Press Release, 2010), Planned Parenthood Staff Jan 2010

Planned Parenthood Of Northern New England Opposes Cuts To Women's Health Services (Press Release, 2010), Planned Parenthood Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


The Maine Women's Advocate (2010 - Winter), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jan 2010

The Maine Women's Advocate (2010 - Winter), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Planned Parenthood Launches Good Chemistry Series (Press Release, 2009), Planned Parenthood Staff Apr 2009

Planned Parenthood Launches Good Chemistry Series (Press Release, 2009), Planned Parenthood Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Planned Parenthood Launches Good Chemistry Series (Press Release, 2009), Planned Parenthood Staff Apr 2009

Planned Parenthood Launches Good Chemistry Series (Press Release, 2009), Planned Parenthood Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


The Maine Women's Advocate (2009 - Winter), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jan 2009

The Maine Women's Advocate (2009 - Winter), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


The Maine Women's Advocate (2009 - Summer), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jan 2009

The Maine Women's Advocate (2009 - Summer), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


The Maine Women's Advocate (2008 - Summer), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jan 2008

The Maine Women's Advocate (2008 - Summer), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


The Maine Women's Advocate (2007 - Fall), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jan 2007

The Maine Women's Advocate (2007 - Fall), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


The Maine Women's Advocate (2007 - Winter), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jan 2007

The Maine Women's Advocate (2007 - Winter), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


The Maine Women's Advocate (2007 - Summer), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jan 2007

The Maine Women's Advocate (2007 - Summer), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Women's Insider (April 2006), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Apr 2006

Maine Women's Insider (April 2006), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


The Maine Women's Advocate (2006 - Fall), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jan 2006

The Maine Women's Advocate (2006 - Fall), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


The Maine Women's Advocate (2006 - Summer), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jan 2006

The Maine Women's Advocate (2006 - Summer), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


The Maine Women's Advocate (2006 - Winter), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jan 2006

The Maine Women's Advocate (2006 - Winter), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.


Maine Women's Advocate No. 39 (Summer 2005), Maine Women's Lobby Staff Jul 2005

Maine Women's Advocate No. 39 (Summer 2005), Maine Women's Lobby Staff

Maine Women's Publications - All

No abstract provided.