By Rachel Yoshida
 It is being said that one of the biggest shames in our country today is the deplorable condition that many of our elderly generation is being forced to live in. We are one of the richest countries in the world, yet so many of our grandmothers and grandfathers are forced to live on practically nothing each month. Choosing between paying their electric bill or food is real. Choosing between buying their necessary medicines and food is real. What are we doing to change this shameful situation?
The Social Security benefits that the majority of the elderly receive come no where near what it takes for a person to survive over the span of a month in this country. For some elderly who had some money saved for their retirement, it might be a little easier than for those who simply got too old and disabled to work and had nothing at all. A lot of these elderly folks either have no family to help care for them as was done in past times or their family simply abandons them to fend for themselves. How |
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By Rachel Yoshida
 Every good parent wants their children to get the best education that they can possibly give them, but in so many cases low income parents have a terrible time achieving that goal. When it takes every dollar that you can earn just to get your children raised to the age of eighteen, the prospect of coming up with thousands and thousands of additional money just to put one child through college can be impossible, let alone several children.
Of course, there have always been scholarships for kids who are labeled as gifted and this sometimes meant the difference between being able to go to college or not. The sad reality is that the majority of kids who manage to graduate high school do not fall into the gifted category, but that does not in mean that it is less important for those to be able to go to college. Sometimes these kids will not do as well in some academic areas such as mathematics or science, but can have wonderful writing or computer skills. When provided with the opportunity to excel in an academic |
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