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The Ideas for Change in America competition was created in response to Barack Obama's call
for increased citizen involvement in government. The final round of voting began on January
5 and is comprised of the top 3 rated ideas from each of the 30 issues in the first round of
the competition, which collectively received more than 250,000 votes.
The top 10 rated ideas from the final round will be presented to the Obama administration on
January 16th at an event at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, co-hosted by the Case
Foundation. At the event we will also announce the launch of a national advocacy campaign
behind each idea in collaboration with our nonprofit partners to turn each idea into actual policy.
For more information about the competition, click here »
Al Gore has made it his mission to get the U.S. electrical grid off of carbon-based fuel (coal, oil, etc.) in the next ten years. Make this the centerpiece of a national energy plan.
The problem: Many American students graduate from college and high school each year, and face a roadblock to their dreams: they can't drive, can't work legally, can't further their education, and can't pay taxes to contribute to the economy just because they were bro...
Health Care is a fundamental human right. No one should have sell their house to pay for their mother's cancer. No one should have to choose between food and medicine. Free basic health care for all! Why? 1) Its the most efficient approach 2) It works.&...
PROBLEM: Free Trade creates a global “race to the bottom” for wages, working conditions, environmental protection, investor protection, etc. It has cost millions of American jobs and threatens our economic survival. SOLUTION: Fair Trade ...
The currently utilized intellectual property software based election systems have been proven deficient by government study ( CA Secretary of State Top to Bottom Review etc)- Transparency in government should start with elections- We must implement uniform...
This one speaks for itself. Get out of Iraq as soon as possible. Have our soldiers home by Christmas and let the Iraqi's sort everything out.
The credit crunch currently crippling America's economy is not due to a lack of available funds. It is caused by dysfunctioning credit markets and by the banks having adopted an overly conservative credit policy in the wake of the subprime meltdown. After very ...
All people should be allowed equal rights when it comes to civil marriage no matter the sexual orientation or gender identity of the spouses. This is the ultimate civil rights battle of our time. We need to make sure our friends, brothers, sisters, mothers and father...
An 1886 Supreme Court clerk's headnotes misreading (Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad) applied the 14th Amendment to corporations, extending to them all the rights, but none of the responsibilities, of human persons. The result has been...
The Obama administration should use the teachings and words of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mohandas Ghandi, and Reverend James Lawson, to develop a nonviolent strategy that could be applied immediately in Iraq and other parts of the Middle East in order to ...
Despite Sen. Barack Obama's overwhelming win in the 2008 Presidential Election, gay rights suffered major setbacks this year, with marriage rights being rescinded in California, adoption by LGBT couples being banned in Arkansas, and constitutional amendments banning ...
Our planet, our media, our social interactions, our homes all suffer from the epidemic of inter-personal violence and warfare that plagues America. With the establishment of a Department of Peace and Non-Violence, with a respected Secretary of Peace in the Presi...
Forgive Student Loans! ^ The American middle and lower classes are crippled under the weight of educational debt; in these unusual times, as we bail out lenders and executives, we encourage the Obama administration to forgive student loans, provid...
***ALERT: Make sure your VOTE counts. Click on the number to the left with "Vote" under it – it will change to “Voted”. Registering on this site and posting a comment is not a vote!*** National Priority for the Economic Stimulu...
Require USDA to facilitate healthful plant-based school lunch options as a means of promoting public health, environmental quality, and animal rights.
The Obama Administration needs to lead our country in developing and implementing a National Strategy for Sustainability. With only 5% of the world's population, the US consumes 1/4 of the natural resources. Meanwhile humanity uses 30% more of the earth's bio-capac...
America needs high speed bullet trains that travel between major metropolitan cities. In Califonria we recently passed a proposition to connect SF and LA with a bullet train that can get a person from one city to the next in three-four hours. With that kind of commut...
Thousands of Americans and people from the around the world are asking the Obamas to lead by example on climate change, health policy, economic self-reliance, food security, and energy independence by replanting an organic food garden at the White House with the pro...
The inevitable economic stimulus package proposed by the new administration should be used to start solving our economic and climate crises simultaneously - putting Americans back to work with Green Jobs that rebuild our nation's infrastructure using clean technology...
It is far too dangerous to keep global nuclear disarmament on the back burner. Nuclear weapons pose the most immediate, overwhelming and devastating threat imaginable to our country and to civilization. The only way to assure that these weapons are n...
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calls on citizens across the country to get involved by answering the question: how will YOU commit to
bringing about change in your neighborhood, your community or your nation?
The winner will receive 2 tickets to the Presidential Inauguration and the Hawaii Inaugural Ball as well
as flight and hotel accommodations in Washington, DC.
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