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Barbara Bovjerg's 2001 Testimony on Social Security Reform

In nine pages this paper examines this GAO employee's 2001 testimony to Congress on the future of the U.S. Social Security system ...

Jerome Bruner's Life and Achievements

has veered off track from the cognitive revolution of his time. Humans, according to Bruner (1992), are storytellers and as such ...

An Argument Against Reforming Social Security at the Present Time

Roosevelt himself - promoted the plan as one in which individuals would pay into the system over the course of their working lives...

Educational Funding Adequacy Determination

Commission might consider using this approach to defined sound basic education. The authors report there have been three approach...

Issues of Campaign Finance and Reform

the basis for the introduction of everything from print advertising to television advertising, that promote the candidates exposur...

Welfare Reform, Vocational and Adult Education

which tend to create adult learners who can be considered as "exploitable surplus laborers" rather than "empowered political actor...

Article Analysis: Two Human Resources Issues

that the measured used by HRM departments will often have further reaching impacts that initially perceived or even desired. Where...

Positive Perspective on Reforming Social Security

history). Prior to Social Security, it was up to the states to provide security for the elderly, which they usually did in the fo...

Poverty Articles by Paul Collier and David Dollar and David Slater and Morag Bell Reviewed

if we look at where the aid is going is currently giving the greatest poverty relief to the South East Asian area and the least to...

Reform, Liability, and Tort Law

are classified as torts by requiring them to serve prison terms, the tort system penalizes them by requiring them to provide monet...

Families in Poverty and Welfare Reform

study also integrates data that relates to educational gains and other measures that can reduce the use of welfare, reduce the pov...

Estelle James' 2005 Report on Social Security

contrast the U.S. system with other social security systems abroad, perhaps in an attempt to gain new insights in respect to refor...

Australia's System of Post Compulsory Education

and Further Education System (TAFE) which is the major provider" (National Report on the development of education in Australia, 19...

Case Study on Prison Reform

care is a basic survival need. Without adequate health care, they could and sometimes do die. There is empirical evidence that the...

Article Review on North Korea's Economic Reforms

between free and state market prices, the rising of attractiveness for farmers instead of selling on the markets, a benefit to the...

2 Texts on Issues Pertaining to the American Educational System

topic should realize that neither socialism or communism are political system, they are, rather, economic systems. Counts argues t...

A Letter to the Editor Regarding Money and Politics

closer than we think. We also have to be sure to close all the loopholes. While "hard money" (contributions made directly to pol...

Austin H. MacCormack and Thomast Mott Osborne

hesitate to say what he believed and never compromised" (Thomas Mott Osbornes Within Prison Walls). In 1913, Osborne "was appoi...

2 Articles on Reading Reviewed

difficulty accepting and using rules of spelling, one of the problems that Liben and Liben (2004) describe as having occurred at t...

Update on LBJ's 'War on Poverty'

economy (Grier and Jonsson, 2004). These days, some of the programs continue - one of them being Medicare (Grier and Jonsso...

Johannes Kepler and His Contribution to Astrology

advantage of an education and as such was able to afford himself a level of intellectual snobbery, but this is more that snobbery,...

NYC Education Reform

$77 million budget cut (Klein). At the same time, the administration was able to cut some money elsewhere by streamlining adminis...

Policy Implications of the Film Cool Hand Luke

for working farms and it provided Southern states with a rationale for not rebuilding prisons after the war. In some cases, many s...

1547 England Protestantism

main issue with regard to English history of this period is the dichotomy between Catholic and Protestant, and the extent to which...

Economic Relations and the Economy of Argentina

Were the central bank of, say Ecuador, to fix the exchange rate of the Ecuador currency directly to the value of the US dollar, pr...

Public Policy and Business Interests

Public policy is made primarily by elected officials who propose laws. In the White House for example, the president and cabinet m...

Brazil's Policies Regarding Land Reform

Cuba, have failed, is beyond logic or reason. Of course, the Brazilian government does not call it communism but all one has to do...

Cultural and Performance Studies and Communication

There are some things in this life that just are, that result from the intersection of natural law, cultural context, interpersona...

Great Depression and the WPA, FHA and AAA New Deal Agencies of President Franklin D. Roosevelt

to compare the situation in agriculture and in industry today with what it was fifteen months ago. At the same time we have recog...

Campaigns and Elections in the United States

are likely to look askance at such a person" (Allen, 1998, p. 22). Americans, while we realize that campaigns take money, like t...