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Financing Services Mandated by the Federal Government

Many services are funded directly from local money, others are a combination of local and state money, and still others have fundi...

Funding for Colleges and Universities

State funding for colleges and universities has plummeted. For some, they receive less than 10 percent of their budgets. This has ...

Comparing New Jersey and Mississippi

New Jersey and Washington, D.C. tied for the richest states in the country in 2014. Mississippi ranked 51, the very poorest. This ...

Federal and State Government Roles

This 20 page paper gives an overview of how government branches influence public policy, and how outside groups influence local ad...

BP and the Gulf of Mexico

at which time the oil had been spilling for 50 days. He said that the federal government had taken aggressive actions but admitted...

State Owned Enterprises (SOE's) and their Role in International Business

will be regulating themselves. It may also be argued that the existing systems for analysing and assessing the competitive environ...

Individual Rights v. States Rights

This research paper investigates literature that examines the inherent tension between the rights of individuals and states rights...

Michigan Educational Assessment Program

The Michigan Educational Assessment Program is the assessment program for several subject areas in certain grade levels. This is t...

The Election Division of the Secretary of State

In a paper of four pages, the author considers the nature of the Elections Division of the Secretary of State of the State of Main...

Questions in Social Organization

of change relates to many factors, one of which is the changes which occurred over time in agriculture. Additional exampl...

Laws and Regulations in Insurance Practice in Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania

maintains two broad categories, Property/Casualty and Life/Health. Agents must be licensed in both to be able to sell policies in...

Baltimore’s Child Protective Services & Chessie

the promise by officials that Chessie would give workers ready access to thousands of case files on a statewide basis had yet to m...

An Evaluation of the Steady-State Theory

the earth and so quasars are objects that come form the past, and this suggest that a few billion years earlier, the universe was ...

The Problems of Landlocked States

Hodder & Lloyd (1998), Africa has the majority of land-locked states. Not all continents have to deal with the problem of having a...

Nurse Staffing Ratios

system," since the institution of mandated nursing ratios, and also that data shows California hospitals have not only been able t...

California's Emergency Services and its Relationship with the Federal Government

and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the South Pacific Division of the US Army Corps of E...

Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act and Physician Assisted Suicide

that declared physician-assisted suicide not to be an individuals constitutional right (Zanskas and Coduti 27). It was also in th...

The Welfare States in the UK

crime rates were rising and inflation was rife (Slack, 1990). The main aims were to reduce the extreme levels of poverty, but many...

Zero Tolerance Policies - Do They Work?

in the Gun-Free School Act (McAndrews, 2001; McCune, 2000). McAndrews (2001) reported that policies were passed by state legislat...

Medicaid Laws of New York State

In nine pages the Family Health Plus and Health Care Reform Act of 2000 are among the topics discussed in a consideration of New Y...

West Virginia and Education

In three pages the perspective of a resident from West Virginia is used in an examination of the perceived reaction to 'Measuring ...

NJ's Human Resources and Labor Market

In five pages this paper discusses the New Jersey state's available human resources and statistics pertaining to its labor market....

Policy Formation: Great Britain, France and Nigeria

been the case, of course, but at least in recent history equality and political representation have been considered important topi...

A Hypothetical Research Study/Chessie System

agreed upon strategy," in which the CPS employees works cooperatively with parents to reduce risk, moving families toward specific...

Salient Factors Of Modern Nation-State Formation

According to David Gompert, author of Helping a Palestinian State Succeed: Key Findings, Palestine can well establish itself as an...

Funding Special Education Under the Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004

P?rez, Socias, Shkolnik and Esra (2004) researched the question, "How does special education spending vary across states classifie...

Zip Code 11572 and Abuse of Alcohol and Drugs

alcohol prior to being 20 years of age and most of these individuals state (47 percent) state that they began substance abuse with...

Policies of Maryland Schools and Dangerous Weapons

"dangerous weapon". The legal definition of "dangerous weapon" is pretty much consistent across states. In Maryland, the t...

WV and NY Waste Management

In ten pages this paper discusses waste management controversies in West Virginia and New York along with possible solutions and e...