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Auto Accidents in Santa Monica California A Proposal for Addressing the Public Transportation Issue

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper relates the fact that there are problems in Santa Monica California relative to their transport...

Public Policy Issues as State and Local Levels

have stayed essentially the same for decades and that single mothers are most often poverty-stricken. Social Welfare programs, ...

Social Security, Health Care Reform, and Public Policy

success; yet each time they faced defeat. The evolution of these efforts and the reasons for their failure make for an intriguing...

The Year 2050 and The Greenhouse Effect

moment, the indications are far more likely for a bleak future. Ironically, it was roughly one year before the Antarctic ice shel...

Environment and Public Policy

States EPA 1997). During the past thirty-five years, there have been several amendments to the original Clean Air Act, including...

The Traveling T-Shirt and Public Policy

This 4 page essay reviews the book "The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy" by Rivoli and the effects of cotton on public ...

STEP CHILD CARE IN L.A. COUNTY: A PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS

the younger one under his/her wing. The articles premise, basically, is that leadership can be taught, so long as the pers...

NYC Schools and Vouchers

about systemic change" (Domanico, 1993). Their idea was school choice, not vouchers (Domanico, 1993). The difference is that paren...

UK Government Policies and Market Failure

If we look at the role of government and government failure we can look to the UK and the way public policy...

Health Policy and the Role of Public Health Nurses

These authors conducted a large study of 3,830 individuals consisting of 17.8 percent nurses, 21.8 percent physicians, 29.6 percen...

Greed in the Corporate Sector

to consider who has helped the most people, Michael Milken or Mother Teresa. Mother Teresa spent her life helping the poor, while ...

Decreasing Low Birth Weights and Decreasing Infant Mortality

the same time, researchers have also argued that in the year 2002, children in the United States are somewhat less likely to die d...

Public Policy and the Conspiracist

of conspiracist ideas resulted in the "political constituency that supports official investigations such as those of special prose...

Development of Social Work

p. 130). Figures from the early part of the century reveal that "50 to 66 percent of working families were poor and that a third ...

Budget as an Instrument of Public Policy

emerged out of this process have not produced an equitable distribution of benefits, particularly for societys neediest. All too o...

Society and Media

In five pages this paper examines social identity and how it is produced by the media with the public policy effects resulting fro...

Right to Die Issues of Public Policy

In eight pages this paper considers 'right to die' issues of public policy and includes group and elite theories as well as increm...

Mass Communication and Social Policies

This paper discusses a 2001 article by Mira Sotirovic entitled, Affective and Cognitive Processes as Mediators of Media Influences...

Liberty and Autonomy According to Immanuel Kant

past times are given (or as he put it more cautiously, "presupposed") in the present time. It is possible, according to Kant, tha...

Changes Resulting from the Vietnam War

"seemingly contradictory methods of troop reduction and applications of intense firepower to coerce the North Vietnamese to accept...

An Overview of the Health Care System in the United States

The estimated increase for 1999 is between 7 and 10 percent.4 Of the expenditures in 1997, 33 percent went towards hospital costs,...

Criminal Justice System in Canada and Rehabilitation

In a paper consisting of six pages Canada's rehabilitation programs are examined in terms of the lack of public policy and establi...

Public Policy, Economics, and the US Legal System

in American society but the debate continues to circle around issues relating to the laws that defines the penalties and processes...

California's Public Transportation Policy

of California, although not always giving the outward appearance of doing so, does take the transportation problem seriously and h...

Election of Congress Members and Public Policy

the greater good of society, they work to fund their next election. This is a topic that is not obscured and in fact the subject o...

UK Youth Needs and Services

In fifty five pages this paper assesses how UK social services are meeting the needs of youth in comparison to the extent of these...

Crisis Situations, Public Opinion, and Government Policy

In six pages this report considers crisis situations such as the Second World War, the conflicts in Korea and Vietnam, and the Gul...

Wal-Mart's Debt Financing and Capital Structure

billion (USD) U.S. program, which offered oustandings of more than $2 billion each year (Anonymous, 2002). During the earl...

Financial Institution's Needs Assessment

well as provide analysis for traditional earnings- and value-at-risk information (Gerson, 2005). In our scenario, senior ma...

Informational Overview of Benchmarking

applied to comparative analysis, which is the third step in the process (Obringer, 2005). Finally, a critical assessment as to wh...