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A Policy Analysis of the Adoption and Safe Families Act

time minors spent in "foster-care limbo" (Spake, 1999). When President Bill Clinton signed the law in 1997, he summarized the ASFA...

Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action in the Area of Higher Education

continue acting as though they are contributing to a more racially diversified academic community, when in reality they are really...

Europe, Seeking Asylum, and Economic Migration

been successful (there have been severe criticisms of the GATT treaties, the WTO and the IMF/ World Bank in the latter part of the...

American Corporate Sphere and Sexual Harassment

which base an employment benefit upon an exchange of sexual favors" (Mallery, 1997, p. 7). There are two distinct types of sexual...

Enlargement of EU and Impact on NATO Relationship of Common Foreign and Security Policy

policy of foreign and security policy. Many countries such as Ireland, Finland and Sweden have traditionally occupied a neutral st...

Prison Policy and Violence

1880s, Folsom Prison has spent decades as "a squalid, antiquated mess. But its problems have become acute in the past ten years, a...

Russian History's Inconsistencies and Dichotomies

Great," 2003). Peter the Great was somewhat obsessed with creating a Russia that was separate and apart from Asia as well. His St....

Economic Policies of U.S. Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush

September 11, 2001, and rushed headlong into full blown recession with the grounding of the US airline industry. Selected Economic...

Senior Citizens and Public Policy

forgetful. It can be a very serious problem for the elderly who are often on a smorgasbord of necessary pills to treat a variety o...

The Marshall Plan by Michael Hogan

United States."2 American leaders who were at the center of this "New Deal synthesis" envisioned an integrated economy for Western...

Bilingual Education Studies

In six pages this paper discusses bilingual education in a consideration of various research studies along with the impact of poli...

6 Decades of the United States' Latin American Foreign Policy

Although President George W. Bush has a good relationship with Mexicos President Vicente Fox, indeed even leaned on that relations...

Overview of School Governance in California

materials. The California School Boards Association adopted Professional Governance Standards in 2000 (CSBA, Professional, 2003)...

American Policy and Saudi Arabia

Wahhabi (Pfaff, 2001). The Wahhabi is the source of modern Islamic fundamentalism - in other words, the same ideals that Bin Lade...

UK's Doctrine of Adverse Possession and Whether or Not It is Justified

In effect it was assumed that where the scenario for adverse possession arouse the title owner had abandoned or dispossessed the l...

U.S. Foreign Policy and Religious Persecution

pertaining to religious persecution have never received as much attention in the US as other forms of discrimination (Wales 579). ...

Overview of the Issue of Religious Persecution

can occupy the same country (Robinson). For example, Bosnia (which has seen a great deal of religious persecution) is home to Roma...

Case Study of the Pricing Policy of Thistle Hotels

will be many different influences on the supply and demand relationship, such as substitutes and competing products. However, to b...

Overview of Economic Recession

established by Congress in 1913 and consists of seven members of the Board of Governors located in Washington, DC and also twelve ...

Framework and Focus of the EEOC

the same for similar work performed under similar conditions; 4. Title I and Title V of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)...

Early Childhood Education Politics and Policy

in making the transition from home to school. As is the case with many federal programs, however, Head Start has become bog...

Discrimination Law Interpretation and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

policy is effective. In an extensive review of empirical research conducted in 1995 on the effectiveness of EEO policies, in gen...

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Study Results

paper. Nevertheless, the implications is that the extremely negative evaluation given by Bovard (1994) is no longer completely a...

United Kingdom's Formation of Policy Process

This also had the added domino effect of spilling over into the employment sectors as more workers were needed to cope with the in...

United Kingdom Early Childhood Education Politics and Policy

the UK that exemplified the "best practices" that the government seeks in providing early childhood education for the people of th...

UK's ECE Politics and Policy

by the family after the family attacked a hospital patient. Batty (2002) provides a timeline of child protection legislatio...

Public Policy Views Contrasted

is that policy formulation should employ a "craft" perspective. By "craft," these authors indicate the skillful application of a s...

Monetary Policies and the US Federal Reserve System's Role

these goals and to perform its duties, the Federal Reserve Bank has a number of specific strategies it uses, such as discount rate...

Policy and Gun Control

logic of those for gun control and illustrate how they cling to smallest details, attempting to manipulate them to their own ends....

Gross Domestic Product and Fiscal Policy Impact

equilibrium. Economists are still arguing over whether the model, but it does give an explanation of unemployment in terms of insu...