POLICYMAKERS SHOULD REDUCE THE GOVERNMENT DEBT The U.S. federal government is far more indebted today than it was two decades ago. In 1980‚ the federal debt was $710 billion; in 1999‚ it was $3.7 trillion. If we divide today’s debt by the size of the population‚ we learn that each person’s share of the government debt is about $14‚000. The most direct effect of the government debt is to place a burden on future generations of taxpayers. When these debts and accumulated interest come due‚ future
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The United Way of America‚ based in Alexandria‚ Virginia‚ is a non-profit organization that works with more than 1‚200 local United Way offices throughout the country in a coalition of charitable organizations to pool efforts in fundraising and support. The focus of United Way is identifying and resolving pressing community issues‚ as well as making measurable changes in the communities through partnerships with schools‚ government agencies‚ businesses‚ organized labor‚ financial institutions‚ community
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their home country as a political refugee and is seeking asylum in another.”The big debate surrounding the area of asylum seekers is how to moderate the amount of boat people coming into Australia. The Malaysian Solution was one of the approaches to reduce the amount of asylum seekers arriving to Australia by boat. The Solution was this: If Malaysia accepted 800 of Australia’s next ‘boat people’ then Australia would accept 4000 of Malaysia’s ‘genuine refugees’ and integrate them into Australia. This
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Does Public Housing Reduce Homelessness? An Empirical Study Using Panel Data Abstract This paper tries to find out how public housing affects homelessness‚ conditional on other relevant factors. Five ordinary least squares (OLS) regression models‚ including bivariate regression‚ multivariate regression‚ and fixed effects regression are used to estimate the relationship between public housing and homelessness based on yearly state-level panel data from 2007-2013. The results indicate that public
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A Proposal to Reduce Mortality and Morbidity In Pennsylvania Motorcyclists XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Submitted XXXX Introduction Currently in the United States there are two groups in the arena of motorcycle safety equipment. One group regards safety equipment as one’s individual rights and freedoms. That group has lobbied state governments since 1976 when congress struck down the national helmet requirement. Many members of that group hold to the “biker” image and fight mandatory safety
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CHAPTER 4 RESULT & DISCUSSION The traffic light was designed on three junction. The traffic light changed from green to yellow‚ yellow to red‚ red to green and continuously followed the program coding. PWM and interrupt use on the LED of traffic light. The interrupt function to bother the brightness of LED based on PWM. PWM act at all traffic light to control the brightness of LED. 4.1 Schedule of traffic light for normal sequence For the first condition‚ the route of C and A will green if
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There is no strict consensus on a standard definition of poverty that applies to all countries. Some define poverty through the inequality of income distribution‚ and some through the miserable human conditions associated with it. Irrespective of such differences‚ poverty is widespread and acute by all standards in sub-Saharan Africa‚ where gross domestic product (GDP) is below $1‚500 per capita purchasing power parity‚ where more than 40 per cent of their people live on less than $1 a day‚ and poor
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In the film‚ Traffic directed by Steven Soderbergh‚ released on January 05‚ 2001‚ four stories are intertwined around the central issue of the war on drugs going on between the United States and Mexico. This film stars many Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated actors and actresses which include but are not limited to‚ Benicio Del Toro‚ Michael Douglas‚ Cetherine Zeta-Jones‚ Don Cheadle‚ Luis Guzman‚ Erika Christensen‚ among others. I felt sad‚ yet interested about the topic of the film‚ as while it
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“Western”1 world not so long ago—thus‚ a great deal of inquiries into the “Western” society were attempted by other disciplines‚ including but not limited to sociology‚ political science and philosophy. In this paper‚ building on Gayle Rubin’s essay “The Traffic in Women” and on the chapter from Judith Butler’s book “Undoing Gender” titled “Is Kinship Always Already Heterosexual?”‚ I will briefly explore the category of kinship‚ its relation and significance for the contemporary societies. Trying to envision
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