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    In the article‚ Kristof gives examples of people in need of welfare checks in a poor part of Kentucky. He writes that the majority of Americans living in poverty have helpful appliances like washers‚ dryers‚ and microwaves‚ but “What they don’t have is hope.” The people living off of welfare checks at the expense of their children have no expectation to live better lives because‚ from their points of view‚ their lives cannot improve. After reading something as devastating as that‚ the audience will

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    Organization and Administration of Social Services (SOWK-SW 23B) Tutorial Assignment: Question 4 Tutor: What is Strategic Planning? Explain its relevance to the management of a Human Service Organization of your choice. What is building a house without a blueprint? In everything we do‚ planning is essential‚ it serves as a guideline. With reference to the question‚ strategic planning offers many benefits to social service organizations‚ operating within an environment‚ funding cutbacks and

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    governments‚ typically accounting for 90 percent or more of their income. The remainder of government revenue comes from borrowing and from charging fees for services. Countries differ considerably in the amount of taxes they collect. In the United States‚ about 30 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP)‚ a measure of economic output‚ went for tax payments in 2000. The 30 percent figure is relatively low from a historical standpoint. As a result of a new round of tax cuts in 2003‚ the tax percentage

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    Kendley Fleurentin Career & Financial Management What is tax ? Tax a compulsory contribution to state revenue‚ levied by the government on workers’ income and business profits or added to the cost of some goods‚ services‚ and transactions. People pay taxes every time they get a paycheck. They pay taxes for social security and medicaid. There are many advantages and disadvantages to paying taxes. Some advantages of paying taxes are control inflation ‚ discourage use of harmful products‚ revenue

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    There are many different functions of the government including; providing a legal system‚ promoting competition‚ providing public goods‚ ensuring economy wide stability‚ government-sponsored and government-inhibited goods‚ income redistribution‚ publicly subsidized healthcare‚ and economic issues of public education. Providing a legal system has helped to enable stability throughout the country for many years. It has established legal institutions‚ which specialize in understanding the rules

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    Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients The question at hand is‚ should recipients of welfare undergo drug testing for use of illegal drugs in order to receive their welfare checks? This is one of the issues that the US Congress and the US citizens have been debating for years. Author‚ Arthur Delany explains the concern of both sides of this question in his article‚ “Welfare Drug Testing Bill Introduced In Congress”‚ published in The Huffington Post. Like many social issues‚ there are opposing

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    Is Drug Testing Welfare Recipients Constitutional? OVERVIEW Recently Floridas governor Rick Scott put a new drug testing law into action. This law calls for the drug testing of welfare recipients‚ simply because taxpayers do not want to support drug addictions‚ but would rather the money go toward necessities like children and food. What do we as Americans do about this? Are there options to reform the welfare system? Other states have attempted laws similar to this but none have succeeded

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    Why Does Botswana Need a National Vision? Ē times & values in general have changed so significantly both domestically & around ē world. Bots finds itself having to introspect‚ position itself as well as maintain its valued culture & integrity. How the Vision was produced Ē work of defining Vision 2016 started in Aug 1996 by Presidential Task Group. They made a booklet entitled “A Framework for a Long Term Vision for Botswana”. Their task was to manage a process for consulting Batswana to discover

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    John describes pretty well the epistemology of Progressivism--but not the metaphysics. This site http://schoolmarm.org/main/index.php?pag… says "Progressivism has a respect for individuality..." then goes on to explain how people are manipulated by the educations system to be what the Progressives want them to be--unjudgmental of other people. It is precisely a respect for Individuality in the sense of Enlightenment politics and social sciences that Progressivism does not have. It’s metaphysics

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    globalization affect European Welfare States? Introduction The effect that the process of globalization is having on the European welfare states has been the subject of much debate. The source of this debate lies in the fact that there has been a positive correlation between economic openness and the size of the welfare state in European countries. This directly contradicts liberal economic theory that increased economic openness will require the retrenchment of the welfare state in order for national

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