Public Affairs & Policy
epub, mobi |eng | 2017-07-02 | Author:Bruce Cannon Gibney

Antisocial Security All OAB programs struggle for the simple reason that they never received enough funding in the first place. FDR may have hoped Social Security would be self-sustaining and ...
( Category: Commentary & Opinion March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Jesse Ventura

• In 2014, the drug overdose death rate for whites aged twenty-five to thirty-four was five times what it was in 1999. • The overdose rate for thirty-five-to-forty-four-year-old whites tripled ...
( Category: Social Policy March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-28 | Author:Medea Benjamin

HOW DID THE PRESENCE OF U.S. TROOPS ON SAUDI SOIL CONTRIBUTE TO THE 9/11 ATTACKS? During the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, Saudi Arabia and the United ...
( Category: Cultural Policy March 22,2017 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Steve Keen [Keen, Steve]

Such an ‘axiom’ is transparently nonsense – something that might have led a sensible person to stop at this point. But instead Lucas immediately moved on to an equivalent way ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Iceland, John

A fair reckoning of these two arguments—one economic and one cultural—is that both have elements of truth to them. Below I draw extensively from an excellent review of the social ...
( Category: Labor & Industrial Relations March 22,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-06-08 | Author:Ham, Mary Katharine & Benson, Guy [Ham, Mary Katharine]

* * * 1 Disabled. 2 Guy’s score: 25. Ruling: “Advantaged.” Also, we are 95 percent sure this website is satire. 3 You, dear reader, are almost guaranteed to be ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 22,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-09-19 | Author:Jonathan Tepperman [Tepperman, Jonathan]

At virtually the same time that Botswana and Singapore were struggling to survive their difficult births, another newborn nation found itself in similar straits. Strictly speaking, Korea wasn’t new, of ...
( Category: Canadian March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel L. Hatcher

Welfare Cost Recovery: Modern-Day Bastardy Acts The poverty industry’s pursuit of child support as a government cost recovery strategy harkens back to the time when children born out of wedlock ...
( Category: Social Services & Welfare March 19,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-11-18 | Author:Richard Haass [Haass, Richard]

7. Pieces of Process When I taught at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, a common theme was that 90 percent of life in the public sector was implementation. Policy design ...
( Category: National & International Security March 19,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jerry McBeath

Institutional Form and North Dakota’s Exceptional Places During a four-month period in 2013 to 2014, the North Dakota oil and gas regulatory community came alive over a proposal to give ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 15,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dan Egan

THE DNA EVIDENCE THAT ASIAN CARP ARE SWIMMING IN LAKE Michigan has mounted in recent years. It turned up some 200 miles north of Chicago in the waters of Wisconsin’s ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 9,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-05-31 | Author:Chomsky, Noam & Schoeffel, John & Mitchell, Peter R. [Mitchell, Peter R.]

“Want” Creation MAN: But you could say that “to truck and barter” is human nature—that people are fundamentally materialist, and will always want to accumulate more and more under any ...
( Category: Social Policy February 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-27 | Author:Louis Klarevas

Francisco Gonzales had repeatedly told family members that he would kill himself, and he threatened to take others with him. He even told a few acquaintances that his last day ...
( Category: Social Policy February 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-05 | Author:Michael Marmot [Marmot, Michael]

By focusing on the problem in a strategic way, working with young people, giving them access to information, and perhaps above all, caring, authorities in these towns lowered the toll ...
( Category: Social Policy February 26,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-02-25 | Author:Cass R. Sunstein [Sunstein, Cass R.]

SIX The Morality of Risk Pioneering the modern literature on the use of heuristics in cognition, Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman contended that “people rely on a limited number of ...
( Category: Public Affairs & Administration February 26,2017 )