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Austin H. MacCormack and Thomast Mott Osborne

hesitate to say what he believed and never compromised" (Thomas Mott Osbornes Within Prison Walls). In 1913, Osborne "was appoi...

Proposed Reforms to America's Tax System

a new system is necessary, its been difficult to get people to agree on what, exactly, that system should be. There have been prop...

Biography of Bill Clinton

for a second term, but won the office again four years later. He was Governor of Arkansas when he ran for President in 1992, defe...

President George W. Bush and Reforming Social Security

existed before 1935, these were extremely minimal. Social Services, as it is known in the United States, began during a bad econom...

Barbara Bovjerg's 2001 Testimony on Social Security Reform

In nine pages this paper examines this GAO employee's 2001 testimony to Congress on the future of the U.S. Social Security system ...

Is It Ethical to Change Policy Midstream?

in which to assist those whose financial situations warranted temporary government help has ultimately turned into a program that ...

Equitable Taxation and the Internal Revenue Service

concerns in the readers minds is the comment: "Its gotten so bad that even the IRS doesnt understand it (the tax code)"2...

US and UK Social Security Reforms

certain number of months. For a person born in 1939, as an example, full retirement come at 65 plus 4 months; a person born in 195...

Proposed Tort Reform

significant (Albert, 2004). As indicated by the position of the ATLA (1994), "defensive medicine" refers to tests or procedures th...

The Law of the Cayman Islands and the Process of Judicial Review

review may be sought, this was seen in the case of Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service [1985] AC 374...

China's Climate of Reform and Investment Management

information systems. There has been a dearth of financial information available in the past, but now it appears that information ...

Social Security Privatization and Reform

moved. 2. Birth rate has been declining for decades. 3. There are now 5 workers contributing to the Social Security payments to on...

California and Progressive State Reform

of being passed if that passage had been dependent on the Legislature (Inskeep and Montagne, 2004). These include laws relating t...

Update on LBJ's 'War on Poverty'

economy (Grier and Jonsson, 2004). These days, some of the programs continue - one of them being Medicare (Grier and Jonsso...

Reform and the U.S. Constitution

writes for the Yale Law Journal, provides a very compelling argument in the case of reform. His contention was that the Constituti...

Educational Management Business Model

model was the decentralized version that was child-centered proposed by progressives (Gelburg, 1997). Both models were based on ma...

Health Care Reform Crisis

time has run out for this dysfunctional, disjointed thing we cal heath care" (2002, p. A15). Increasing premiums force employers t...

Development of American Social Welfare

feeling persisted in the US that anyone who was willing to work would be able to find a job (U.S. Society, 2004). The Great Dep...

The Roman Shift from Republic to Empire

the will of the masses for personal gain...A citizens class was fixed by birth rather than by wealth. Patricians monopolized all o...

Comparing the Economic Reforms and Trade Liberalization of Latin America and Eastern Europe

reforms are supposedly helping these nations move into a more free market economy. But those who are actively pursuing the strateg...

Different Perspectives on the Prison System

prisoners when they went into the courtroom resulting in the death of the judge, the main perpetrator and others (CACC Newsletter,...

Global Financial System Reform Arguments

ended a rules based system and saw international financial systems move floating systems in the more industrialised countries (Par...

Need for Welfare Reform

IV. Problems Across the Nation A. Illinois and Tennessee appear...

Reform School, Boot Camp, and Group Therapy Retraining of Youth

of abuse, Massachusetts took the lead and integrated its traditional reform schools with community services, and many other states...

Public Health and Welfare Reform from Both Sides of the Issue

that speaks to the need to encourage otherwise nonproductive members of society to become more instrumental in their own well bein...

Reform of Congress?

interest groups, some of which are small in numbers, have become vocal and can capture the attention of the media with a proper "v...

NYC Schools and Vouchers

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

Reform and Ethics As They Relate to Nursing Home Care

or state agencies may seek and implement studies. II. Nursing Home Care for the Elderly Whenever nursing home care is an...

City Governments, Reformed v. Unreformed

power (1993). In other words, one may hold office but have a hard time maintaining popularity. One example comes from New York Cit...

Reform Debate Regarding U.S. Social Security

Social Security system and the reform of the program, it is helpful to explore its history. Why was this program that some equate ...