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Overview of the Federal Civil False Claims Act

in 1999 alone "returned almost $500 million to the federal government." (Butler, 2000, 1). The first question to consider...

Katrina, Rita, and FEMA's Response in 2005

funds many short-term solutions a. Provides grants for needs such as truck rental for those who cannot pay for it. b. Directs thos...

California: Emergency Response by Law Enforcement at State and Federal Levels

(Ghilarducci and Guerin, 1999). SEMS incorporates the following: the "Incident Command System," which is the "field level" respo...

US Economy, 2008

trillion as the forecast GDP in both February and March 2008, and a slight increase to $14.403 trillion in April 2008 (U.S. Gross ...

Tax on Goods

new cars. The federal excise taxes include a "gas guzzler" tax that is "imposed on new cars that fail to meet federal fuel economy...

Special Education Legislation And Impact

something to fear" (Forest and Pearpoint, n.d.). What we do know is that it costs about twice as much to educate a child with dis...

Nursing & Mandatory Overtime

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

Gilmer v. Interstate/Johnson Lane Corporation

law and made arbitration significantly stronger. In an interpretation, the ADR Institute explains the effect of Gilmer this way: ...

Pay Equity

"oppressive child labor" was defined. Under this act those who are not paid the required level can reclaim the lost wages as wel...

Free Banking Vs Federal Reserve

and public entities (Flaherty, 2003). However, the charter was not renewed in 1811 (Flaherty, 2003). With the lack of a central b...

HUMAN RESOURCE ANALYSIS: BEN & JERRY'S

300 days of the date of discrimination awareness (Wage Project, 2008). But Ben & Jerrys would also all under the U.S. Equal Emp...

Teen Pregnancy, Issue Analysis

and only 1.5 percent have a college degree by the age of 30, while close to 80 percent of all unmarried teen mothers end up on wel...

Controlling Organized Crime

contingencies of the contemporary world. The FBI Organized Crime Program utilizes a methodology designed to provide the maximum ef...

Tracking Juvenile Crime

adult arrests, which was only 33 percent for this period (Snyder, 2003). The juvenile population of the US in 2001 was 78 percen...

THE SUB-PRIME CRISIS AND FEDERAL RESERVE

"Private labels" began moving into the securitization business, and by 2003, government-sponsored enterprises ended up as the sour...

The Fair Tax

used by the wealthy to shield themselves from paying a fair share of the national tax burden. The fair tax would,...

Forecasting for a Fast Food Outlet

and ice creams sold in the summer, this looks at the trends rather than just the past performance. Regression analysis takes th...

The Necessity for a Federal Shielding Law for Journalists

grand jury, his sources will dry up and the attempted exposure, the effort to enlighten the public, will be ended" (Gora 1399). Go...

Georgia Tech - Parking Case Study

cost $4,000 per parking space to construct. Ground parking lots cost $1,000 per space to construct. The mathematical model upon w...

FedEx and the Use of Technology

can Fedex do to even further improve on its already technology oriented facilities? FedEx would introduce various products to enh...

The Paranoia That Led to the American Civil War

admittance was a critical one. At the time the scale was essentially balanced between those states that supported slavery and tho...

Affirmative Action and Nebraska’s Initiative 424

experience is flawed (Hansen, 2008a). Initiative 424, however, has both supporters and critics. Harvey Perlman (chancellor of th...

Laws About On-The-Job Injuries

to all workers in the state (U.S. Department of Labor, 2009). The specific qualifying criteria and benefits may differ from one st...

Revenue For Education

regions, with the greatest decrease in the West. The amount of funding derived from property taxes in states has fluctuated dram...

Preventing Sexual Harassment in Tennessee

president of a state university keeping his job but also being sanctioned for his behavior in Allen v. McPhee (2007). Preventing S...

Analysis of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA)

case of Pennsylvania Association for Retarded Children v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the district court prevented the state or ...

Black & Decker Financial Position

2009, 2005), released a Power & Hand Tools study in early 2005 concluding that "U.S. demand for power and hand tools is forecast t...

BANKING PANICS AND CREATION OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE

and Granting Annuities (Moen and Tallman, 2003). Still, the bank, during its infancy, created storms of controversy, as those in p...

FEDERAL RESERVE AND COMPARISON WITH STATES

This 6-page paper compares revenues from the Federal Reserve of San Fransisco to some of the states for which it is responsible. B...

FEDERAL AGENCY, ACQUISITION AND BIDDING PROCESS

acquisitions process, lets determine which contracting vehicle will be more appropriate for this system. Sealed-bid prici...