The Unemployment Rate
.... feel that it is unmeaningful
to live. As a result, they will commit suicide to solve the problem. Moreover,
the high unemployment rate results in the increase of the rate of crime. There
was an unemployed man who stole rice because he was too hungry and he did not
have money to even buy food! We can know how serious the unemployment rate is.
By the way, higher unemployment rate causes lower purchasing power of people. A
lot of kinds of business are affected. Many people lose confidence in economics
of H .....
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The Welfare System Must Remain
.... been made that poor women have
more children because of the incentives of welfare benefits. It has been
proven that is no correlation between women's choice to have children and
welfare benefit levels. Furthermore, for each additional child, a mother can
expect an additional $90 of AFDC benefits, far too low to serve as any type of
incentive. In addition, those states that provide higher benefits do not
necessarily show higher birth rates among their welfare recipients. Families
receiving AFDC ben .....
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Total Quality Management In Construction
.... what the upper management required, the business would be
successful.
Organizations are composed of the people in them and the managers who
lead them. People respond strongly to leadership expectations and rewards. If
they are given little power in their jobs, they have little interest in
improving them. If leaders exhort the members for better output but reward
(promotions, bonuses, recognition) for mostly higher output, they get the
behavior they reward. Quantity over quality has been a common mana .....
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The Trend Towards Fewer And Larger Farms As Economic Growth Occurs
.... in this sector
produce nearly all of the farm products produced the US but are only contribute
to small parts of the farms in the US. The expanding sector of agriculture
numbered 271,000 farms in the 1980's. This number increased to 326,000 farms by
1991. The off of the farm income of this sector is only $20,847 per farm. The
total income per farm averaged $180,276 per year. This sectors main income
comes from farming and very little of its income comes from off of the farm jobs.
This sector is gr .....
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Economics: Turn Around Is Fair Game
.... Foreign governments subsidize the manufacturing
processes of certain industries so their companies can displace the
competition's industry. The television industry is a perfect example of
subsidized dumping. The post World War II infusion of subsidized Japanese-made
televisions, terminated the United States(U.S.) television manufacturing
industry. In the late 1950's, half a million units crossed our borders, tax and
tariff free. These television sets were made using cheaper components and
cheaper la .....
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Unemployment
.... or less. About a quarter of those
unemployed at any particular time are employed one month later. This means that
a considerable degree of unemployment in the United States is frictional and
lasts only a short time. This type of unemployment could be reduced somewhat by
more efficient placement services. When workers are free to quit their jobs,
some frictional unemployment will always be present.
The second form of Unemployment is structural unemployment. Structural
unemployment arises from an imba .....
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Unemployment
.... shown that
the informal support systems, like friends and relatives, can help absorb shock
against the negative effects of unemployment (Unemployed 1).
The latest unemployment rate for August '96 shows that 4.3 percent of
Vermont's citizens are unemployed. That is about fourteen thousand people in
just this one small state (Griffin 1). Think of how many people are unemployed
in the entire United States. That would be over five million people. If people
wanted to get out and get a job, they probobl .....
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U.S And Japan Car Industries
.... when they penetrated the American
market; hard market research and heavy investment. The Japanese spent billions
of dollars studying American taste and manufacturing models that suited them.
The Big Three have generally confined their efforts to sending models that they
have made specifically for Americans. Bill Duncan, the head of the Japan
Automobile Manufacturers Assn. states that "it was the basic principals of
competition that made the Japanese automobile industry strong."
One example which reflec .....
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US And Russia Relations After The Defeat Of The USSR:
.... to make more peaceful world, even if they were
ready to destroy each other not that long ago. United States needed Russia as a
strong partner in the twenty first century.
Russia went through many changes in its economy since the Russian
Federation took over the Soviet Union. "An economy devoted almost entirely to
the production of military goods was forced to begin to provide what its
citizens demanded, not what its rulers ordered" (Pickering 100). But it wasn't
that easy. Russian government appeared .....
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U.S. And Swedish Trends In Tax Reform
.... the tax reform proposals that are now currently being
thought about in Congress.
In 1986 the United States Congress enacted the Tax Reform Act (TRA-86).
The act passed with a great deal of bipartisan support. This support was made
possible by two features of the act. The first was that federal income tax
rates were to be cut dramatically. While this would lead one to believe that
federal government receipts were cut substantially as well, it was the second
important feature of the bill that allowed i .....
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U.S Auto Industry's Market Share And Fluctuations
.... GM's only major competition was from U. S. manufacturers.
However, since the first foreign truck was imported from Japan in 1956, GM's
share of the market began to decline. Foreign cars were smaller, more fuel
efficient, less expensive, and often more reliable than their American
counterparts. General Motor's market share dipped from nearly 44% in 1973 to
below 30% in 1985. In response to this sudden drop in its share of the market GM
founded the Saturn Company. Saturn produces compact cars very similar t .....
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The Forever Changing Economy
.... are market pressures that develop for different commodities. The
pressures work in one direction for a while, but at the same time pressures are
budding that work in the opposite direction. As people look forward and see
there's going to be some profit made from their production, they'll make
decisions to increase volume, usually hiring more people, buying more materials,
often bidding up their prices. When people are competing in the same market,
that tends to generate more and more pressure in the .....
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The Used Car Industry
.... is" or, at
best, with a very limited warranty. If a buyer of a used car drives off the lot
and finds they have purchased a vehicle that needs lots of money spent on it for
repairs, they may possibly find themselves out of luck. Another downside may
come as more people continue to saturate the market, looking for used cars to
buy, the resources available will become scarce. An increase in used car prices
may gradually start to rise. As the figures indicate, for now consumers seem to
be content with takin .....
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Virtual Banking
.... demanding more
convenient ways to do their banking. An Ernst and Young study (Technology in
Banking Report) concluded that "nothing changes in the banking world if
customers cannot get financial services when and where they wish...this means
anywhere, at any time." Statistics show that ATM's, telephone banking, and home
banking account for over fifty percent of all banking transactions today, and
total non-branch activity is growing at fifteen percent a year. In one survey
(Web-Tech, Inc., May 17, 1995), .....
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Why Are Gasoline Prices Going Up So High?
.... than
they did in the past. According to Royko, "even today's luxury cars give you
better gas mileage than the cheapest Chevies, Fords and Plymouths did not that
long ago." What does this mean? This means that gas prices should logically go
up. It's the basic law of supply and demand. It's true that more Americans are
driving, but the gasoline suppliers still deserve to get paid fairly.
And what about inflation? Well, when you take inflation into account, the price
for gasoline is less now th .....
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