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- 6571: The NAFTA Scam
- ... deliberate policy of suppressing free trade unions in order to attract foreign investment. UNITE wants NAFTA renegotiated to guarantee the right to organize unions, the right to minimum health and safety standards, and prohibitions of child and prison labor. UNITE members and their families need a new NAFTA that benefits the working people of all three countries. What you can do Tell your Senators and Congresspeople to oppose fast-track and ...
- 6572: Censorship and the First Amendment: The American Citizen's Right to Free Speech
- ... freedom of expression, the right to freely represent individual thoughts, feelings, and views, in order to protect their families as well as others. These groups, religious or otherwise, believe that publishing unorthodox material is an abuse of free expression under the First Amendment. As we will come to find, our Supreme Court system plays an exceedingly important role in the subject of free speech and expression. As well as, understanding that ...
- 6573: Anti-Affirmative Action
- ... and middles-income Americans; Americans should work together toward broad based economic policies by consistently emphasizing broad-based, race-neutral policies. Examples may be, public investment, national health reform, an enlarged earned income, tax credit, child support assurance, and other policies benefiting families with young children.
- 6574: An Indian Woman In Guatemala: Without A Trace Of Bitterness In Her Voice
- ... Not only does one learn about the culture of her people and about the community in which she lives, but an understanding is gained as to impetus to react against ones oppressor. Born the sixth child to an already impoverished but well respected family, Rigoberta remembers growing up in the mountains on land that no one else wanted, spending months at a time going with her family to work on the ...
- 6575: The Graying of America
- ... makers of the Social Security system designed it with their present life spans in mind. When they created the program in 1935 and chose 65 as the retirement age, the average life expectancy of a child born in that year was only 61. Today, the average life expectancy is 76 years, and by 2030 it is expected to approach 80 years of age. As increasing numbers of Americans claim Social Security ...
- 6576: Government Funding for the Arts
- ... 5 a year if it were to go to the arts. * 64% a $10 increase and 56% a $15 increase. * 90% of the people feel that the arts should be a regular part of a child's education. * 54% of the people would cut spending on school sports programs before the arts programs (Philp 5). Another survey shows that 73% of the population would favor arts support even during a recession ...
- 6577: The Equal Rights Amendment
- ... s movement included equal pay for equal work, federal support for day-care centers, recognition of lesbian rights, continued legalization of abortion, and the focus of serious attention on the problems of rape, wife and child beating, and discrimination against older and minority women. The ERA would have addressed all of these issues if it were passed. Had it been adopted, the ERA would have resolved the paradox of an oppressed ...
- 6578: The New Federalist Party
- ... of time. A reasonable amount of time would be about one year, assuming that the person is actually looking for a job. Another incentive is to help with the costs of taking care of a child while a single parent goes to work daily. The next method of solution to the welfare state is to reduce the actual number of recipients by having a better enforced application screening process. There are ...
- 6579: The Federalist Papers and Federalism
- ... a federal act (qtd in American 85). The Federalist Papers also provide the first specific mention we have of the idea of checks and balances as a way of restricting governmental power and preventing its abuse. Both Hamilton and Madison regarded this as the most powerful form of government. As conceived, popularly elected House of Representatives would be checked and balanced by a more conservative Senate picked by state legislatures. (in ...
- 6580: The Presidential Election of 1972
- ... which indicated that he had played an active role in covering up the Watergate scandal. Nixon resigned the presidency when his impeachment and conviction appeared certain. The impeachment articles charged him with obstruction of justice, abuse of presidential powers and contempt of Congress. President Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974. The Watergate affair was perhaps the greatest political scandal in U.S. history. For the first time, a president was forced ...
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