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- 6841: The McDonaldization of Society
- ... They dominate our highway interchanges-every exit looks the same. It's not only the food industry that represents this process of McDonaldization. Toy stores (Toys R Us), Bookstores (B. Dalton's), Newspapers (USA Today), child care (Kinder Care), learning (Sylvan Learning Centers) and a host of others have followed. "In the 1980s and 1990s McDonaldization has extended its reach into more and more regions of society, and those areas are ...
- 6842: From Welfare to Workfare
- ... Conservative beliefs) Welfare should help people in their time of need until they get back on their feet. This was becoming less and less the case in the late eighties and early nineties, when welfare abuse became such a major issue. According to the Progressive Conservatives, this gave way to workfare. "UNDERSTANDING THE BASICS OF WORKFARE" As earlier stated, the subject of workfare was first introduced in the 1994 campaign of ...
- 6843: Technology Jobs
- ... population to earn a high school diploma. This means that anyone, regardless of family income, could be educated to a level that would allow them a comfortable place in the middle class. Even restrictions upon child labor hours kept children in school, since they are not allowed to work full time while under the age of 18. This government policy was conducive to our economic markets, and allowed our country to ...
- 6844: Individual Retirement Accounts: Why Bother?
- ... normal income tax rate of thirty percent, the value could shrink down to as little as $1,400,000. A $600,000 penalty that could have been avoided. By leaving the account to a or child, the IRA could have continued to exist tax deferred for several generations; this strategy would also avoid the income taxes that would otherwise be outstanding on the account. Additionally if you take money out before ...
- 6845: The Great Depression
- ... 156 to 1,489 between 1920 and 1929, a phenomenal rise compared to other decades. But it is still less than 1 percent of all income-earners. 1922 The conservative Supreme Court strikes down federal child labor legislation. 1923 President Warren Harding dies in office; his administration seemed to me, to be one of the most corrupt in American history. Calvin Coolidge, who is squeaky clean by comparison, becomes president. Coolidge ...
- 6846: Economic Policy
- ... of there income in taxes every year" (RNC Talking Points). This is way to much money for Americans to be paying. "Cutting everyone's taxes by 15 percent and giving them a 500 dollar per child tax credit would cut a typical families tax bill in half, allowing them to keep an average of $1,600 more of its hard-earned money"(RNC Talking Points). The question is often asked as ...
- 6847: AT&T
- ... community. They have the AT&T Foundation that supports projects in education, health, social action and the arts. They also care about the employees. They have work and family programs that they fund. These include child care and elder care that both have been commended by the United States Department of Labor. One last program is the Total Life Concept Program which addresses employee health, nutrition and stress management. AT+T ...
- 6848: Consumer Alert
- ... publicizes public policy achievements by member organizations. Consumer Alert also sponsors conferences to foster discussion of important consumer issues. Consumer Alert is clearly on the side of the consuming people. The people, and preventing their abuse, is the number one priority for Consumer Alert as seen through their vigilant watch over legislation in out government. They are our watchdogs. Consumer Alert's National Consumer Coalition forum features leading public policy experts ...
- 6849: Canada's Unemployment Rate
- ... and proper thing to do, as it is in the best interests of society as a whole. However, when this generosity is taken advantage of by undeserving recipients, problems and controversy arise. The problem of abuse of Canadian social services has become prominent in 1996. The general consensus of organizations such as the Fraser Institute and the OECD, is that Canada's generous social safety net is a disincentive to work ...
- 6850: Crime and the Black Market in Modern Day China
- ... reestablish his former trade . The sale of women was acknowledged as being among six types of very serious and widespread crimes targeted for suppression from the autumn of 1989. This suggests that, before then, the abuse of power in the form of deliberate laxity in the face of serious crime had become a major problem among police and other authorities. In a Beijing newspaper interview, Li Tieying, a CCP (Chinese Communist ...
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