As seen in New York Times article "Paid Parental Leave: Who Gains?"" ... Such a situation can be seen in Kosovo where, considering the difficult economic times, many small and medium-sized businesses are violating the rights of women by avoiding hiring them. ... There would be a noticeable increase in taxes if the government foots the bill for the leave. ... However, such a policy means high taxes. ... However, this could result in higher taxes or disability insurance rates on remaining employees. ...

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Chapter Two Introduction & New York Times Article from January 12, 2003 Both the introduction and the New York Times article dated January 12, 2003 both deal with the wealth and power that some groups of people in society have over others in society. ... I believe the newspaper article to be much more "current" and more shocking at face value than the introduction to the chapter in the textbook. ... This way of thinking further enables Republicans to create laws and enact tax cuts that only benefit the big businesses and the wealthy upper class. The article also states that, "Americans ...

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According to the article, U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence from the Harvard Business School, article writer and professor, William R. ... They want to pay taxes, get a job, support their family, buy a car, and vote in elections. According to the Center for American Progress, "If these migrants are given work permits and brought into the system, they will contribute $45 billion over five years in payroll taxes to the United States economy" (New York Times). ...

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"Concerns About a Shrinking River Are Beginning to Heat Up" is an article presented in The New York Times that explains a tragic story of how a river that once flourished and provided aid to farmers throughout Central Texas has now deteriorated into small collections of sitting pools of water. ... The article goes on to explain certain individuals dealing with the adversity of the lacking water source. ... There are taxes that many households pay that have nothing to do directly to their family-including education taxes for public schools given that a family sends their children t...

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By making liquor illegal, the American government inadvertently gave criminals a new branch of goods to monopolize on. ... " The article, The Impact of Organized Crime on Chicago, defined labor racketeering as the "involvement of gangsters in legitimate businesses where they would then pose as regular workers" (Hales and Kazmers). ... Before the criminalization of alcohol, taxes gathered from alcohol sells made up a large portion of budget funds. ... Joseph Henchman, an attorney and policy analyst who supervises the Tax Foundation's state policy, notes that Prohibitionists intro...

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Then locate an article from The New York Times. ... In the article "A Promise to Protect Pension Will Test Greece's Red Line on Austerity," it's explained that Greece is currently suffering the social problems of tax increases, pension cuts, and unemployment. ... Tax increases are one solution but put a huge burden on the people of Greece. ... The country may decide to conduct further pension reductions and tax increases. ... In Modern Times, a Charles Chaplin movie, people are displayed as machine appendages similar to what Marx said. ...

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"The Fatal Flaws" by Bob Herbert The New York Times February 11, 2002 Article Summary In the spring of 2000, a team of lawyers and criminologists headed by Prof. ... The study also suggested that the errors that permeate throughout the system also leave killers at large, exacerbate suffering, waste tax dollars and deprive citizens of the high quality of justice, which they expect and deserve. ! ... The article implies that the emergence of new studies, such as Prof. ... It was also found that the courts, because of serious errors, reversed 68 % of all death sentences reviewed from 19...

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Without the Revolution America would not be the country it is today, it was one of the most influential wars of all times. ... After the stamp act was passed many more taxes were imposed including the townshend act, imposing taxes on imported goods and the sugar act, imposing taxes on sugar. ... The colonists would not put up with it and they decided that no matter what the tax was on they needed to be consulted before they were taxed. ... The war was brutal and bloody and there were more than three times as many casualties as there were in World War III. ... Imagine if every state was a d...

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The history that was made by the people of hundreds of nationalities, who came to the United States to seek a new life style, a new job and a new home. ... The article named "The Chinese Question" stressed what new device would be used to pass the Chinese bill. ... In keeping with the sentiment of the times, the editorial perceived the Chinese as the most alien of the immigrants to come to American shores. ... A prestige newspaper The New York Times called Miller's speech "a mastery statement, admirable in temper and judicial in fairness". ... The Chinese were faced to pay the immigration...

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The tactics used included literacy tests, grandfather clauses, poll taxes, and just plain scaring blacks and other groups out of showing up to the polls, usually with violence. ... In the discussion about whether these laws should be allowed, there have been comparisons made between Voter ID laws and the poll taxes that were used to stop minorities from voting back in the Jim Crow era. ... We call those poll taxes.... In the Patterson case, the court upheld a law that approved "burdening voters to protect election integrity, a conclusion that seems to bless the new ID requirements," as stated ...

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According to Lisa Schiffren, who wrote an article in the New York Times stated that, "The Government gives tax benefits, inheritance rights and employee benefits only to the married- (258). ... Fenton Johnson, who wrote an article in the Harper's Magazine, argues that, " if one subscribes to the principles that government should not serve specific religious agendas and that it should not discriminate on the basis of gender, there is no logical reason to limit marriage benefits to mixed-gender couples- (267). ... For example, Brent Hartinger in her article wrote, Two women, Sandra Rovir...

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One of the problems associated with new immigrants is that they enter the United States as confused, disoriented  individuals. ... Some move to ethnic pockets, such as New York City's Chinatown or Miami's Little Havana, where Chinese and Spanish respectively are sometimes more common than English" (Redemske 1 ). ... Immigrants have an extremely difficult time trying to acclimate to new cultural and social norms, which pushes them to settle within ethnic communities. ... Many times when the money is spent, the government is always too confused on how to spend the money when ...

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In an article by Eduardo Porter of the New York Times entitled "Dropping Out of College, and Paying the Price", he states that "More than 70 percent of Americans matriculate at a four-year college - the seventh-highest rate among 23 developed nations.... According to a graph found in the article "Reforming Student Aid" by Patrick Reimherr, Tim Harmon, Julie Strawn, and Vickie Choitz, compared to 1982, college tuition and fees have increased nearly five hundred seventy percent, while maximum pell grant reception has increased only two hundred nineteen percent. ... In an...

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This is where my argument lies, the marijuana industry is estimated at 40 billion dollars a year stated by (Ariel Nelson CNBC article). ... Cuomo of New York passed in his State of the State address that he is using his administrative powers to allow twenty hospitals to dispense marijuana to patients under State Department of Health regulations. ... As time continues and with the newer generations, the inevitable is bound to happen. ... People at times tend to be too stubborn to think investing in marijuana is a good and or a practical idea. ... As well the benefits from taxing it could help...

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In the United States, higher education institutions, such as colleges and universities, have been around since colonial times ("Historical Facts"). ... New York Times journalist Catherine Rampell reports that even jobs for the lowest level positions now require at least a bachelor's. ... Wayne Baker describes college graduates living, "healthier, longer lives...they continue [to] be productive and to pay taxes, contribute to Social Security, and so on." In his article, Dr. ... One of the misconceptions mentioned in the article is that most colleges cost $50,000 per ye...

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In 1971, a couple of those Americans, antagonistic Goldwater Republicans abhorred by Richard Nixon and what the GOP had become--socially conservative and the pusher of big government--gathered in the home of MIT graduate and founder of a new political economic classification known as the Nolan Chart, David Nolan. ... During the 1970s and 1980s, antiwar, anti-authoritism, antigovernment and anti-tax feelings came together to revive a long-stagnant political tendency." (6:6) In the following paragraphs I will discuss Libertarians stand on hot-button contemporary issues scourging the nation--ev...

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At one point, you could even be jailed for not complying during times of shortage in Virginia between 1763 and 1767. ... An article from the American Journal of Medicine elucidates how "Marijuana users will suddenly turn with murderous violence upon who's nearest to [them]. ... In 1937, the Marijuana Tax Act was passed by congress, the statue successfully criminalized marijuana and limited possession of the drug to individuals who paid an excise tax for certain authorized medical and industrial uses (PBS.org 2014). ...

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What is thought of as "probably the most important and the most satisfactory Act ever passed by Congress," the Judiciary Act of 1789 created for the people a system of courts that would ensure the presence of justice in the new American society. ... Often considered the decision most important to the future of America, the case dealt with the subject of a state tax on note issues of the Bank of the United States, which had been slotted in by Congress in 1816. Maryland argued in this case that the creation of the bank was the result of Congress exceeding its powers; hence, seeing that the b...

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Toronto is in fact actually the 4th largest city in North America behind Los Angeles (3rd place), New York City (2nd place), and Mexico City in first place according to the report posted on February 5, 2013 from the Huffington Post, written by Lauren Strapagiel. ... Laurent Martel, of the demography division of Statistics Canada has stated in the Toronto Star News article that she believes the population of Canada "will break the 40 million mark by 2026, and 50 million by 2054". ... However, according to Michael Burt, an economy writer for The Globe and Mail, some of Canada's t...

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Probably not, unless it's "tax-and-spend liberal."" Is there a literate adult living in this country who hasn't heard or read that dull, deceptive phrase literally hundreds or even thousands of times? ... The New York Times gave it to cultural critic Janet Maslin, who mildly criticized its "insult slinging- and "sarcastic overkill- but was too awed by its thirty-six pages of footnotes to determine whether any of them were accurate. ... Meanwhile, in the Los Angeles Times "repeatedly identified by Coulter as a mainstay of the liberal media monopoly "her book's friendly ...

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Milton Friedman is his essay printed in the New York Times on September 13, 1970 "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits," one can see the legal left side of the spectrum. ... If the executive imposes taxes and spends the proceeds for social purposes then he becomes in effect a civil servant and, as one should have been hired through a political process. ... Although Nike has had a bad track record in the past for maintaining any type of ethical standards, it should be noted that consistently every time an article revealing or accusing Nike of not conforming to ethi...

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Eugenics seems to have been a group of people using at times shaky genetics to spread fear and oppression of the lower classes. ... The ardent question then became, what to do with the poor and how to deal with the new immigrants that were mostly seen as less civilized then western Europeans. ... An article from 1873 about the sanitary conditions of New York City and its effects on children quoted Spencer saying "that the savage habit of exposing superfluous to parish from starvation, repulsive as it seems to the modern mind, was one method by which the human race was perfected.... The ex...

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With those harbors and airports which are capable of high rates of transportation, China has the ability to transport up to 9.5 times more goods in a year than the other three mentioned countries combined. ... " (Transparency International, the New York Times) According to the Corruption Perceptions Index of 2012, published by Transparency International, China outscored all the other three democratic countries, ranking 80th in the world (the lower the number is the less corruption is within the country).  ... The government can respond to investments faster; they can give out tax cuts an...

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In fact, the Social Security Administration reported over 6.4 billion dollars in unclaimed social security taxes in 2002, according to a recent New York Times article (porter, 2005). ... In a CNN Money article entitled "Illegal Workers: Good for US Eonomy" (Isidore, 2006), Sum was quoted saying that 85.5 out of 100 low skilled workers are foreign born and that this number is a good indicator of how immigrants are displacing native American low skill workers from domestic jobs. ...

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As stated by Mike Davis, in his article called, "Sand, Fear, and Money in Dubai " he says, "Dubai is a prototype of the new post-global city, which creates appetites rather than solves problems. " In addition he mentions "Dubai has become the new global icon of ˜imagineered urbanism' an emerging dream world of conspicuous consumption and what the locals boast as ˜supreme lifestyles " (Davis). ... According to the Dubai International Financial Centre, Dubai is projected to rival some of the world's rival international economic centres in, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, N...

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