Short Essay: Policy-Making in the Federal System Obama’s Care “Medicaid – not Medicare Frances Johnson POL: 201 American National Government Instructor‚ Carol Parker July 12th‚ 2012 During the 2008 federal campaign‚ Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama placed comprehensive health care reform at the centre of his platform. In the light of the growing problems facing the US health care system‚ the time seemed ripe for another attempt to control
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EPA – Policy-making in the Federal System POL 201 Instructor: Matthew Szlapak Monday‚ April 29‚ 2013 The federal government enacted the Clean Air Act‚ so as to protect the citizens of the United States. At the same time Congress created the Environmental Protection Agency with its primary role of regulating and the enforcement of environmental policies at the state and tribal levels. A brief history on air pollution‚ in October 1928 in the industrial town of Donora Pennsylvania a thick
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Policy Making in the Federal System Stephanie Stratton POL 201 5/11/15 Jamie Weitl The topics of health care and health care reform are two of the most highly debated topics in society today. The Obama Care Plan is at the center of the health care crisis. Obama Care is aimed at reinforcing the American system of health care. The main focus of Obama Care is to regulate the industry of health insurance and also reduce spending. Obama Care was signed into law on March 23‚ 2010. The primary
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SOCIAL POLICY Social Policy and the Welfare System Leigh-Ann Hancock Kaplan University HN300-01 Human Services and Social Policy Professor Lorena Lashway May 1‚ 2012 Social Policy and the Welfare System Over one hundred years ago poverty-stricken Americans’ means of assistance was met through families‚ local communities‚ and charities‚ typically religious. Following industrialization in the 1870s‚ the nation’s adult workforce was flooded by employers who were dependent on a continuing flow
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Eric Spilman Policy-making in the Federal System Pol201: American National Government February 4‚ 2013 The United States Government plays a big role in the policies or programs that the citizens can like or dislike but really don’t have the overall say. When it comes to the policies that get put into place not everyone is going to be happy with it. Sure‚ some policies will benefit some people more than others and some can just plain benefit the ones who run the country. Obamacare has some
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UNEMPLOYMENT Nowadays‚ some of the macroeconomics and policy makers assume that unemployment and inflation are too bad‚ because both of this factor able to reduce social welfare (Ruprah & Luengas‚ 2011). The growth and shocks in unemployment may be able to reduce of this deregulation of monetary policy that has been followed with high volume of growth (Eatwell‚ 2000). Among industrial and developed countries‚ long-term trends in unemployment since the world war show a distinct break in 1970s
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Policies for Reducing Unemployment There are two main strategies for reducing unemployment - • Demand side policies to reduce demand-deficient unemployment (unemployment caused by recession) • Supply side policies to reduce structural unemployment / (the natural rate of unemployment) Demand Side Policies [pic] Demand side policies are important when there is a recession and rise in cyclical unemployment. (e.g. after 1991 recession and after 2008 recession) 1. Fiscal
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UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE POLICY (prepared by Tadey Tarimo) Unemployment occurs in many forms and it has been a crucial problem countryside and whole over the world. These have become an issue to majority of Tanzanian and many people around the globe‚ the situation has forced various countries to either formulate or adopt some policies to rectify the issue. The magnitude of the issue has practically depicted in the research conducted in 2012 by African Economic Outlook in Tanzania‚ the study which
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Social Welfare Policy is laws and even rules that have improve or help the lives of people that who live in these communities. Social Welfare policy is important because the policies form all the framework that tend to allow people to live within their rights. When we are talking about social welfare policies in reference to abortion‚ there are plenty of policies that are in place that relates to abortion. To be honest‚ abortion is a topic that always cause controversies because of the moral belief
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Federal Highway Policy: Minimum Legal Drinking Age Ashley Miller American National Government Mark Ladd February 17‚ 2014 The Minimum Legal Drinking Age (MLDA) laws were created in the US after the Prohibition in 1933. AT this time‚ many states set the MLDA at 21. When the voting age was lowered to 18 in 1971‚ many states also lowered their drinking age to 18 or 19 (Fell‚ 2009). After the lowering‚ the amount of alcohol related accidents involving young adults age 18 to
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