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Presimetrics
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Michael Philip Kimel |
The authors, Mike Kimel and Michael E. Kanell have gathered and analyzed data on more than a dozen critical national issues including GDP, personal income, health care, jobs, national security, educa… |
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Re-made in the USA
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Todd Lipscomb |
"A business-based rallying cry to reclaim the US economy. There is a nagging feeling that the U.S. is slipping as a nation and our people are powerless to do anything to fix it. Issues such as jobs, … |
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Government entitlement
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Jeff Burlingame |
"Allows readers to use critical thinking to create informed opinions on where they stand on the issue of government entitlement"--Provided by publisher. |
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Investing in children
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Ron Haskins,Ariel Kalil,Jenny Chesters |
"Presents new research by leading scholars in Australia and the United States on economic factors that influence children's development and the respective social policies the two nations have designe… |
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Crime Policy In America Laws Institutions And Programs
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Shahid Shahidullah |
"This book is a systematic examination of the nature of America's crime and criminal justice system as defined by its policy-makers at different times and in disparate contexts of social and politica… |
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Upheaval
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Lou Dobbs |
"Bestselling author and host of Lou Dobbs Tonight offers his illuminating views on some of our nation's most intractable problems. In 2012, Lou Dobbs Tonight celebrated its one-year anniversary and a… |
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America
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Bob Ehrlich |
Former politician and author Bob Ehrlich "explores the cause and remedies to the seven most difficult issues confronting (and confounding) our culture and country ... [presenting] an urgent call to a… |
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Gay and lesbian rights in the United States
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Walter L. Williams |
The movement for gay and lesbian rights in America is a response to long-held beliefs that have, at times throughout the history of the United States, made homosexuality legally, politically, and soc… |
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Creating an opportunity society
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Ron Haskins |
"Presents facts and factors that contribute to economic opportunity, looking at how poor, middle class, and rich have fared in recent decades. Proposes a cost-effective agenda for increasing opportun… |
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To renew America
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Newt Gingrich |
Many people in government and the media tried to stop the publication of this book so that you could not read it. But now you can. On November 9, 1994, for the first time in forty years, the Republic… |
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Indian work
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Daniel H. Usner |
202 pages : 25 cm |
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Return to sender
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Ralph Nader |
"In letters addressed to Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama, Ralph Nader provides incisive critiques of more than a decade of American policy decision and indecision. Each letter offers frank ad… |
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Today's economic issues
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Nancy S. Lind |
"Both the Democratic and Republican parties proclaim that they have the best interests of the nation and its people at heart. Both are also adamant that they have the best proposals and positions on … |
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Democracy by disclosure
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Mary Graham |
Annotation
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Please Stop Helping Us
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Jason Riley |
The author believes that "many efforts by liberals to help the black underclass not only fail but often harm the intended beneficiaries. The intentions behind welfare programs may be noble, but in pr… |
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Taking sides
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Kurt Finsterbusch,George McKenna |
This volume presents current controversial issues surrounding current controversial issues in the field of sociology in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critic… |
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Welfare as we knew it
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Noble, Charles |
Compared to other rich Western democracies, the U.S. does less to help its citizens adapt to the uncertainties of life in a market economy. In Welfare As We Knew It, Charles Noble offers a groundbrea… |
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Beyond red and blue
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Peter S. Wenz |
"Wenz maps out twelve political philosophies - ranging from theocracy and free-market conservatism to feminism and cosmopolitanism - on which Americans draw when taking political positions. He then t… |
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American apartheid
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Douglas S. Massey |
Traces the development and consequences of white society's attempts to segregate and isolate blacks as they migrated from the South to other parts of America during the 20th century. |
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One Nation, One Standard
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Herman Badillo |
Why aren't Hispanics succeeding like Asians, Jews, and other immigrant groups in America? Herman Badillo's answer is as politically incorrect as the question: Hispanics simply don't put the same emph… |
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