…parks were closed and passports and visas stopped being processed. Even worse, more than 20% of federal contracts, representing $3.7 billion in spending, were affected adversely. Keywords: Congress, economy, employment…
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…Local Immigration Regulation,” investigates the economic impact of restrictive immigration laws. It found that in places where local anti-immigration laws were enacted, employment fell by 1% to 2%. On average,…
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…people for employment. Other provisions included work-study grants for students, assistance for needy children and loans to poor rural families. Despite this and five decades of other efforts to combat…
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…year olds who hold jobs (i.e., ‘prime age employment’) was almost 5% lower than it was in December 2007, both for men and women alike.” Keywords: poverty, economy, financial crisis…
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…lowering the corporate tax rate from 35% to 25% is likely to lead to high revenue losses and only small income and employment gains. Related research: Another 2014 study from…
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…to maximize refunds by altering filing statuses: Employment rules. Low-income people find it hard to control their own work hours in precarious and unstable jobs. Rather than changing the number…
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…donating more money to domestic charities or by making superficial changes in employment policies. Aware that negative media coverage can hurt corporate reputations, executives may respond not by correcting abuses…
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…health, education, employment, credit and goods and services. This combination of circumstances and technology raises difficult questions about how to ensure that discriminatory effects resulting from automated decision processes, whether…
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…analysis, Liu and Mikesell examined more than 25,000 convictions of public officials for violating federal corruption laws. Factors weighed included states’ population, employment and income levels, as well as legal…
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…has shown that when mothers have access, their children’s incomes and education levels rise. Access also has been shown to improve women’s employment and wage rates in the decades after…
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