People living in rural communities and those at the lower end of the income spectrum tend to bear the brunt of the digital divide. According to the FCC, the digital divide between rural and urban America “remains too large to bring rural communities fully into the digital age,” with...
Businesses may find employees who are unwilling to accept training. This can happen in industries dominated byunionssince increased job security could make it more difficult to hire trained professionals or fire less-trained employees. However, unions may also negotiate with employers to ensure that t...
a restrictive covenant may limit how much public companies pay their shareholders individends. It may also place a cap on executive salaries. Failure to abide by restrictive covenants can result in fines and other penalties, including
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“I don’t want to deny the optimism,” Kramer says. “I deny the assumption that it will happen without effort.” So does research from a prominent American sociologist. Robert Putnam, author of “Bowling Alone,” says his studies of multiracial neighborhoods in America show that more divers...
When Lawrence expressed in online forums for Black men that he was leaning toward Trump, some responded that the former president would bring back the Jim Crow era, which alienated Lawrence further. “None of that is going to happen,” Lawrence said. “At that point, my mind...
fire departments and schools do all the time — applying for available resources to cover costs that have not been covered in their public budgets.This amendment would make it impossible to get outside help to cover extraordinary expenses. It does this without requiring that the state actually al...
How does fiscal policy affect the economy? What would an economic system look like in a world without economic growth? How can a country sustain its economic growth? What is happening to inequality in the USA in terms of economics? How might this affect future economic growth in Ame...
starts to relax its immigration policy to attract more high-skill foreign workers to work in the U.S., what would happen to the U.S. GDP and GNP in the short term? How does a small nation, like Singapore, without na...
How much income have you earned? Will your income change in the next six months? How much money have you spent? Have you dipped into your savings? If so, how much? If you continue to spend at this rate, what will happen in the next six months?