While many Americans struggle to save forretirement, elected representatives and senators in the United States Congress receive substantial pension benefits for life. Though Congressional retirement pay is not typically a big election-year issue, it might serve as evidence of a disconnect between la...
“All of the secure border policies that we had in place with President Trump, he can simply flip the switch and put those back in place just like they were before. They didn't need an act of Congress,” Miller said in an interview with NBC's "Today...
With China's per capita disposable income rising 9.1 percent year on year in nominal terms to 35,128 yuan (5,545 dollars) last year, rapid improvement in Chinese people's lives had been seen in many aspects from dining tables to improved housing conditions, from rising pensions for the elde...
Paper presented at the the 1st World Congress of Sociology of Sport, Seoul, Republic of Korea, July 20–24; pp. 129–36. [Google Scholar] Swann, Christian, Aidan Moran, and David Piggott. 2015. Defining Elite Athletes: Issues in the Study of Expert Performance in Sport Psychology. ...
The reclamation of agricultural land generated by CLR is an important part of Shanghai’s implementation of the spirit of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the green development concept of “clear waters and green mountains are as good as mountains of gold and ...
The biggest downside of this data is its lack of timeliness; investors only get one update per quarter, and revisions can be large enough to significantly alter the percentage change in GDP. History of GDP The concept of GDP was first proposed in 1937 in a report to the U.S. Congress in...
But since there are so many opportunities to get elected to office, why do so many people insist on starting for the first time at the highest levels, like state legislature or Congress? Those (relatively) plum posts are just the tip of the elective iceberg an...
Many colleges don't require a student to be a citizen or permanent resident to qualify for institutional scholarships and grants, experts say. But undocumented students need to do their research, as state and college policies vary. George Washington University in Washington, D...
Many Republicans have expressed concern that a $600 weekly benefit, on top of existing state benefits, gives people an incentive to stay unemployed. The White House described the $400 level as an appropriate compromise, and top administration officials including Vice President Mike Pence on Monday ...
, like other members of Congress, has a flag-request form that I’d thought of only as a way to buy a flag flown over the Capitol. But on actually eyeballing that form, I realized that I could buy an unflown, 3-by-5-foot cotton flag for just $15… at a mandatory shipping cost...