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Illinois House and Senate Leadershave suedGovernor Pat Quinn, demanding that the state’s legislative salaries be immediately reinstated. Upset with the legislature’s inability to resolve the state’s pension crisis, Governor Quinn exercised his line item veto authority and eliminated the $13.8 millio...
Do changes in state and federal mandates affect teacher motivation in the state of Maine? Four years ago a study was done on 60 past and present teachers throughout the state of Maine to determine what was keeping them in the professions, why th... HD Couturier - Dissertations & Theses -...
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•ME-Sen: It’s stuff like this which have me convinced that Olympia Snowe is definitely not out of the woods. Her fellow Maine senator, Susan Collins, said she won’t support Rep. Paul Ryan’s Medicare-killing budget plan, which seems to put the screws to Snowe. It’s a pretty ...
The Impact of Public Pension Funds and Other Limited Partners on the Governance of Venture Capital Funds We examine whether the reinvestment choices of public pension funds (PPFs) affect the governance of venture capital funds. We start with a hand-collected d... V Atanasov,T Hall,V Ivanov,...
Long-term problems include stagnation of wages for lower-income families, inadequate investment in deteriorating infrastructure, rapidly rising medical and pension costs of an aging population, energy shortages, and sizable current account and budget deficits - including significant budget shortages for ...
Richard and Maurice McDonald, the founders ofMcDonald's, were actually born and raised in New Hampshire. After their father lost his job and didn't have a pension, the brothers became determined to take control of their own lives and not rely on employers. They moved to California and ini...
Onlyfour states, Vermont, Maine, West Virginia, and Mississippi have majority rural populations in the entire country. The latter two, along with other states with a higher share of rural residents (including Arkansas, Kentucky, and Alabama) tend to havehigher poverty ratesas well. ...
Augusta, Maine:A state Superior Court judge orderedMaine Gov. Paul LePageto follow through on a voter-approved ballot initiative to expand Medicaid in the state, something that he has previously resisted. Advocates of such an expansion, bringing benefits to around 80,000 low-...