the porn prohibitionists certainly wouldn’t agree. nor would legislators who continue to draft anti-porn laws. (the porn industry retaliated several months ago by hiring lobbyists in washington, for the first time ever, to advocate on its behalf.) it won’t be easy to curb content that ...
The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the Urban Institute, its trustees, or its funders. 被引量: 16发表: 2009年 America : who really pays the taxes? American: Who Really Pays the Taxes? is a disturbing, eye-opening look at a tax system gone out...
And fiscal troubles are just the tip of the iceberg. California's percentage of adults without at least a high-school education is the second-highest in the nation (and the fact that 72% of those without diplomas are immigrants only fuels the state's growing problem of social stratification)...
Joe Patrice:That isn’t in any way what we’re talking about, what we’re talking about is the fact that there are people who are trial attorneys, who are incapable of giving a speech and it seems as though it’s because something was thrown in front of them and they don’t un...
Those who are inventing the technologies can play an important role in easing the effects. “Our way of thinking as engineers has always been about automation,” says Hod Lipson, the AI researcher. “We wanted to get machines to do as much work as possible. We always wanted to increase pr...
Consumer activists are pressing Congress for better privacy laws without much result so far. The legislators lean toward letting business people track our financial habits virtually at will. As an example of what’s going on, consider U.S. Bancorp, which was recently sued for deceptive practices...
Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman has been working since he took the job in 2022 to navigate thorny relationships with Republican legislators who view the system as a liberal incubator. Last year,the GOP forced the system to scale back its diversity initiatives. ...
Relying on previous research, we suggest that legislator gender, legislator partisanship, and issue area may all affect which legislators are punished for not compromising. Relying on two national experiments, we demonstrate that the extent to which lawmakers are punished for not compromising is ...
there are always “bugs to work out”. Sometimes we can anticipate what these will be, but many times we “cross that bridge when we come to it." Such seems to be the case with assisted reproduction. Considering the complicated custody battles already occurring with regard to our “naturally...
2.1.1Legislatures and Regulatory Agencies Legislatures are incentivised to make rules concerning politically salient issues. An issue’s political salience connotes ‘its importance to the average voter, relative to other political issues.’Footnote15Legislators depend on their electorate to remain in ...