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Prices, Poverty, and Inequality: Why Americans are Better Off Than You Think - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Conventional wisdom holds that economic well-being has stag-nated or declined for virtually all Americans over the past twenty-five years except those at the very top of the income distribution.This wisdom takes the form of two commonly held beliefs: that themiddle class and the poor are, at best, no better off economicallythan they were in the early 1980s, and that economic inequality hasdramatically increased because those at the top of the income pyra-mid have captured all of the last three decades’ economic gains.The stagnation of the real wages of poor Americans has beendocumented in a wide range of sources. For example, the Congres-sional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that between 1979 and 2005the real hourly wages of workers at the 10th percentile of the wagedistribution rose by only 0.2 percent.1 Moreover, official nation-wide poverty rates have remained essentially unchanged from the1970s, at around 12 percent of all households. Much of the debateon why incomes have not risen faster for this group of workers hasfocused on factors related to the workers themselves, such as edu-cation and training.Although these forces are clearly important, relatively little atten-tion has been paid to how nominal wages are converted into realwages in official statistics. In particular, the analysis underlying thecommon wisdom has tended to assume that the standard officialmeasures of inflation correctly capture the changes in the cost of liv-ing of Americans over time, and hence the failure of wages to keepup with prices has been used as prima facie evidence that the poorin America have not benefited from the last several decades of eco-nomic growth
First Kisses 4: It Had to Be You - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Chapter OneIam a girly-girl.With three older brothers who areobsessed with sports and cars and videogames, it would have been easy for me to growup a tomboy, but I didn’t.From the time I was little, I’ve loved beinga girl! Dresses with ruffles. Colored tights.Shiny black Mary Janes. I used to wear themall! Very rarely would I wear T-shirts andjeans, but if I did, there was always somethingfeminine about them. Like my jeans wouldn’t1be blue. They’d be yellow or purple andtrimmed with lace on the cuffs. And my T-shirts would say things like: DADDY’S LITTLEGIRL or SWEET AS SUGAR.I used to have tea parties with my stuffedanimals and I would serve cakes made with myEasy-Bake oven. Cliché, I know. I even hadevery Barbie imaginable, including all theaccessories, as well as a few Bratz dolls.Confession: I always loved my Barbies morethan my Bratz dolls. Barbie just seemed moreelegant. And she had her own Dream House!I’ve always had pierced ears. My oldestbrother, Rob, who’s nineteen and just finishedhis first year of college, says this is becausewhen I was a baby and our mom used to takeme out in my carriage, people would alwaysstop her and say, “What a cute baby boy!” eventhough I was wearing pink and I had a PebblesFlintstone hairstyle (a tuft of hair sticking upon the top of my head and tied with a bright-colored ribbon).Earrings are fun. My jewelry box is filledwith all sorts of different styles. Some days I2like wearing tiny hoops. Other days I likewearing earrings that are long and dangling.Sometimes I’ll just go simple and wear goldstuds. My mom has a fabulous earring collec-tion and sometimes she’ll let me borrow a pair,but only if I ask permission. Sneaking into herjewelry box is not allowed. That’s because herearrings are made of real gold and silver anddiamonds while mine are all pretty much cos-tume jewelry.When I was little, my mom used to braidmy hair in pigtails. Some days she’d give me aponytail. But whatever hairstyle she gave me,she always used silk ribbons and cute barrettesand hair clips. My hair is still long and I lovestyling it in different ways. No short-and-sassyhairstyle for me! My hair reaches past myshoulders to the middle of my back and thecolor is chestnut brown, although sometimes,like during the summer, if I’m out in the sun fora long time, highlights will appear. My bestfriend, Caitlyn, is always telling me she wouldkill to have my hair. I don’t know what she’scomplaining about. Her hair is super curly and3a gorgeous red color. Not carrot red but a richauburn. Like in shampoo ads in magazines. Butshe hates the color and is always trying tostraighten the curls out of her hair.Caitlyn and I have been best friends sincekindergarten. On the first day of school, weboth brought our Cabbage Patch Kids toschool for show-and-tell. The dolls were identi-cal and we decided that they were long-lost sis-ters and it was up to us to make sure theystayed in touch.Caitlyn practically lives at my house andwhen we’re not hanging out together, we’reeither on the phone or instant messaging whenwe’re online. We tell each other everythingalthough there’s a secret I’ve been keepingfrom her.It’s not that I don’t want to tell her mysecret, but I can’t. I’ve been told that part of thejob I’ve just taken is keeping my identity asecret.I know this all sounds mysterious and con-fusing, but it really isn’t. And there’s a perfectlylogical explanation.4This September I’ll be a freshman at NorthMarshall High School and I’ve been picked toinherit the job of being the anonymous fresh-man advice columnist, Dear Daisy, for the highschool’s website. Daisy has been around forever.I think she was even giving out advice whenmy parents were both freshmen there! Beforewebsites existed, she had her own column inthe school’s newspaper. Every year a newfreshman takes over as Daisy, writing the col-umn and dispensing advice.Working on my junior high’s newspaper,writing and editing articles, is what got me thejob of Dear Daisy. I know the importance ofextracurricular activities. Colleges look for thatkind of stuff in addition to good grades, so it’snever too early to start participating.My guidance counselor, who I met when Iwent to pick up my class schedule in June, wasthe one who told me about the Dear Daisyposition. He thought I would be good at it, buthe also told me that there were five other girlswho were just as qualified as I was to take overthe column. If I was interested in becoming5Dear Daisy, then I’d have to submit a samplecolumn and after all the columns were com-pared, a decision would be made
The Think Big Manifesto: Think You Can't Change Your Life (and the World)? Think Again - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: One evening, years ago, I was brainstorming with someother business consultants. We were all throwing out ideasabout how we wanted to brand ourselves. When I was puton the spot, I said the first thing that came to my mind,“I’m the guy to call when you’re tired of thinking small.”The entire room became silent, until one of the womensaid, “Yes, that is so you!” Still, I immediately second-guessed myself, worrying that the tagline sounded toocheesy, stupid, arrogant, or worse, wasn’t true.Yet the more I floated the phrase to others, the morepositive the response was. “You make us feel capable ofdoing bigger things,” people said. “That’s why we hang10 | The Think Big Manifestoaround you.” I had never fully realized the impact I washaving on other people. It created a cycle of accountabil-ity. If they were relying on me to inspire them to thinkbigger, then I needed to keep on thinking bigger. Untilthen, I had always tried to think big in my life—not thatit wasn’t a challenge, not that sometimes I didn’t thinksmall. But if other people were looking to me for theirmotivation to think big, it made it all the more importantthat I keep working hard at thinking big in my own life.Because my big thinking wasn’t just about me, nor shouldit be. Thinking big is about me, you, and so many otherpeople—reaching out, inspiring and being inspired, andworking together to meet the challenges of our times, tomake change, and to create new opportunities.An important point — so I ’ll repeat it right away — is thatI do not think big every day. I can’t. It’s unlikely anyonecould live by this manifesto every moment. But I try.This is not just our manifesto, the manifesto of everyonewho is and wants to think big, it’s my personal mani-festo, too. I want to live by this every day. And althoughit’s unlikely I can live up to quite that standard everyminute, publishing this manifesto and leading the ThinkBig Revolution are ways to hold myself to the standardof thinking big. Just as important, or even more so, to
DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS OF WORLD WAR II - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: This is not a history of World War II , but revelations about many of thelesser-known details. Because it is a book of facts, you don't read itfrom beginning to end, but rather you jump in wherever it strikes yourfancy. There are over three hundred separate items, each a completestory in itself.As a rule, much of the information found in one section of the bookwill usually also be applicable to the others as well. After all, althoughaircraft carriers are inseparably associated with the Pacific war, theyalso performed yeoman service in the Atlantic and Mediterranean,while the problems of troop transport transcended theater.After reading this book, you'll never look at World War II the sameway again. We have not changed the story of that conflict; we areproviding information about it that is not generally known. We oftenlook at the same subject from several different angles, giving you abetter appreciation of, for example, how a blitzkrieg was conducted,what it took to supply partisans, and why the U.S. Army had moreships than the U.S. Navy.World War II was the most enormous human drama in history. Noone volume could ever really come close to examining all of theunusual, and often important, aspects of this, history's greatest war. Somuch has had to be left out, from the drama of Dunkirk to the U.S.Navy's coal-burning, paddle-wheel aircraft carriers on the Great Lakes;from the Marine Corps's Navaho communications specialists to the12 INTRODUCTIONJapanese Navy's "American" pilots; not to mention the improbableadventures of FDR's son, the extraordinary antiarmor tactics of theFinns, and the secret missions of Harry Hopkins. Also left out are manyinteresting items from the "secondary" theaters such as China, Burma,Finland, and the Middle East. Moreover, the end of the Cold War hasthrown open the Soviet World War II archives. Much fascinating ma-terial is coming out. We were shown a volume (in Russian) of some ofthe newly revealed material already being published in Russia andrealized that we could have added several dozen pages of previouslyunknown goodies for this book from that one Russian volume alone.Well, if we sell enough copies of this book, there may be more. Wecertainly have enough to fill several more volumes.This book undoubtedly displays an "American" bias. This is nat-ural, given the audience. Without much difficulty the authors couldproduce a book of similar length with a "British" or "German" or"Chinese" bias which, while being somewhat repetitive, would stillmanage to include a lot of unusual and interesting material. World War II was the most enormous human drama in history, and there is farmore to be told about it than can possibly be included between thecovers of a single book.
Retire Worry-Free: Money-Smart Ways to Build the Next Egg You'll Need - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Retirement is closer than you think.The clock is ticking. Each day, retirement gets closer. And as guaranteed benefits like social security and Medicare are being threatened and our life expectancies are growing longer, workers like you have more to worry about than before when building a nest egg for retirement.In Retire Worry-Free: Money-Smart Ways to Build the Nest Egg You Need, the editors of Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine explain how to calculate how much you will need, how much you can count on from Social Security and pensions, and, finally, how to fill the gap. Whether you’ll need thousands or hundreds of thousands to retire and maintain your current lifestyle, Retire Worry-Free will teach you how to: •Get the most from your pension and 401(k) •Decide between traditional and Roth IRAs •Maximize tax-favored savings plans if you’re self-employed •Handle early-retirement offers and lump-sum distributions to avoid pension-payout traps •Protect your nest egg with the right amounts and types of insurancePacked full of charts and tips, Retire Worry-Free is a must-have resource for anyone planning for their retirement.
Making Capitalism in China: The Taiwan Connection - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: ew generations ago, the very idea ofretirement was foreign to the vast ma-jority of Americans. Retirement wasfor the well-to-do. Most peopleworked until they couldn’t physically(or legally) work any longer. They lived a few moreyears in greatly reduced circumstances—often withtheir adult children—and then they died. Social secu-rity was in its infancy, and anyhow, it was just a mini-mal safety net for the last couple of years of life.Company-paid health insurance and pensions wereuncommon. Most people’s lifetime earnings didn’tallow for much retirement savings, and the elderlywere the poorest age group in America.In the last 30 years or so, all of this has been turnedtopsy-turvy by simultaneous revolutions in health care,employment rights, pensions and government policiesthat encourage tax-deferred saving. Today most work-ers are protected from mandatory retirement by theAge Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) thatcovers workplaces of more than 20 employees and mostoccupations other than some such as highly paid execu-tives in policy-making positions, tenured university fac-ulty, fire fighting and law-enforcement personnel.On the other hand, many people who saved aggres-sively while they were young are able to retire muchearlier than age 65.Today millions of elderly Americans now live com-fortably in retirement, with income from a combina-tion of social security, private pensions and their ownsavings. Many retirees have significant health carecoverage from their previous employees.ixIntroduction
Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It - Original PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: Every year, those who publish dictionaries are faced with a central question:which emerging words should be added to the new editions? Because somewords have longer life expectancies than others, these decisions are not takenlightly. To make it into a dictionary, a new word must not only show evidencethat it has been around a few years but also that it demonstrates some indicationof staying power. With these criteria in mind, the editors at Merriam-Websterhave chosen a number of new entries for the Merriam-Webster’s CollegiateDictionary, eleventh edition (2006). Recognizing that new words can tell us a bitabout our culture, here are five of my favorites:drama queen: noun, a person given to often excessively emotionalperformances or reactionsgastric bypass: noun, a surgical bypass operation that typicallyinvolves reducing the size of the stomach and reconnecting the smallerstomach to bypass the first portion of the small intestine so as torestrict food intake and reduce caloric absorption in cases of severeobesity
Building an Electronic Disease Register: Getting the Computer to Work for You (Primary Care Health Informatics) - PDF
نویسندگان: خلاصه: This book has two aims. The first is to demonstrate that computers can work foryou and not the other way around. No, please don't laugh ... it really is possible.Computers can play a major role in improving patient health and patient care.However, in order to achieve this, it is necessary to do a number of things:• computerise patient records• implement systems to process those records in accordance with best knownpractice and available evidence• change working practices and procedures• train staff to give them new skills• manage the process of change.Thus the second aim of the book is to show how to do these things in practice. Weshall use the example of an electronic coronary heart disease register (CHD) toshow how this may be achieved.We shall draw upon a case study from a local primary care group (PCG) wherewe shall consider the implementation in two practices, with different proprietarygeneral practice systems. We shall consider the example from the perspective of aGP and a practice manager.
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