Education Association--were private-sector unions. However, by 2007, most of the biggest unions were public-sector union. Second, both the biggest union in 2007 (the NEA) and the fifth-biggest union in 2007 (the UFCW) were substantially larger than the first- and fifth-biggest unions in 1974. This trend has shifted as we see almost no private sector unions, and the ones in the public sector constantly under attack. Throughout this paper, I will argue for the need for public sector employees to be allowed
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bring himself up again, and in 1834 Lincoln ran for state legislature, and in a few years he learned everything to become a lawyer and took an oath to the Illinois state bar. His life changed after that, and had many opportunities, even to run for governor of Illinois, but he declined it. Then in 1839 when he was at a cotillion in Springfield, he met the love of his life Mary Todd. She was from Lexington, Kentucky but from an upper class background. They were from different worlds, but they managed
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Johnson knows he will not be received very well in Texas as he has lost most of his clout in his home state. Johnson knows once Kennedy see his lack of help in Texas this will further erode any chance he has of being on the next campaign. Also Texas governor John Connally is not going to be much help as he is not a fan of the Kennedys. He knows that any appearance in public with the President will hurt him with Texas voters. Kennedy however needs Texas and the money it can bring to his campaign. He
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Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 4, Number 19, May 10, 1977 ENERGY Watergate In A New Persp-ective Richard Nixon/s Energy Policy To convince especially Republicans to rally behind the tion spokesmen and press conduits are claiming that Car ter's program is really "a more developed version" of Nixon's energy policies. The key difference now, goes the Carter Administration's anti-energy policy, Administra Nixon officially ended the method of market demand pro rating of the federal
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Americans paused a few months ago to mark the fiftieth anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination and to reflect upon the meaning of the event for the 1960s and the post-Vietnam era in general. Everyone agreed that it was a signal event that changed the trajectory of national politics. Yet there was little agreement as to how it did so and how, fifty years later, Kennedy's death should be interpreted or understood. Judging by the anniversary ceremonies, the passage of five decades has not dimmed
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(or the Triffin paradox) is a theory that when a national currency also serves as an international reserve currency, there could be conflicts of interest between short-term domestic and long-term international economic objectives. This dilemma was first identified by Belgian-American economist Robert Triffin in the 1960s, who pointed out that the country whose currency foreign nations wish to hold (the global reserve currency) must be willing to supply the world with an extra supply of its currency
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time in history in which nine African American students were prevented from attending Little Rock Central High School, located in the southern state of Arkansas. This also took place during the Civil Rights Movement. The Little Rock Nine were the first African American students to desegregate Little Rock Central High School. The nine students were: Minnijean Brown Trickey, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Thelma Mothershed Wair, Melba Patillo Beals, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Terrance Roberts, Jefferson
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Highlights: * The joint session of the Philippine Senate and House of Representatives has been called to order at exactly 4pm. * President Aquino started to deliver this 4th SONA at 4:03 pm. * Aquino said it’s his fourth SONA, 2 more remaining. He said he is aware of the challenges facing his leadership. * The President hailed domination of Team PNoy senatorial bets in the 2013 elections. * He cited the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) and increase in number of TESDA
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES TWO DECADES OF JAPANESE MONETARY POLICY AND THE DEFLATION PROBLEM Takatoshi Ito Frederic S. Mishkin Working Paper 10878 http://www.nber.org/papers/w10878 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 October 2004 This paper is written for the NBER 15th East Asian Seminar on Economics, June 25-27, 2004. The authors are grateful to Takeshi Kudo and Emilia Simeonova for their excellent research assistance. We also thank our discussants
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vice president to Roosevelt was elected officially in 1948, Born in Missouri in the late 19th century he had been brought up in an area that saw racism towards coloured people as a natural occurrence, and this was also the case for Truman. Truman had first encountered blacks as family servants with his ancestors previously owning slaves. Truman had told his sweet heart Bess that: “One man is as good as another, “So long as he is honest, decent and not a Nigger or a Chinaman”. (Sanders, 2003, p60) So
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