The first, and clearest, indication of a drastic change of policy was the Spanish-American War. ... Such a policy would not be applicable in an imperialist system. ... McKinley's "Open Door" policy, the attempt to protect fair trade in China, was in itself a departure from America's previous neutrality policy, although it is arguable whether this is significant after the Spanish-American War itself. ... The direct descendant of the Roosevelt Corollary and "Big Stick" policy was the "Dollar Diplomacy" of William Taft. ... Taft attempted to increase American investment in Latin America...

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The issue may arise because the child does not have insurance and the only hospital that can provide this procedure is a private for-profit hospital that will not accept uninsured individuals without upfront payment. ... The future of health care and human services is sure to lead to policy struggles, increased technology and privacy laws and the need for advocates to fight for the rights of those in need. ... This course helped me to realize the ways that social policy and government regulations impact health care and human services. I have worked in health care for several years now but ne...

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The policies of many companies do not support to give benefits to spouses of same gender couples. ... ("Domestic-) Domestic partners should get all the benefits they qualify for such as "health, dental and vision insurance, sick and bereavement leave, accident and life insurance, death benefits, parental leave, housing rights and tuition- ("Domestic-). ...

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In the Weimar Republic moderate parties such as the Liberals and Conservatives failed to introduce new policies, which lead to extremist parties winning over the peoples vote. ... The coalition of the Farmers" Party and the Social Democrats achieved this by introducing a number of policies, for example, regulating the working hours of agricultural workers and unemployment insurance. ...

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How will our national housing policy adapt to the senior boom? ... Government policies should encourage private sector investments in products and services to help the needs of the aging baby boomers and reflect the diversity in lifestyle, race and income of the future senior citizens. ...

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Everything revolves around males, therefore all policies and practices fit men's criteria and not women. ... Pregnancy was taking off the disability-insurance package because it is "unique to woman," but prostate cancer, which only men can get, is included in the package. ...

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Progressives also pushed for public accident insurance plans, which would provide accident victims and their families with a monetary payment to offset expenses. Such plans were enacted beginning in 1910 and a policy in all states but five by 1920. ...

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Some of the jobs that women are able to obtain are personnel managers, actuarial, insurance and pension managers, and marketing managers. ... To these gentlemen, women are simply not seen as policy makers. ...

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They were severely mentally ill, for instance, or end-of-the-line substance abusers-people incapable of caring for themselves, unable to keep themselves housed, and newly visible because of drastic changes in policies that had previously kept them institutionalized in hospitals or jails. ... There seems to be an economic path to homelessness, through rent hikes beyond incomes, unemployment, low wages, or some combination thereof (Loveland 241) The electoral emergence of the New Right in the 1980s under the governments of Margaret Thatcher in Great Britain and Ronald Reagan in the United Stat...

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"The Social Security Act of 1935 created America's first national system of old-age pensions, though one that was based on regressive taxation and left out too many at the bottom of the economic pyramid, and it initiated a federal-state program of unemployment insurance."... In order to boost the economy, power was readily and radically centralized, and the government introduced the policies of cost plus, resource allocation, wage & price controls, and prohibition of strikes. ...

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Hacker and Pierson express that financial insurance, a new tax policy, a  Reserve and responsive middle class, distribution of wealth ,and Security for middle class are all solutions for destroying the winner-takes all economy. ...

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According to the book Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action, a social problem is be defined as "a social condition that has negative consequences for individuals, our social world, or our physical world" (Leon-Guerrero, 2015). ...

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Over the past ten to twenty years a big issue has been made over a personright to commit suicide or not. The American courts have had to deal with everything from assisted suicides to planned suicides, and whether the constitution gives the American people the right to take their own lives or whethe...

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One of the most cherished rights of Americans would be the right to privacy, yet many working class Americans, unfortunately, have been subject to their rights being disrupted and their privacy being invaded at their workplace. One major issue that has existed and still exists in the workforce of America is civil liberties violations. According to her book Nickel and Dimed: On not getting by in America, Barbara Ehrenreich writes that "What surprised and offended me the most about the low-wage workplace was the extent to which one is required to surrender one's basic civil rights and-...

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