... this role in the context of other influences and isolating the independent influence of culture is challenging. Treatments of the role of culture in economic prosperity tend to focus on generic cultural attributes that are deemed desirable, such as hard work, initiative, belief in the value of education, as well as factors drawn from macroeconomics, such as a propensity to save and ... invest. These are surely relevant to prosperity, but none of these generic attributes are unambiguously correlated with economic progress." It is undeniable that culture plays a key role not just in how p...

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... Bell of Colorado told CNN reporter Halimah Addullah "It's insulting when they say we are going to disenfranchise the Hispanics as if we are not capable of getting a voter card"(Abduulah). Jeff Rodriguez, another Latino voter from Colorado, states in the same CNN article, "I get carded to purchase spray paint at Home Depot, antihistamines or over-the-counter ... of the population - do not have government ID cards. Many of them are poor, or elderly, or black and Hispanic and could have a hard time navigating the bureaucracy to get a card." The article also sites a study from the Brennan C...

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... already had some type of legislature in place, and wanted to make the policies stricter, in most cases requiring a form of identification with a photo of the voter, or an ID card or driver's license issued by the state. Most of these states seemed to be in a rush to enact voter ID laws before the 2012 election in which the democratic candidate ... ...

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... in need of financial aid in the wake of the devastation brought on by the effects of the second world war. The United States used this angle as their "trump card- to pressure de Gasperi into weeding out leftist opposition in his cabinet. The withholding of United States aid and the cancellation of one billion dollars worth of debt owed to ... ...

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