Presidency of Bill Clinton

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    Lady of the United States, United States Senator, and Secretary of State are some of the titles that have been attached to Mrs. Clinton over the years. However, after her defeat in the 2008 Democratic Party primary to political neophyte and eventual President, Barack Obama many believed that the curtain had come down on her political career. Nevertheless, Hillary Clinton with such tenacity told us to never count her out. Before the election had started, there were calls from all around the…

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    given per year, therefore not all victims are guaranteed to receive one (Department of Homeland Security, 2014). Social Policy Critique The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000 was signed into law on October 28, 2000 by President Bill Clinton in an effort to fight against trafficking in persons, of all types; forced enslavement and slavery, the sex trade,. The act is in place to assist in the re-implementation of particular Federal programs to assist in prohibiting violence…

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    Background: Previous Program Evaluation Paths The Clinton Administration acknowledged that agencies and departments were inefficient and lacked oversight of outcomes. The administration consequently passed the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 (GRPA 93), giving government officials a tool to begin to properly manage outcome assessment of programs. The Act called for all federal agencies to develop five-year strategic plans with long-term goals. The agencies had to submit annual…

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    The Clinton (Democrat) administration’s military intervention foreign policy is in the ‘half-out’ category due to Clinton’s policies of “hegemony on the cheap” (“The Quiet Clinton Era of the 1990s: A Liberal Internationalist Strategy for Unipolarity?”) which emphasized multilateralism and avoided conflicts in which the U.S. had little to no interests, but wanted to “preserve an American-centered order” (“The Quiet Clinton Era”). Clinton wanted to maintain the status quo of the American unipolar…

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    Enacted in 1933 by the Clinton administration, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides unpaid time off to assist employees in balancing work and family life. The act supplies up to a total of twelve weeks of unpaid leave during any twelve month period to specific employees. While the establishment of the act has helped some employees balance the demands of work and family, a recent increase of family-leave lawsuits in our country have demonstrated the FMLA’s need for improvement.…

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    research for a bill that I agree with and a bill that I do not agree with I started getting overwhelmed. I could not believe the amount of bills that need to be reviewed for such a short legislative session. I just just started looking at the bills by subject instead of trying to go through each bill to determine my choices. This task still proved daunting because some of the bills actually had duplicates filled by different legislatures that read exactly the same. But, I did find one bill that…

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    It begins with clips of young children stating their hopes and dreams, played over an inspiring musical composition; subsequently. Clinton makes his first appearance, speaking to a family, while an announcer explains the candidate’s focus on creating opportunity for youth by passing pro-education legislation, including a $1,500 tax credit in addition to a $10,000 tuition tax deductible…

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    The 2016 presidential election came down to a race between democratic Hillary Clinton and republican Donald Trump. Clinton was born on October 26, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois. She served as the 67th Secretary of State. Hillary is married to the former United States President Bill Clinton and they have one daughter, Chelsea Clinton. Trump was born on June 19, 1946 in Queens, New York City. He was a businessman, owning The Trump Organization. He is currently married to Melania Trump. His…

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    High college tuition is a dilemma for those with the strive for higher education but they are unable to afford the costs of it. This leaves many people working with only minimum wage jobs, which is also a struggle for them especially if they have bills to pay and a family to support. In addition to this, it is very complex to live off of minimum wage for one’s entire life in today’s economy. Every year, inflation is constantly on the rise. This concept makes it more difficult to afford the…

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    The reminiscence bump: why America's greatest year was probably when you were young Guardian's news covers Taylor, Garry and Burton-Wood's research from 2017.During his campaign, Donald Trump had promised American citizens to make America great again. But in which year America was great? How do people decide which year was the greatest? Taylor and his colleagues investigated these questions by taking into consideration the literature on the reminiscence bump. In his interview with New York…

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