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the most famous environmental disasters that happened at the Love Canal, a popular tourist attraction in the late 1970s. In this mini case study paper, the background of Love Canal, the main issue caused this tragedy, the actions taken by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) along with the outcomes, and the resulting effects on the health of the population exposed at Love Canal and the tragedy will be mainly discussed. In 1978, Love Canal near Niagara Falls in upstate New York…

mistakes notwithstanding. In founding the United States, the pioneering leaders sought to rectify the tyrannical practices which compelled them to seek…

High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget, written by David Wessel, provides a readable format for readers with or without specific financial background to briefly understand the whole picture of the federal budget. The book consists of five chapters. In the first chapter, Wessel began with, as a reporter, a scene that the president was about to give a speech on federal budget for next fiscal year, guiding readers to understanding the real issues about federal budget the U.S. government…

year pales in comparison to the 8-12 years in U.S. state or federal courts. If the consequences do not deter criminal action, violence against indigenous women will continue - fostering itself into a vicious cycle of abuse against women, while perpetrators run free. Furthermore, jurisdictional issues complicate the process of investigating and prosecuting these crimes. The current system involves varying authorities between tribal, state, and federal governments. Because of jurisdictional…

by their ownership, whether they are teaching ones with academic affiliations or the scope of service they provide. The most common types of hospitals are community hospitals and Public hospitals. Community hospitals are the most common in the United States and they are typically small to the extent of housing 50-100 beds. They normally provide care for routine medical and surgical problems and some are located in the suburbs while others in the cities. The small hospitals have been mostly…

gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/150_5100_19d.pdf Grant Assurance 27, Use by Government Aircraft Grant Assurance 27 requires a Sponsor to make the airport facilities funded with AIP grants and the aircraft operations area (AOA) available to federal government aircraft at no charge, unless the government aircraft use is substantial. If there is substantial use, the Sponsor may charge a reasonable share, proportional to the government’s use, of the O & M costs of the AOA and other…

178-page budget summary obtained by the Post from the former NSA contractor, Edward Snowden, detailing that the NIP budget covers 16 different intelligence agencies that make up the US Intelligence community, which has 107,035 employees. “The United States has made a considerable investment in the Intelligence Community since the terror attacks of 9/11, a time which includes wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Spring, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction technology, and asymmetric…

Medicare and Medicaid programs(Ferenc,2009). CMS became involved with the health care industry to separate obligations among the Center for Beneficiary Choices, Center for Medicaid Management, and the Center for Medicaid and States. And CMS must also respond to beneficiaries and taxpayers; what's more, CMS must confront the issues of a variety of political constituents, which include presidential organizations, congress, and groups…

The budget process for the City of Lakeland is vital to our citizens, the services that are provided and the departments that provide those services. It is the City of Lakeland’s goal to provide a performance budgeting process that is clear, concise and priority-driven. To that end, I would like to propose a budget process that will begin with a Strategic Plan of action and culminate in a balanced budget that will help the City of Lakeland achieve its operational goals. Budget development would…

Social insurance are programs that are funded by the payroll taxes. Public assistance programs are funded by the government and include anything that assists the health, public, and education. Both social insurance programs and public assistance programs are made to help the needy. One social insurance program would be Medicare, it is for people that are sixty-five and up who have not claimed their social security benefits. It is also for people who have kidney failure and people who have…