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Executive Summary Over the past half-century, the American union movement has moved into government. Despite highly publicized efforts to curtail collective bargaining powers of government unions in Ohio and Wisconsin, almost all changes to government collective bargaining statutes over the past 20 years have increased, not decreased, the powers enjoyed by government unions.

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is characterized by a cluster of signs of metabolic disturbance and has caused a huge burden on the health system. The study aims to explore the prevalence and characteristics of MetS defined by different criteria in the Chinese population. Using the data of the China Hypertension Survey (CHS), a nationally representative cross-sectional study from October 2012 to December 2015, a total of 28,717 participants aged 35 years and above were included in the analysi...

Federal, state, and local policy mistakes unnecessarily increase the cost of living for the average American household by $4,440 per year.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, known as AMLO, was elected president of Mexico on July 1 with the highest majority in Mexico’s history. His election also marks the first time that a third-party candidate won the presidency since Mexico first held elections in 1917. Similar to President Donald Trump, López Obrador campaigned on changing the political status quo. On December 1, he will assume the presidency, and his party MORENA and its coalition allies, the Workers Party (PT) and Social Encount...

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 was the most comprehensive update to the federal tax code in more than 30 years. Although the primary goal of the reform was economic growth and job creation, an important secondary goal was making the federal tax code more neutral toward state tax policy.

The current EITC and ACTC programs must be reformed to eliminate wasteful spending, extensive fraud, and marriage penalties.

This paper examines the distribution of government, benefits, services and taxes by income class.

A recent virological study published in the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal identified the novel influenza A virus (H3N8) in live poultry in Hong Kong, genetically similar to the zoonotic H3N8 viruses reported in mainland China with its origin akin to H5N1, H5N6, H10N8, and H7N9 viruses.

Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), an infectious disease caused by an enveloped RNA beta coronavirus, has become a pandemic, with a mortality rate ranging from 0.7% to 10.8%. Although older adults with comorbidity are more likely to suffer severe disease and eventual mortality, diabetes mellitus (DM) is one of the most frequently reported noncommunicable diseases shown to predict poor prognosis in COVID-19 patients. Aim: To determine the knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) ...

Report explaining how the Prison Litigation Reform Act has made civil rights cases from incarcerated people harder to bring, harder to win, and harder to settle.