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	Social issues - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Social issues are matters that can be explained only by factors outside an individual’s control and immediate social environment which affect many individuals in a society.
		For example, a serial murderer who wreaks havoc in an area for a number of months or years is certainly a problem, but this is not a social issue; it is part of the larger social issue of crime.
		Common social issues include poverty, violence, justice, human rights (suppression of), equality (or discrimination), and crime, and usually revolve around conflicting viewpoints and tensions between people who take different stances.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_issues (158 words)

	The Journal of Social Issues
		An Issue Editor (or set of editors), who is knowledgeable on that topic, plans and develops each issue, solicits contributors, and submits a formal proposal.
		In general, the issue should move from a theoretical perspective on the topic to examples of research findings and applications, and end with a discussion of policy or practice implications.
		Issue Editors should attempt to draw their authors from more than one discipline and to represent a sampling of perspectives different from their own.
	www.spssi.org /jsi_guide.html (1353 words)

	Social Issues May 2005
		Social issue Liberals are defined as pro-choice and opposed to a federal marriage amendment.
		Though the majority of social issue Conservatives are Republicans (61%), it is important to remember that this is not a strictly partisan label, and almost one-in-four Democrats align themselves with socially Conservative viewpoints.
		When asked to rate the importance of 11 issues using a seven-point scale, with seven “very important” and one “not at all important,” the issues at the top of social issue Conservatives' list were taxes, health care and education.
	moore-info.com /SocialIssuesMay2005.htm (849 words)

	Issue Update: Social Security
		Social Security is funded by the payroll taxes of current workers to pay the benefits of current retirees.
		Social Security was never meant to be a fully funded pension program, nor does it contain genuine assets.
		Every year that we allow Social Security’s long-term fiscal imbalance to go unaddressed, we leave $600 billion in debt for future generations.
	www.house.gov /ryan/issuepapers/socialsecurityissuepaper.html (1413 words)

	Journal of Social Work Values and Ethics - Undergraduate Views of Capital Punishment: Are Social Work Students ...
		Social work believes that people have ability to change, because an individual's behavior affects and is affected by his or her social environment.
		When social work students were included in a study on the attitudes of the death penalty, they were mixed in with other majors and no detailed information was given about social work students as a group (e.g., Maxwell and Rivera-Vazquez, 1998).
		Among social work majors, 3% indicated that they were strongly in favor of the death penalty, 6% were strongly in favor, 26% were somewhat in favor, 14% were uncertain, 14% were somewhat opposed, 15% were strongly opposed, and 21% were very strongly opposed.
	www.socialworker.com /jswve/content/view/20 (5733 words)

	Social Security Issue Guide: Frequently Asked Questions
		Social Security provides retirement benefits to workers, their spouses, and their dependents, survivorship benefits to family members of workers who have died, and disability benefits to workers who become disabled before retirement.
		Social Security would replace 57% of the average annual earnings of a low-earning worker (who earned 50% of the average earnings), and 38% of the average annual earnings of a high-earnings worker (who earned 50% more than average).
		Social Security is a successful government program that is not facing an immediate crisis or an explosion of costs that put an unbearable burden on society.
	www.epinet.org /content.cfm/issueguide_socialsecurityfaq (1366 words)

	Social Security
		AAUW is committed to a Social Security system that provides lifelong protections for women and families that include guaranteed benefits with cost-of-living adjustments.
		Social Security provides lifelong family protections - For a young family, Social Security provides the equivalent of a $400,000 life insurance policy and a $350,000 disability insurance policy.
		Social Security benefits are the only source of income for many elderly women and persons with disabilities.
	www.aauw.org /issue_advocacy/actionpages/socialsecurity.cfm (297 words)

	Senator Kent Conrad - Social Security (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Social Security is particularly important in North Dakota, which has one of the highest rates of beneficiaries on a per capita basis, and where almost a quarter of beneficiaries are 80 years of age or older.
		The Social Security program is financed with the payroll tax contributions of current workers, which are used to pay the Social Security benefits of current beneficiaries.
		Senator Conrad calls for investing Social Security surplus instead of allowing the surplus to be spent and replaced by IOUs -- creating a "revenue gap" that contributes to the growing challenge of financing retirement and disability benefits.
	conrad.senate.gov /issues/socialsecurity.html (1825 words)

	Social Issues - Free Discussion of all the major issues of elections and society
		In addition to providing news on social issues we are compiling the nation's most extensive database of community based coalitions, active citizen groups and advocacy outreach organizations.
		Whether your aim is to advance new social theories or to identify serious issues and analyze them, we encourage your taking a role and becoming a member of the Social Issues family.
		In an election year when issues of workers' rights and the environment are likely to be highlighted, some big-brand companies are increasingly mindful of how they're perceived on the social responsibility scale.
	www.socialissues.com (1082 words)

	ELCA Advocacy [Social Security]
		It is the birthright of each person to live a life with dignity and with access to the basic necessities of life.
		Care must be given to assure that segments of the population are not systematically disadvantaged due to gender, race, or marital status.
		Social Security is intended to be the third leg of a three-legged stool, the other two legs being personal savings and employer-provided pensions.
	www.elca.org /advocacy/issues/socialsecurity/05-04-26-preserve.html (720 words)

	U.S. Representative Tom Allen Addresses Social Security Issue at
		Social Security is the basic retirement plan provided by the government, established in the 1930s by the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
		It is predicated on starting the issue with the pronoun I' or We' which reflects the speaker's point of view.
		"Social Security represents a social contract the people have with their government, not to be used for other issues," said Conant.
	boothbayregister.maine.com /2005-04-07/social_security_issue.html (1318 words)

	Social Capitalists: What Makes a Social Capitalist?
		First, we examine the rigor and sophistication of the organization’s approach to social change: its understanding of the problem it is trying to address and the solution it is providing, and whether its performance metrics are tightly aligned with the problem it is addressing.
		At the highest level, a Social Capitalist winner is not a one-hit-wonder of innovation, nor does it endlessly pursue new ideas without significant results; it systematically and strategically uses innovation to maximize its social impact against its targeted problem.
		In addition, we prioritized partnerships that created innovative solutions to the social issue or created innovative partnership arrangements (Innovation), which allowed the partnership to be more successful that it would have been otherwise.
	www.fastcompany.com /social/2007/method/index.html (1649 words)

	U.S. SENATOR BARBARA BOXER \| Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Because, his initiative is not about meeting the challenges of Social Security to keep it sound; it is not about bringing together Democrats and Republicans as Ronald Reagan did to ensure that full benefits will be there for all Americans.
		You can count on Social Security, and with every fiber of my being, I will make sure it is there not only for my generation, but for my children's generation and for my grandchild's generation.
		Because Social Security is much more than a retirement plan, widows and orphans and disabled workers will be in an economic free fall.
	boxer.senate.gov /issues/socsec.cfm (2003 words)

	LULAC :: Policy : Social Security - FAQ
		At the very least, the question of Social Security is a complicated issue in part because of its intergenerational equity aspects and financial formulas seeking balance between future social security benefit commitments and payroll taxes, and total projected federal expenditures and taxes.
		This is not the first time that the issue of the fund’s solvency has been discussed given the aging “baby boom generation” that is rapidly approaching retirement and the decrease of the number of overall workers contributing to the pool.
		Judging from the current rates of Latino retirees dependent on Social Security and the rate of poverty among our older Latinos, a plan is needed to increase our retirement funds, not an elimination of our safety-net which is part of the social contract that we have with the nation.
	www.lulac.org /advocacy/issues/socialsecurity/faq.html (836 words)

	Social Edge - Skoll Foundation
		Skoll Social Entrepreneurs are innovators who have achieved proof of concept, are poised to replicate or scale up toward systemic social change, and have a message that will resonate with those whose resources are crucial to advancing large-scale, long-term solutions.
		These awards support social entrepreneurs who have applied a specific innovation to a social issue (environmental sustainability, health, tolerance and human rights, institutional social responsibility, economic and social equity, peace and security), demonstrated proof of concept for that innovation, and are ready to take it to scale.
		A number of Skoll social entrepreneurs who are working in education, healthcare, microfinance, etc. have shared with us their belief that their innovations can cross sectors -- and that is part of the inspiration behind our efforts to connect and celebrate social entrepreneurs -- to foment this cross-fertilization.
	www.socialedge.org /?50@hostFile@.3c43ff8e (4661 words)

	Congressman Maurice Hinchey :: Representing the 22nd District of New York :: Social Security
		Social Security is a safety net for retirees, disabled workers, and survivors, and it is the only system that provides guaranteed benefits to workers.
		Social Security provides the majority of income for 6 out of 10 seniors, and it is the only source of income for 20 percent of elderly Americans.
		Social Security does face long-term challenges that need to be addressed, and these can be fixed with modest changes to the system.
	www.house.gov /hinchey/issues/socialsecurity.shtml (552 words)

	Introduction - Celebrate Social Work Month – March 2006
		This year, we are turning our focus to an individual issue that affects social workers and their clients – Aging.
		Social Work Month is an opportunity to promote the emerging issue of aging in our practice and in our profession.
		While promoting the social work role in aging is important this month, Social Work Month is also an opportunity to generally promote the profession with new tools offered through the National Social Work Public Education Campaign.
	www.socialworkers.org /pressroom/swm2006/default.asp (310 words)

	Social Security Issue Guide
		The Social Security system provides three distinct types of benefits for workers and their families: lifetime retirement benefits for retirees who have worked at least ten years, their spouses, and their children; disability insurance for workers, their spouses, and their children; and survivors' insurance for the families of deceased workers.
		Social Security benefits are part of a social insurance program and its benefits are distinct from employer-provided pensions, Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs), or other forms of savings.
		Despite the fact that the Social Security trust fund is as robust today as it has been in recent years, the administration proposes to radically change the Social Security program by cutting benefits while at the same time allowing workers to create individual private accounts.
	www.epi.org /content.cfm/issueguide_socialsecurity (2410 words)

	Mending Social Security's Flaws
		And because none of our Social Security taxes can be saved for us by the federal government in an account, PRAs would allow workers to have real ownership of a portion of their Social Security contribution.
		By having the choice to divert a portion of their Social Security taxes into a personally owned PRA, today's workers would maintain the financial safety net of the current program and have additional funds to assure a more comfortable retirement.
		While their survivors, if they have any, may be eligible for Social Security's survivors program, it is just as likely that the money that the deceased paid into the system will be gone forever.
	www.socialsecurity.org /pubs/articles/tp-01-20-04.html (721 words)

	Property Rights: The Hidden Issue of Social Security Reform
		One of the most enduring myths of Social Security is that a worker has a legal right to his Social Security benefits.
		Moreover, because Social Security benefits are not a worker’s property, they are not inheritable.
		In contrast, a privatized Social Security system, based on individual accounts, would provide workers with the benefits and the safeguards of true ownership.
	www.socialsecurity.org /pubs/ssps/ssp-19es.html (297 words)

	Social Edge - Draper Richards Foundation
		Experienced, dedicated social entrepreneurs with a developed idea for a non-profit organization in the United States are invited to apply for the Draper Richards Fellowship.
		We get, in other words, social investors skilled at "investing in the movie industry." We run the risk, therefore, of getting a social sector that is efficient but lacks the risk-taking and mentoring needed to foster breakthrough social innovation.
		Social Entrepreneurs use any means necessary to achieve their mission and reach a wider audience.
	www.socialedge.org /?14@17.uiAKaA8xduw.11408@.3c4210a0/11 (4702 words)

	Online NewsHour: Fixing Social Security Financing -- December 16, 2004
		Professor, earlier today the president said the first issue is to explain to Congress and the American people the size of the problem.
		There's another step we have to take, there's another whole round of issues that need to be resolved with Social Security, another round generally on the same order of magnitude as were made back in 1983.
		First, you need to understand that the way Social Security benefits are calculated, they are indexed twice, every year for people who are receiving their benefits they grow with inflation so that inflationary costs are covered.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/social_security/july-dec04/fix_12-16.html (2264 words)

	BSR » Business for Social Responsibility
		These 53 Issue Briefs are grouped into primary topic areas -- business ethics; community investment; environment; general CSR; governance and accountability; human rights; marketplace; and workplace -- and in total provide a framework for understanding the most common CSR issues facing companies today.
		As such each paper provide an overview of the topic and is divided into sections covering business benefits, key developments, external standards, implementation steps, leadership examples, sample polices, awards and recognition programs, and links to relevant resources.
		Updates and maintenance of the BSR Issue Brief library have been made possible by generous grant support from the Evelyn and Walter Haas, Jr.
	www.bsr.org /CSRResources/IssueBriefsList.cfm?area=all (154 words)

	Social Issues - Homework Center - Multnomah County Library
		The International Center for Alcohol Policies presents an overview of the drinking age issue, from what the debate is to international approaches to the topic.
		This website from the US Department of Labor presents an overview of child labor issues, and suggested codes of conduct to be implemented.
		This DEA publication presents medical and scientific evidence, political, social and cultural issues around this subject.
	www.multcolib.org /homework/sochc.html (4020 words)

	SAPL: Websites - Social Issues
		Multnomah County Library Homework Center Social Issues Links - A selection of links geared towards middle school and high school students needing multiple perspectives on legislative and social issues, these sites provide useful information for the general user, as well.
		Policy News and Information Center - This site features an issue of the week and an issues library that includes topics such as civil rights, crime, welfare and housing, and immigration.
		Texas Low Income Housing Information Service - Tenant issues, Texas housing policies, the availability of low-income housing in Texas and how to obtain it are among the topic links from this organization.
	www.sanantonio.gov /library/web/socialissues.asp (3405 words)

	ALA \| Online Social Networks
		We believe the legislation will now go to the Senate, which may or may not have time to vote on this before their session ends for the year.
		MySpace is not supposed to be a gated community—at least in that sense.
		Social networking, blogs and other web 2.0 services are going to become key components of business some day.
	www.ala.org /ala/oif/ifissues/onlinesocialnetworks.htm (1130 words)

	Social Action:Jewish Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But at this time in my life, gay and lesbian rights are more a fact of life than an issue to be debated.
		I am surprised to learn how many rabbis have not made this an issue in their congregations, but would be willing to learn and do more.
		Copies of this issue can be ordered at www.shalomctr.org.
	www.socialaction.com /underhuppah.html (1012 words)

	Social Emotional Learning Descriptors - Stage E
		Analyze the various points of view expressed on an historical, political, or social issue.
		Describe the basic rights of all individuals regardless of their social or cultural affiliations.
		Develop a plan with your classmates to address a community issue or need.
	www.isbe.state.il.us /ils/social_emotional/stage_E/descriptor.htm (690 words)

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