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	Social issues in Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Germany has continued to struggle with "far-right violence" or "neo-nazis" which are presently on the rise.
		Germany has one of the lowest birthrates in Europe and it is in continued decline.
		Germany has always been and still is a society with a considerable rate of immigration.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_issues_in_Germany (1196 words)

	Social issues in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Social issues in the United States as perceived by social justice advocates and other groups and commentators include an "unequal" educational system, poverty, high rates of crime and incarceration, and lack of access to quality health care.
		These issues continue to exist in the United States despite the creation of one of the strongest economic systems in history, although in a way different to many other developed countries.
		Although some funding does come from the federal government, it is almost entirely funded and controlled individually by state and local governments, and school districts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Social_issues_in_the_United_States (1122 words)

	Germany - dKosopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Geographically, Germany is very diverse, ranging from high-altitude Alpine territories to the lowlands of the Rhine basin to the floodplains of the upper Danube and the Elbe rivers.
		Germany lost World War I and as a result was made subject to the harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles in 1919.
		Currently, Germany is challenged by a number of social issues, including an increasingly costly pension and healthcare plan for the elderly and domestic unease over immigration from Turkey, the Middle East and Africa.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/Germany (1029 words)

	AllRefer.com - Germany - Current Social Welfare Issues and Outlook for the Future - National Health Insurance and ...
		And in 1995, in a united Germany, the recipients of social assistance included a growing number of impoverished eld erly women, female-headed single households, and families with several children.
		From the perspective of individuals, unification brought a number of social and institutional innovations and improvements in living conditions, along with a few new entitlements--for example, disab ility pay, retirement for men under the age of sixty-five, and pensions for widows and widowers.
		Germany's health care system provides its residents with nearly universal access to comprehensive high-quality medical care and a choice of physicians.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/germany/germany80.html (1074 words)

	Social Blitzkrieg in Germany
		Together with the introduction of Hartz IV, public and social service providers, as well as charitable organizations and churches, were granted the possibility of employing ALG II receivers, for a period of 6 to 9 months for a salary of 1 euro/hour.
		Their unmistakable outflanking in recent social upheavals is grounded on their incapacity to counter the parallel dismantling of the welfare state and labour laws led by a social-democratic government, as well as the combined threat of delocalization and massive layoffs.
		Because of the multiplicity of governmental coalitions in Germany (or the fact that, basically, all parties have their finger prints on a university reform programme, in one Land or another), the strike was led against all parties of the German political scene.
	www.labornet.org /news/0605/blitz.htm (9195 words)

	EKD: Protestant Church in Germany - - Key social policy issues of millennium policy
		Therefore, reducing poverty, promoting education and overcoming discrimination have to be accompanied by an extension of the state’s organisational competence in social and economic matters.
		Justice issues are largely sidelined in efforts to cope with the poverty issue.
		This responsibility has to reflect the insight that the provision of water under socially acceptable conditions has to take priority over the regulatory policy goal of solving difficulties in supply primarily through privatisation strategies: Participatory approaches to the use of water should be supported in the interest of empowering the disadvantaged groups.
	www.ekd.de /print.php?file=/english/ekd_text81_05.html (1646 words)

	NCPA - International Issues - Germany Faces Social Benefit Crisis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Just as with the U.S. Social Security system, pensions for Germany's old folks are paid for by younger workers -- and the young are coming to believe their parents' generation is exploiting them.
		Typically, Germans are obliged to contribute one-fifth of their gross salaries to the state pension fund, with the employer matching one-half of the employees' contributions.
		In Germany, 15.3 percent of the population is 65 or older, and the number of retirees on pensions grew by 1.2 million between 1993 and 1995 -- to some 16.8 million, more than one-fifth of the population.
	www.ncpa.org /pd/pdint143.html (406 words)

	Social Security « Economic « Issues « Society
		Social Security Choice and Reform - Cato Institute project promotes privatization of Social Security and presents benefits of moving Social Security funds into private accounts.
		A 12-Step Plan for Social Security Reform - Report by the National Center for Policy Analysis published in June 1998 describes a plan for U.S. Social Security reform, based on examples of recent similar reforms in countries around the world.
		Social Security for Women - Social Security is more important for women than for men.
	www.localadsearch.com /Society/Issues/Economic/Social_Security (1807 words)

	Germany - Social Democratic Party
		Founded in 1875, the Social Democratic Party of Germany (Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands--SPD) is Germany's oldest political party and its largest in terms of membership.
		The party is split into two factions, one giving priority to economic and social justice, egalitarianism, and environmental protection, and the other most concerned with controlling inflation, encouraging fiscal responsibility, and playing a significant part in the European security system.
		In the case of the SPD, these groups are closely tied to the SPD bureaucracy, and only the Young Socialists and the trade union group have policy-making roles.
	countrystudies.us /germany/160.htm (1176 words)

	NCPA - International Issues - Changing Germany
		It was my first trip to Germany's new capital since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
		Germany was the first of the welfare states, but its welfare state burden is no longer bearable.
		Germany has the heaviest tax burden of any major country, and while others are lowering taxes Germany's are rising (see figure).
	www.ncpa.org /~ncpa/pi/internat/pd032700a.html (333 words)

	Social Policy:Department (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Effective social policy helps individuals to lead a full and fulfilling life and, in so doing, makes economies more responsive to change and new growth opportunities.
		After accounting for the impact of taxation, social expenditure to GDP ratios appear similar in Australia, Denmark, United Kingdom and the United States; they are highest in France, Germany and Sweden.
		It aims to extend the understanding of fertility-related behaviours in different ways: by explaining recent developments in fertility rates and their relationships to other social drivers; by developing and testing new and expanded models to explain the cross-country variation in fertility rates due to labour markets, social and fiscal policies, and individual characteristics.
	www.oecd.org /els/social (513 words)

	Media Watch: Health and Science Media Monitoring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A team of neuroscientists from Germany studied the mental abilities of joggers over a number of weeks and found both their concentration and their visual memory were improved by pounding the pavement.
		At the Social Issues Research Centre we talk with people, we listen carefully, and we try to make sense of what people say within the context of their own ways of seeing the world and the meanings that they attribute to it.
		The Social Issues Research Centre continually monitors the world's press to determine trends in the food, health and science fields.
	www.sirc.org /media/media.html (4786 words)

	Germany (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Explore the history and culture of the country of Germany with this official sitefrom the German...
		Germany's International Broadcasting Station with links to numerous pages inmultiple languages containin...
		Germany : Country Studies - Federal Research Division, Library of...
	amadis.blogsilla.com /Germany (208 words)

	Vital Perspective: Social Issues
		The meeting, dubbed "Beating Back Bush and the System" attracted an odd mix of about twenty people of varying ages and backgrounds, brought together by a desire for revolution and a mutual understanding that facts and history were merely minor hurdles in their struggle.
		David Duke of the KKK and the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood say that they have been vindicated in their positions by the paper, and that "the people who wrote that report were working for the interest of the American people." Walt doesn't seem to want the attention, saying that "I have always found Mr.
		Kuwaiti governments have since the mid-1970s imposed a total ban on issuing licenses for new newspapers, and journalists could hitherto be jailed while under interrogation for an alleged offense.
	vitalperspective.typepad.com /vital_perspective_clarity/social_issues (7283 words)

	Talk Politics - Social Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The ongoing shambles that is the CSA is rapidly turning into amother issue in which it is impossible to conduct a reasoned and mature debate.
		My main practical criticism of this study, however, is reserved for its seeking to draw conclusions about the public's understanding of rape and the issues it raises - which is 'sold' as 'public ignorance' - from their apparent lack of awareness of current crime statistics and conviction rates.
		Still, this is an issue which looks set to rumble on for a bit, not least courtesy of the High Court judge who ruled that consent given when pissed is still consent, at the conclusion of a rape trial which ended with the judge instructing the jury to render an acquittal.
	talkpolitics.users20.donhost.co.uk /index.php?cat=26 (7404 words)

	Social Watch
		Social Watch is an international NGO watchdog network monitoring poverty eradication and gender equality.
		On May 1st 2006 Areli Sandoval presented at the UN Committee on ESCR in Geneva the Report on behalf of the Promoting Group of the Alternative Report on Economic, Social, Cultural and Enviromental Rights.
		Social Watch is an international watchdog citizens' network on poverty eradication and gender equality
	www.socialwatch.org (124 words)

	Demetrius at The Australian National University: Item 1885/41111 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Germany's refugee policies, traditionally among the most liberal in Europe, were gradually tightened in the 1990s in response to a rising foreigner population, social tensions and political pressures.
		CDU opposition leader Edmund Stoiber attempted to make immigration an election issue by threatening to annul the Act if his party won the 2002 election.
		He did not win, but the Act was annulled in December by an adverse Constitutional Court ruling, and the government and opposition are manoeuvring to adjust and resubmit it.
	hdl.handle.net /1885/41111 (291 words)

	Publications Brief Description (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		"Wirtschaftsdienst" publishes papers (mainly by external authors) pertaining to current economic and social policy issues in Germany and Europe.
		The HWWA Studies publish the results of research by HWWA economists and guest researchers which are too voluminous for publication in external journals.
		The HWWA Reports publish work by HWWA economists and guest researchers which is addressed primarily at economic policy issues or which is of a more analytical and descriptive — rather than theoretical - nature.
	www.hwwa.de /Publications/description.htm (226 words)

	Is America Racist Still? - Social Issues Articles at ArticlesArchive.net
		After World War II, German lawyers defending those accused of being Nazi war criminals for having forcibly sterilized two million people as a part of Nazi racial doctrine pointed to the sterilization laws in America and the 1927 Supreme Court decision as justification for their clients' conduct.
		With Hitler's coming to power in 1933, Germany's racial hygienists came into their own, with institutes for race science and research being established or expanded.
		Harry L. Laughlin, who authored the "model" sterilization law for Virginia that was then copied by several other states, saw his proposals explicitly implemented in Germany's 1933 Hereditary Health Law, that prohibited racial intermarriage and codified forced sterilization in the new Germany.
	socialissues.articlesarchive.net /is-america-racist-still.html (862 words)

	MPR: Social Issues
		In the weeks following Hurricane Katrina, President Bush acknowledged that the disaster laid bare the persistent racial inequalities in America, but Bush strongly rejected the idea that the federal government's response to Katrina was somehow racist.
		Social critic Michael Eric Dyson was not convinced.
		The goal is for immigrants to blend seamlessly into their new communities.
	news.minnesota.publicradio.org /collections/social/index.php?offset=120 (524 words)

	History & Social Issues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		He examines the leader's shrewd mixture of Serbian nationalism and socialism, his utilization of the media as part of his "technology of rule," and the employment of the educational system as a vehicle for political socialization.
		This authoritative study looks at the history of the virus and examines the complex issues surrounding the question of whether the remaining stocks of the virus should be destroyed.
		Essays on labor history and social protest written between the early fifties and the early eighties set standards of wide-ranging, evocative, incisive analysis.
	www.ironkettle.com /page2.htm (15700 words)

	Mid Term Papers: Term Papers on Science
		This term paper is on Albert Einstein and His Theories Albert Einstein and His Theories Einstein, Albert (1879-1955), German-born American physicist and Nobel laureate, best known as the creator of the special and general theories of relativity and for his bold hypothesis concerning the particle nature of light.
		This term paper is on On October 3, 1990, the states of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) shed their last ties to their Soviet created structure and joined the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany).
		This term paper is on Germany Germany On October 3, 1990, the states of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) shed their last ties to their Soviet created structure and joined the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany).
	www.midtermpapers.com /Science_29.html (1246 words)

	EKD: Protestant Church in Germany - - EKD appoints church official for agrarian-social issues
		Pastor Rudi Job has been appointed church official for agrarian-social issues by the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).
		Against the background of the cattle disease BSE, many farming families are feeling very unsure due to the continually altering circumstances of their work, said Job.
		Political policies must ”in future promote agricultural practices that are in tune with social acceptability and the protection of consumers”.
	www.ekd.de /bulletin/5409.html (305 words)

	HUB exhibit reveals social messages in German rock music
		The exhibit, packaged by the Goethe Institute in Germany and sent to the University's German Department, shows rock music's universal messages, said Tom Beebee, professor of German comparative literature.
		Feminist rockers challenge Germany's patriarchal society, such as the female group, Ina Deter who focus on the inequalities between men and women.
		The display, which covers from the 1950s to present day, is arranged chronologically and divided into genres such as political, punk, new wave and blues.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/1991/04/04-05-91tdc/04-05-91dnews-15.asp (496 words)

	Amazon.com: Economics of Social Issues: Books: Ansel Miree Sharp,Charles A. Register,Paul W. Grimes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The book may also be used to supplement principles courses with lively social issues to add relevance to the economic principles being taught.
		Economics of Social Issues has garnered a loyal user following for its timely and impartial handling of current social issues which dominate newspapers and television news.
		While the issues are contemporary and the supporting information updated, the authors remain objective.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0072559551?v=glance (753 words)

	Social & Political Issues
		After the establishment of Israel in 1948, Parkes traveled to the Middle East and issued several books on the problems between Arabs and Jews: The History of Palestine; Whose Land?: A History of the Peoples of Palestine; and End of An Exile: Israel, The Jews, and The Gentile World.
		The Chronicles are a useful tool for progressive educators, (high school through graduate school), economists, historians, social and religious theorists, psychologists, activists and the concerned.
		The Ipuwer Chronicles are named after the Egyptian sage Ipuwer (pronounced Epu-ware or Epu-or) and is a metaphor answer to his Admonitions in which he describes a probable earthquake devastation of Egypt and the ensuing severe reversals of fortune.
	www.bookch.com /social.htm (4586 words)

	World Socialist Web Site
		Germany: Christian Democrats and Greens form coalition government in Frankfurt
		The social and political crisis in the United States and the 2006 SEP election campaign
		Lecture nine: The rise of fascism in Germany and the collapse of the Communist International
	www.wsws.org (1373 words)

	Online NewsHour: Social Issues Archive \| PBS
		Abbas to Issue Referendum on Whether the Palestinians Should Recognizing Israel
		Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Thursday he would call a referendum on whether the Palestinian government should accept Israel if Hamas does not back the idea within 10 days.
		Germany agreed to allow access to a trove of information on what happened to more than 17 million people who were executed or forced into labor for the Nazi war machine during the Holocaust.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/topic/social_issues (1715 words)

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