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The Benefits of Reading on Longevity
Get PDFWhat if I told you there is a scientifically proven way of adding time to your life that is as simple as reading a few chapters of your favorite book? A study performed at Yale University School of Public Health compared the longevity of people who read books to those who only read periodicals. Those conducting the study predicted that the book-readers would have increased levels of survival, as reading books has been shown to promote two distinct cognitive properties tied to longevity
Unallot a Lot: Virginia\u27s Human Services Budgeting in the Time of Coronavirus
Get PDFVirginia’s 2020 General Assembly budgeting process for fiscal year (“FY”) 2021-2022 was upended by the global pandemic which, after a rosy economic forecast for the Commonwealth, sent revenue expectations tumbling, and necessitated a nearly complete rewrite of the budget immediately upon its enactment by the legislature. Social services, an important aspect in the economic health of the Commonwealth, seemed poised to have greater support from the new Democratic majority in both houses of the state legislature as well as the governor’s mansion. But this may or may not have been true, even before the impact of COVID-19
Analysis of the Socio-Environmental Impacts of the Proposed Transboundary Highway between Pucallpa, Peru and Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil
Get PDFAs road building across the Amazon continues to be proposed by both Brazilian and Peruvian governments, it becomes increasingly important to consider the effects this infrastructure could have on diverse Amazonian cultures and ecosystems. One proposal being discussed is a 200 km road that would connect the cities of Pucallpa, Peru and Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil. While promoted as economically beneficial, the road could infringe upon protected conservation areas and indigenous lands, bringing illegal activity with it as well. This research aims to evaluate the potential impacts the Pucallapa-Cruzeiro do Sul road project presents to the ecosystems, societies, and economies of the southwestern Amazon using a mixed methodology including geospatial analysis, remote sensing, and a literature review of previous studies on the impact of roads in tropical forests. These analyses will attempt to express the scale of the repercussions that road construction may bring to the bioculturally rich Amazon borderlands
Empire on Trial
No full textIn this thesis I recontextualize the transition of Roman Republic to Roman Empire under the reign of Augustus. Special focus is placed on theories of executive control and checks and balances
From the Exception to the Rule: A Realistic Analysis and Approach for Advancing Board Diversity
Get PDFWith companies increasingly promoting diversity and inclusion measures, how are they ensuring diversity and inclusion within their own leadership teams? The landscape for gender diversity within corporate boards is bleak and the landscape for racial diversity is worse. Throw in the intersection of race and gender and the picture becomes even bleaker. In order to combat this corporate governance issue, the U.S. and other countries have primarily focused on three regulatory approaches: (1) the quota system, (2) the disclosure method, and (3) the comply-or-explain approach. This paper addresses each approach (internationally and domestically) to implement greater board diversity for U.S. public corporations, while taking into account the unique corporate government of U.S. companies. Ultimately, this paper proffers a holistic, multi-factorial approach of both regulatory and non-regulatory solutions that will likely have the best chance to begin establishing long-lasting change
Carreteras en la Amazonía: Perspectivas de la Frontera Perú-Brasil
No full textEsta presentación usa mapas de la geografía de la zona fronteriza entre Ucayali y Acre para introducir dos escenarios de carreteras propuestas: 1) La carretera propuesta trocha UC-105, Nuevo Italia-Puerto Breu, Ucayali, Perú; 2) Lacarretera propuesta Pucallpa, Ucayali, Perú - Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brasil BR-364 y PE-18C
Bias-Related Attitudes Towards Black Women Of Transgender Experience in Nonprofit, Community, and Government Leadership
Get PDFThis study examines explicit attitudes and implicit biases that are learned and perpetuated against Black women of transgender experience. These behaviors and beliefs contribute to broader impacts around policy support and community safety. Long-term discrimination against Black women of transgender experience create various disadvantages in social, educational, and economic arenas. The primary research question will explore the ways in which personal and external experiences influence how society responds to Black transgender women. An additional research tool, which will involve qualitative and quantitative data sampling, this researcher will explore the experiences, attitudes and perceived behaviors of both Black transgender women and a mixture of community members with various roles in government, community organizations, and nonprofits. This study will begin its focus on how public opinion on Black transgender women presents based on human experiences, television and media presentations, public office representation, and policy creation that impact beliefs and behaviors. There is some scholarly research already contributing to this topic by finding that implicit bias and explicit attitudes do play significant roles in how society responds to Black transgender women through various racist and sexist structures. There are however, some gaps in the areas of effective interventions that increase visibility and disruption of the root causes of hetero and cis-normative white supremacy. This work contributes to previous conclusions about the impacts of long-held structural sexism, racism, and transphobia being major contributors to the challenges faced by and health disparities among Black women of transgender experience
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Making Federalism Work: Lessons from Health Care for the Green New Deal
Get PDFFor decades, federalism had a bad reputation. It often was perceived as little more than a cover for state resistance to civil rights and other social justice reforms. More recently, however, progressive scholars have argued that federalism can meaningfully advance nationalist ends. According to these scholars, federalism allows for spaces in which norms can be contested, developed, and extended. This new strain of scholarship also recognizes, however, that these federalist structures can still shield national-level reforms from reaching all Americans. Many see such gaps as a regrettable but unavoidable feature of our federalist system. But to embrace federalism as an important component of the U.S. legal architecture does not mean that one must abandon efforts to craft effective federalist programs. To the contrary, this Article argues that the scholarly coalescence around the virtues of federalism raises a pressing new question: are there ways to structure federalist programs that help to build constituencies and participation over time? That is, for those who accept federalism but are committed to expanding essential services and goods to all Americans, how can policymakers best make federalism work? To answer this question, the Article analyzes an important case study in modern federalism: the Affordable Care Act. We argue that the ACA experience offers three critical lessons about how to structure modern, federalist social justice legislation that both respects states as partners and builds effectively toward national norms. These lessons involve (1) the new importance of federal program “backstops,” (2) the need to create unusual coalitions, and (3) the counterintuitive benefits of building upon entrenched statutory programs.
These lessons from the ACA should, we assert, help architects and scholars of new legislative efforts better understand how to make federalism work to achieve social justice ends today. To illustrate how, the Article concludes by applying these lessons to the Green New Deal—the vibrant new legislative effort to jointly tackle climate change and inequality