Brazil, which has the largest black population outside Africa, is proposing racial quotas in universities, Civil Service jobs and even television soap operas. Black Brazilians have long complained of being kept at the bottom of the ladder. However, applying quotas in Brazil is much trickier than in the U.S.
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An unprecedented campaign to track down and eliminate the sources of funding for global violence is underway. But banking experts caution that funds for terrorism are a drop in a global sea of money being laundered in banking centres around the world.
Between $800 billion and $1.5 trillion in illicit
America’s dependence on foreign oil is not only an economic concern but a national security issue as well. The U.S. is highly reliant on foreign oil, much of which comes from the Middle East.
During the 1970s energy crisis, America was 36 percent dependent on foreign oil.
Today it is
Despite a massive infusion of federal spending on health care, waiting lists in Canada have grown significantly. Total waiting time for patients between referral from a general practitioner and treatment, averaged across all 12 specialties and 10 provinces surveyed, rose from 13.1 weeks in 1999 to 16.2 weeks in 2000-01
A new analysis by the Urban Institute confirms that the dire predictions of welfare-reform opponents failed to materialise in the wake of American reforms.
Economist Robert I. Lerman reports that between early 1994 and the first quarter of this year the employment ratio of all working-age Americans rose by less
Hospital spending has overtaken drug costs as the leading driver of health inflation in the U.S., according to a new study. Hospital spending is increasing at a rate not seen since the early 1990s, due to a combination of looser restrictions by managed care plans that have increased utilisation, rising
The Bush administration is seeking U.S. congressional authority for broader wiretapping (which attorneys general have sought for decades) and greater authority to detain and expel immigrants (whom the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled in a number of cases do not have the same degree of constitutional protection as citizens).
Many Americans
New data from the Census Bureau reveal that poverty declined in the U.S. last year leaving poverty rates for blacks and female heads of households at their lowest levels since record-keeping began in 1979.
The number of people in poverty hit 31.1 million in 2000 down from 32.3
The question of how technology affects learning has been at the center of recent debates over educational inputs.
In 1994, the Israeli State Lottery sponsored the installation of computers in many elementary and middle schools. This program provides an opportunity to estimate the impact of computerization on both the instructional
Census data for 1990-91 indicate that immigrants to Australia and Canada have higher levels of English fluency, education and income relative to natives than do immigrants to the United States.
This skill deficit for U.S. immigrants arises primarily because the U.S. receives a much larger share of immigrants from Latin America:
