Finding the courage to make tough decisions
Article Abstract:
The large number of baby boomers retiring translates to a 55% tax deduction on the income of today's workers needed to fund the retirees' social security benefits. The huge tax deduction is due to low birth rates and longer life spans which lead to a measly ratio of 3.3 workers paying for the social security of a single beneficiary compared to 42 workers per beneficiary in 1945. However, measures to avoid huge tax cuts have been offered by government officials. They are pushing for the privatization of social security to open them to investment opportunities and thus raise more funds.
Publication Name: Business and Society Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0045-3609
Year: 1996
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Finding a place for the jobless in discrimination theory
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Jobless people suffer many forms of economic, social and legal discrimination, and the law needs to recognize the jobless as a distinct social class targeted for discrimination. Bias against the jobless stems from certain presumptions about work and productivity, and the jobless are divided into excusable joblessness, including students and the elderly, and those who are not excused. Joblessness results in a loss of autonomy and authority, economic invisibility, increased difficulty in becoming employed, and being stereotyped as lazy.
Publication Name: Harvard Law Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0017-811X
Year: 1997
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Can business ever make an honest mistake?
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The tendency of Americans to sue people for what may be accidents and to over-regulate businesses when people are hurt by products is satirically depicted. An anecdote is told about people trying to regulate elevator companies after an elevator decapitated a man. Another example of an accident is cited in which a plane crash caused by a sudden storm led to years of lawsuits.
Publication Name: Business and Society Review
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0045-3609
Year: 1995
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