Due to the dialectical analysis of fundamental economic categories, the market economy appears as a complex, nonlinear, functionally closed (but ca...

Non-disability mental conditions, such as personality disorders, can render a service member unsuitable for military service and can lead to an adm...

The trafficking of persons has frequently been described as a "modern" or "Twenty-First Century" form of slavery. According to the Department of St...

At approximately noon on Saturday 9 August 2014, Officer Darren Wilson of the Ferguson Police Department (FPD) shot and killed Michael Brown, an un...

In the last decade, shortages of prescription drugs containing controlled substances, such as narcotics and stimulants, have increased nationwide, ...

Henry Home, Lord Kames, was by nature an advocate for reform and improvement and stood at the heart of the modernizing and liberalizing movement no...

Henry Home, Lord Kames, was by nature an advocate for reform and improvement and stood at the heart of the modernizing and liberalizing movement no...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contains several provisions to encourage employer-sponsored health coverage, particularly among smal...

Social Security is a self-financing program that provides monthly cash benefits to retired or disabled workers and their family members and to the ...

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program provides benefits to insured workers with disabilities under the full retirement age and their ...

The programs administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA) form the foundation for the nation's social insurance network that has greatl...

The Social Security system is currently generating surplus tax revenues. However, under the intermediate assumptions of the Social Security Board o...

This book provides an overview of the current Social Security special minimum benefit provision workings; explains how the Retirement Earnings Test...

Drug-related homicides have dramatically increased in recent years in Mexico along the nearly 2,000-mile border it shares with the United States. U...

This book provides an overview of the current debate over whether a holder of a patent essential to an industry standard, who has promised to licen...

CHIP is a joint federal-state program that finances health insurance for over 8 million children. Since the program's inception, the percentage of ...

The State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is a means-tested program that provides health coverage to targeted low-income children and pr...

The annual State, Foreign Operations and Related Agencies appropriations bill is the primary legislative vehicle through which Congress reviews the...

Chapter 1 analyses recent changes to state Unemployment Compensation (UC) programs. Two categories of UC state law issues are considered: (1) chang...

As part of the nation's unemployment insurance (UI) system, overseen by DOL, states provide benefits to eligible unemployed workers, with additiona...

Privacy and Copyright protection is a very important issue in our digital society, where a very large amount of multimedia data are generated and d...

Written for the layman as well as the legal practitioner, The Story of Law is the only complete outline history of the law ever published. It is th...

Written for the layman as well as the legal practitioner, The Story of Law is the only complete outline history of the law ever published. It is th...

FDA's primary responsibility is to protect the American people from unsafe or mislabelled food, drugs, and other medical products and to make sure ...

Studies show that up to 85 percent of youth in juvenile detention facilities have disabilities that make them eligible for special education servic...

Supervised release is the successor to parole in the federal criminal justice system. In 1984, Congress eliminated parole to create a more determin...

The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, enacted in 1974, is a needs-based program that provides cash benefits designed to ensure a minimum ...

The U.S. economy is dependent on the expeditious flow of millions of tons of cargo each day. Cargo containers are an important instrument of global...

The Department of Defense (DOD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) play key roles in offering post-combat support to servicemembers and ve...

The appointment of a Supreme Court Justice is an infrequent event of major significance in American politics. Each appointment is important because...

The appointment of a Supreme Court Justice is an event of major significance in American politics. Each appointment is important because of the eno...

The Supreme Court of the United States is in the midst of a generation change which will no doubt result in societal imperatives different than tho...