The purpose of the legislation discussed in chapter 1 is to do the following: support national defense and the United States Merchant Marine by aut...

Rapid changes in the price of oil and the impact of such price changes on economies around the globe have attracted considerable attention. In mid-...

The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution prohibits the government from establishing a religion and guarantees citizens the right to freely exer...

The United States is the world's largest producer, consumer, and exporter of remanufactured goods. Remanufacturing is an industrial process that re...

Gambling, once widely outlawed, is now a regulated, taxed activity that is legal in some form - bingo, card games, slot machines, state-run lotteri...

All fifty States, the District of Columbia, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands have statut...

Residential energy efficiency can benefit consumers through reduced utility bills, and support national environmental policy objectives by reducing...

The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA, P.L. 105-220) is the primary federal law that provides job training and related services to unemployed a...

It is of the utmost importance to review our policies and practices, and to make changes where we find unseemly and illegal programs or inefficient...

In response to concerns over the adequacy of retirement savings, Congress has created incentives to encourage individuals to save more for retireme...

Millions of U.S. workers have little or no savings for retirement, potentially adding to future strains on state and national safety net programs. ...

In criminal justice literature, "community justice" usually refers to a variety of alternative adjudicative strategies and practices. In this book,...

The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) establishes most private-sector workers' rights to unionise and collectively bargain over wages, benefits, ...

In 2012, the Department of Defense (DoD) spent $52 billion on health care for service members, retirees, and their families. The department offers ...

The number of people incarcerated in the United States has increased significantly over the past three decades from approximately 419,000 inmates i...

The Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA)1 regulates robocalls. A robocall, also known as "voice broadcasting," is any telephone call th...

How can we solve the re-entry challenge and ensure that incarcerated individuals and those under community supervision become productive members of...

Supported by the custom of "senatorial courtesy," Senators of the President's party have long played, as a general rule, the primary role in select...

It is said that at the start of the 21st century a certain indifference and lethargy characterise many European states. This is supposedly attribut...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that more than $680 billion is needed to repair and replace water and wastewater infrastructure...

The federal government supports infrastructure investment in a variety of ways. However, the most common means of providing a tax subsidy for infra...

In addition to having a low government take, the deep water Gulf of Mexico and other U.S. regions are attractive targets for investment because the...