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...

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...

On 6 July 2012, the President signed into law a new two-year transportation reauthorisation bill, the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century...

The recognition of same-sex marriage generates debate on both the federal and state levels. Either legislatively or judicially, same-sex marriage i...

Economic sanctions on Russian individuals, entities, and sectors have been a key part of the U.S. response to Russia's annexation of the Crimean re...

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, PL 107-204 described by some as the most important and far-reaching securities legislation since passage of the Sec...

The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 required the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to update nutrition standards for school lunches and b...

Only a small fraction of the impaired drivers who are at risk for alcohol-impaired-driving crashes are arrested. These include drivers who drink re...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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 ...