Download or read book Enabling America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-11-24 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most recent high-profile advocate for Americans with disabilities, actor Christopher Reeve, has highlighted for the public the economic and social costs of disability and the importance of rehabilitation. Enabling America is a major analysis of the field of rehabilitation science and engineering. The book explains how to achieve recognition for this evolving field of study, how to set priorities, and how to improve the organization and administration of the numerous federal research programs in this area. The committee introduces the "enabling-disability process" model, which enhances the concepts of disability and rehabilitation, and reviews what is known and what research priorities are emerging in the areas of: Pathology and impairment, including differences between children and adults. Functional limitationsâ€"in a person's ability to eat or walk, for example. Disability as the interaction between a person's pathologies, impairments, and functional limitations and the surrounding physical and social environments. This landmark volume will be of special interest to anyone involved in rehabilitation science and engineering: federal policymakers, rehabilitation practitioners and administrators, researchers, and advocates for persons with disabilities.
Download or read book Enabling America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-11-24 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most recent high-profile advocate for Americans with disabilities, actor Christopher Reeve, has highlighted for the public the economic and social costs of disability and the importance of rehabilitation. Enabling America is a major analysis of the field of rehabilitation science and engineering. The book explains how to achieve recognition for this evolving field of study, how to set priorities, and how to improve the organization and administration of the numerous federal research programs in this area. The committee introduces the "enabling-disability process" model, which enhances the concepts of disability and rehabilitation, and reviews what is known and what research priorities are emerging in the areas of: Pathology and impairment, including differences between children and adults. Functional limitationsâ€"in a person's ability to eat or walk, for example. Disability as the interaction between a person's pathologies, impairments, and functional limitations and the surrounding physical and social environments. This landmark volume will be of special interest to anyone involved in rehabilitation science and engineering: federal policymakers, rehabilitation practitioners and administrators, researchers, and advocates for persons with disabilities.
Download or read book America Ascendant written by Stanley B. Greenberg and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America is poised to lead the 21st Century, as it led the 20th. That will happen because the country is at a tipping point in the battle for its own renewal, a renewal that will allow America to be exceptional again. Our economy is on the move, fueled by revolutions in energy, immigration, innovation, big data and advanced manufacturing. America's energy independence has set off shockwaves. Just as important are the social transformations that are making the country ever more racially and culturally diverse, younger, a home to immigrants, and the metropolitan centers that foster a rising economic and cultural dynamism. While most other countries struggle profoundly with immigration and religious and racial differences, America's on a path to multicultural identity. Those revolutions in the economy, society and culture and are also producing a new American majority that embraces new values and new politics. Republicans are waging a counter-revolution and that is why America looks gridlocked and why the country is turning to Democrats to take on the country's growing challenges. The economic and social transformations leave people struggling to earn enough and reach the middle class. Families are under stress. Government is corrupted by big money. The American public is demanding the country address the dark side of our progress - and reforms are starting to happen. That is why Democrats will get to lead an era of reform and renewal comparable to the progressive era that mitigated the excesses of the Industrial Revolution. In this incisive book, expert strategist Greenberg draws on years of research and polling to illuminate how America is far from being gridlocked and he articulates a powerful vision of how American politics and America can be renewed.
Download or read book The Enabling State written by Neil Gilbert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1989-10-19 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades new arrangements have emerged for the finance and delivery of social welfare in the United States and other industrial democracies. Moving beyond the conventional paradigm of the welfare state, these arrangements form an alternative model. This study details a fresh vision of social welfare transfers--how they are delivered, and whom they benefit. The authors explore the use of private enterprise and market-oriented approaches to the delivery of social provisions, and examine how welfare benefits are derived from the full range of modern social transfers including tax expenditures, credit subsidies, and those induced by regulatory activity. Reappraising the modern boundaries of social welfare, this book provides insights into the structure and dynamics of a novel social model that will open new avenues for scientific study and public debate.
Download or read book The Future of Disability in America written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-10-24 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The future of disability in America will depend on how well the U.S. prepares for and manages the demographic, fiscal, and technological developments that will unfold during the next two to three decades. Building upon two prior studies from the Institute of Medicine (the 1991 Institute of Medicine's report Disability in America and the 1997 report Enabling America), The Future of Disability in America examines both progress and concerns about continuing barriers that limit the independence, productivity, and participation in community life of people with disabilities. This book offers a comprehensive look at a wide range of issues, including the prevalence of disability across the lifespan; disability trends the role of assistive technology; barriers posed by health care and other facilities with inaccessible buildings, equipment, and information formats; the needs of young people moving from pediatric to adult health care and of adults experiencing premature aging and secondary health problems; selected issues in health care financing (e.g., risk adjusting payments to health plans, coverage of assistive technology); and the organizing and financing of disability-related research. The Future of Disability in America is an assessment of both principles and scientific evidence for disability policies and services. This book's recommendations propose steps to eliminate barriers and strengthen the evidence base for future public and private actions to reduce the impact of disability on individuals, families, and society.
Download or read book Disability Studies written by Sharon L. Snyder and published by Modern Language Association. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of disability pervade language and literature, yet disability is, as the volume's introduction notes, "the ubiquitous unspoken topic in contemporary culture." The twenty-five essays in Disability Studies provide perspectives on disabled people and on disability in the humanities, art, the media, medicine, psychology, the academy, and society. Edited and introduced by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson and containing an afterword by Michael Bérubé (author of Life As We Know It), the volume is rich in its cast of characters (including John Bulwer, Teresa de Cartagena, Audre Lorde, Oliver Sacks, Samuel Johnson, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman); in its powerful, authentic accounts of disabled conditions (deafness, blindness, MS, cancer, the absence of limbs); in its different settings (ancient Greece, medieval Spain, Nazi Germany, the modern United States); and in its mix of the intellectual and the emotional, of subtle theory and plainspoken autobiography.
Download or read book WAKE UP AMERICA written by Charlie Pedersen and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wake up America takes a journey across the world to discover what we need to do move our and world society to a new level of positive growth, peacefully, and a way that maximizes our diverse world societies. We are moving towards a nine billion citizen planet and we need a twenty first century refresh. The Oil and Gas dominated twentieth century society, much like the wood and coal based nineteenth century, needs to step up to a new paradigm. Since we dominantly have been trying to find the "best " solution, it's time to enable all the "clean" alternatives. To accomplish this, we take over the Presidency and change direction. Wake Up America exhaustively finds that the major reality is a short-supply based past has changed to a plentiful harvest of clean energy, but now we face a Water crises. Our dominant multi-monopoly based Oil & Gas Cartels are not enabling change Therefore government leadership is needed. Wake UP America travels the world and concludes that enabling diverse refueling at the "pump" will allow society to set the direction. And I assure you, enabling citizens to choose will quickly set direction. The provision of service station tax credits will pay for itself because of the enormous tax incentives that fund the Oil and Gas industry "corporate welfare" payments. As energy direction changes so will the tax benefits of the providers. To not pursue this direction will result in loss of the energy leadership we possess, to the Chines, Indians, and Euros. This will make the USA a follower nation, financially, because Asia must solve the problem. OUR CHANGE will open up the entrepreneurship energy in our people and result in wide open GROWING markets. For the USA to overcome its twenty one trillion dollar tax deficit, the only way to EXPAND our economy is the increase the GDP, as well as avoid the obviously coming recession/depletion we are racing towards. Wake Up America We are 4.6 % of the world population and the world needs our leadership and participation....
Download or read book American Mythos written by Robert Wuthnow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-03 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the narratives that are the basis of the cultural identity of the United States and demonstrates how the "American mythos" has legitimized American society and prevented it from realizing its ideals.
Download or read book Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Freedom to Read written by American Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book How to Make America Utopia written by Egberto Willies and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2021-04-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How To Make America Utopia" explains our economy and our politics in a manner that is easily understood. More importantly, it is truthful and discounts the misinformation that has been told since the country's inception. The book illustrates how the false basis on which the economy is based is responsible for most Americans' inability to succeed independently or get the services they want from the government. Ultimately, it clarifies what an American Utopia should be, an America where all have equal access to success and happiness.We answer the following questions and many others. Most importantly, we provide plausible solutions.* Why do most Americans continue to accept a system that moves so slowly in empowering one group after that another?* Why do Americans continue to support politicians who refuse to establish a health care system that takes care of all its citizens like every major industrialized country in the world?* Why do Americans continue to support a criminal justice system so unfair to people of color and all the poor even though their country preaches morality to the rest of the world? * Why do Americans continue to tolerate an unequal educational system where one's public education is directly proportional to the wealth of the portion of any school district where one resides?* Why do Americans accept a public college education system that saddles a large percentage of students with burdensome debts?* Why do Americans give corporations the same rights we give human beings, personhood?* Why do Americans allow politicians to spend more than the next 9 or so countries combined for a defense we will never need nor could we ever use?* Why do Americans allow politicians to build toll roads, in effect allowing private corporations to tax us for roads that should be built from taxpayer dollars? * Why do Americans allow the working person's income to be taxed at a higher rate than investment income?* Why do Americans allow corporations to use the patent system to stifle innovation?* Why do Americans allow deregulation at the expense of their health and a clean environment?* Why do Americans support an economic system biased to the corporation and business first?
Download or read book Fostering Independence Participation and Healthy Aging Through Technology written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council (NRC) have had prominent roles in discussions of aging, disability, and technology for decades. In 1978, Aging and Medical Education (IOM, 1978) raised national awareness of the challenges to physicians posed by the aging of the U.S. population. Thirty years later, Retooling for an Aging America highlighted concerns for the entire health care workforce in view of the aging of the population, including the role of technology in caring for older populations. The 1988 report The Aging Population in the 21st Century examined social, economic, and demographic changes among older adults, as well as many health-related topics: health promotion and disease prevention; quality of life; health care system financing and use; and the quality of care- especially long-term care. In 1991, the landmark report Disability in America laid out a national agenda to prevent disability and improve the lives of people with disabling conditions. The 1997 report Enabling America: Assessing the Role of Rehabilitation Science and Engineering examined the knowledge base of rehabilitation science and engineering and proposed ways to translate scientific findings into interventions that produce better health. And the 2007 report The Future of Disability in America examined progress made since the earlier reports and looked at continuing barriers that limit the independence, productivity, and participation in community life of people with disabilities. All these reports were produced by committees appointed in accordance with guidelines of the National Academies and met multiples times to compile and review evidence, reach consensus on conclusions and recommendations, draft a report of the committee, and then modify that draft report in response to comments from outside reviewers. The IOM and NRC have also held several workshops related to aging, disability, and technology and published summary reports, such as Technology for Adaptive Aging and Grand Challenges of Our Aging Society. The IOM and NRC also convene groups that take a different approach to issues of pressing national and international importance. Often known as forums or roundtables, these groups meet regularly to foster dialogue and confront issues of mutual interest and concern among a broad range of stakeholders. They can convene workshops, initiate cooperative projects among members, commission independently authored articles, and generate ideas for independent consensus studies. In 2012 the IOM and NRC joined together to establish the Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence to provide a neutral venue for broad-ranging discussions among the many stakeholders involved with aging and disability. The goals of the forum are to highlight areas in which the coordination of the aging and disability networks is strong, examine the challenges involved in aligning the aging and disability networks, explore new approaches for resolving problem areas, elevate the visibility and broaden the perspectives of stakeholders, and set the stage for future policy actions. Forum sponsors and members include federal agencies, health professional associations, private sector businesses, academics, and consumers. Fostering Independence, Participation, and Healthy Aging Through Technology summarizes this workshop.
Download or read book Building a 21st century Infrastructure for America written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. Subcommittee on Aviation and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Wake Up America Water and Energy WE written by Charlie Pedersen and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wake up America takes a journey across the world to discover what we need to do move our and world society to a new level of positive growth, peacefully, and a way that maximizes our diverse world societies. We are moving towards a nine billion citizen planet, and we need a twenty first century refresh. The Oil and Gas dominated twentieth century society, much like the wood and coal based nineteenth century, needs to step up to a new paradigm. Since we dominantly have been trying to find the "best " solution, it's time to enable all the "clean" alternatives. To accomplish this, we take over the Presidency and change direction. Wake Up America exhaustively finds that the major reality is a short supply based past has changed to a plentiful harvest of clean energy, but now we face a Water crisis. Our dominant multi-monopoly-based Oil & Gas Cartels are not enabling change Therefore government leadership is needed. Wake UP America travels the world and concludes that enabling diverse refueling at the "pump" will allow society to set the direction. And I assure you, enabling citizens to choose will quickly set direction. The provision of service station tax credits will pay for itself because of the enormous tax incentives that fund the Oil and Gas industry "corporate welfare" payments. As energy direction changes so will the tax benefits of the providers. To not pursue this direction will result in loss of the energy leadership we possess, to the Chines, Indians, and Euros. This will make the USA a follower nation, financially, because Asia must solve the problem. OUR CHANGE will open up the entrepreneurship energy in our people and result in wide open GROWING markets. For the USA to overcome its twenty-one trillion-dollar tax deficit, the only way to EXPAND our economy is the increase the GDP, as well as avoid the obviously coming recession/depletion we are racing towards. Wake Up America We are 4.6 % of the world population and the world needs our leadership and participation....
Download or read book The Hidden History of American Healthcare written by Thom Hartmann and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann reveals how and why attempts to implement affordable universal healthcare in the United States have been thwarted and what we can do to finally make it a reality. "For-profit health insurance is the largest con job ever perpetrated on the American people—one that has cost trillions of dollars and millions of lives since the 1940s,” says Thom Hartmann. Other countries have shown us that affordable universal healthcare is not only possible but also effective and efficient. Taiwan's single-payer system saved the country a fortune as well as saving lives during the coronavirus pandemic, enabling the country to implement a nationwide coronavirus test-and-contact-trace program without shutting down the economy. This resulted in just ten deaths, while more than 500,000 people have died in the United States. Hartmann offers a deep dive into the shameful history of American healthcare, showing how greed, racism, and oligarchic corruption led to the current “sickness for profit” system. Modern attempts to create versions of government healthcare have been hobbled at every turn, including Obamacare. There is a simple solution: Medicare for all. Hartmann outlines the extraordinary benefits this system would provide the American people and economy and the steps we need to take to make it a reality. It's time for America to join every industrialized country in the world and make health a right, not a privilege.
Download or read book Good Jobs America written by Paul Osterman and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America confronts a jobs crisis that has two faces. The first is obvious when we read the newspapers or talk with our friends and neighbors: there are simply not enough jobs to go around. The second jobs crisis is more subtle but no less serious: far too many jobs fall below the standard that most Americans would consider decent work. A quarter of working adults are trapped in jobs that do not provide living wages, health insurance, or much hope of upward mobility. The problem spans all races and ethnic groups and includes both native-born Americans and immigrants. But Good Jobs America provides examples from industries ranging from food services and retail to manufacturing and hospitals to demonstrate that bad jobs can be made into good ones. Paul Osterman and Beth Shulman make a rigorous argument that by enacting policies to help employers improve job quality we can create better jobs, and futures, for all workers. Good Jobs America dispels several myths about low-wage work and job quality. The book demonstrates that mobility out of the low-wage market is a chimera—far too many adults remain trapped in poor-quality jobs. Osterman and Shulman show that while education and training are important, policies aimed at improving earnings equality are essential to lifting workers out of poverty. The book also demolishes the myth that such policies would slow economic growth. The experiences of countries such as France, Germany, and the Netherlands, show that it is possible to mandate higher job standards while remaining competitive in international markets. Good Jobs America shows that both government and the firms that hire low-wage workers have important roles to play in improving the quality of low-wage jobs. Enforcement agencies might bolster the effectiveness of existing regulations by exerting pressure on parent companies, enabling effects to trickle down to the subsidiaries and sub-contractors where low-wage jobs are located. States like New York have already demonstrated that involving community and advocacy groups—such as immigrant rights organizations, social services agencies, and unions—in the enforcement process helps decrease workplace violations. And since better jobs reduce turnover and improve performance, career ladder programs within firms help create positions employees can aspire to. But in order for ladder programs to work, firms must also provide higher rungs—the career advancement opportunities workers need to get ahead. Low-wage employment occupies a significant share of the American labor market, but most of these jobs offer little and lead nowhere. Good Jobs America reappraises what we know about job quality and low-wage employment and makes a powerful argument for our obligation to help the most vulnerable workers. A core principle of U.S. society is that good jobs be made accessible to all. This book proposes that such a goal is possible if we are committed to realizing it.
