The Quality of American Life in the Eighties: Report of the Panel on the Quality of American LifePresident's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties, 1980 - 140 páginas |
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... adult education courses . • 99 " It's a place where I can get involved in the com- munity and make a difference . • • 99 However , quality of life is not an entirely subjective matter . Although few people would agree on the most de ...
... adult education courses . • 99 " It's a place where I can get involved in the com- munity and make a difference . • • 99 However , quality of life is not an entirely subjective matter . Although few people would agree on the most de ...
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... adults will reach their home - seeking age in the 1980s , there will be a high demand for new housing units . However , in recent years , the number of housing starts has been declining . At the same time , the number of rental units ...
... adults will reach their home - seeking age in the 1980s , there will be a high demand for new housing units . However , in recent years , the number of housing starts has been declining . At the same time , the number of rental units ...
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... adults gained a substantial amount of free time . Over that decade , there was an increase of nearly 4 hours a week in free time , from 34.8 to 38.5 hours . This increase is attributable chiefly to a decrease in the number of hours ...
... adults gained a substantial amount of free time . Over that decade , there was an increase of nearly 4 hours a week in free time , from 34.8 to 38.5 hours . This increase is attributable chiefly to a decrease in the number of hours ...
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... adults . More fundamentally , the purpose of schooling is broader than the teaching of basic " language skills " or computa- tional abilities . Our schools must , in addition , prepare young people for competent and informed ...
... adults . More fundamentally , the purpose of schooling is broader than the teaching of basic " language skills " or computa- tional abilities . Our schools must , in addition , prepare young people for competent and informed ...
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... adult Americans now have at least a high school education . In the 1970s alone , the proportion of the 25 - and - over ... adults with a least 1 year of college increased from 21 percent to 31 percent , while the share of those with 4 ...
... adult Americans now have at least a high school education . In the 1970s alone , the proportion of the 25 - and - over ... adults with a least 1 year of college increased from 21 percent to 31 percent , while the share of those with 4 ...
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adults Alan Cranston areas arts and humanities basic benefits Bernard Lefkowitz better Broward County budget Census changes child Children's Defense Fund Commission concern contribute costs Daniel Yankelovich decade decline effects elderly entitlement programs expectations factors families federal feel future Gallup Organization Goals for Americans growth rate Gwendolyn Brooks households housing income increasing individual inflation institutions Joan Ganz Cooney labor force Louis Harris majority Marian Wright Edelman ment millions of Americans nation's leaders needs Panel parents past percent percentage political polls population postwar President problems productivity public sector quality of American quality-of-life question rapid economic growth rapid growth realities recent relatively Research responsibility retirement role satisfaction schools sense of well-being slower growth social indicators Social Security society standard of living television tensions tion tional tradeoffs trends U.S. Department Washington Woodlands Conference workers Yankelovich young youth
Pasajes populares
Página 1 - The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Página 23 - If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Página 13 - Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
Página 100 - Would you say the government is pretty much run by a few big interests looking out for themselves or that it is run for the benefit of all the people?
Página 71 - We are unsettled to the very roots of our being. There isn'ta human relation, whether of parent and child, husband and wife, worker and employer, that doesn't move in a strange situation.
Página 18 - In the next 10 years we shall increase our wealth by 50 percent. The profound question is : Does this mean we will be 50 percent richer in a real sense, 50 percent better off, 50 percent happier? Or does it mean that in the year 1980 the President standing in this place will look back on a decade in which 70 percent of our people lived in metropolitan areas choked by traffic, suffocated by smog, poisoned...
Página 17 - Our real problems are also concealed from us by our current remarkable prosperity, which results in part from the production of arms that we do not expect to use, and in part from our new way of getting rich, which is to buy things from one another that we do not want at prices we cannot pay on terms we cannot meet because of advertising we do not believe.
Página 100 - How much of the time do you think you can trust the government in Washington to do what is right - just about always, most of the time, or only some of the time?
Página 135 - To put it more simply, the analysis shows that the executive agencies of the US Government are not now capable of presenting the President with internally consistent projections of world trends in population, resources, and the environment for the next two decades.