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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... whole . In recent years , however , Americans have become in- creasingly pessimistic about the future . Many people now have a sense of foreboding and a new concern for preserving 5 what they have . A Gallup poll taken in August.
... whole . In recent years , however , Americans have become in- creasingly pessimistic about the future . Many people now have a sense of foreboding and a new concern for preserving 5 what they have . A Gallup poll taken in August.
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... poverty , America had indeed become an affluent society , in which many people began to concern themselves with the " higher needs , " with being , growing , and relating . 10 While economic motives and maintaining a high stan- dard of.
... poverty , America had indeed become an affluent society , in which many people began to concern themselves with the " higher needs , " with being , growing , and relating . 10 While economic motives and maintaining a high stan- dard of.
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... become increasingly common . There seems to be a rather widespread realization that increases in our wealth do not necessarily contribute to our sense of well - being . A rising standard of living has not been accom- panied by feelings ...
... become increasingly common . There seems to be a rather widespread realization that increases in our wealth do not necessarily contribute to our sense of well - being . A rising standard of living has not been accom- panied by feelings ...
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... become evident in recent years . Even in an area of conspicuous national accomplishment such as education , it appears that individual expectations outstrip accomplish- ments . And , as a result of those unmet expectations , there is ...
... become evident in recent years . Even in an area of conspicuous national accomplishment such as education , it appears that individual expectations outstrip accomplish- ments . And , as a result of those unmet expectations , there is ...
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... become rampant ; that the younger generation in particular was engaging in a sullen rebellion in the workplace . While recent surveys have demonstrated that younger workers have somewhat different expectations , the most reliable ...
... become rampant ; that the younger generation in particular was engaging in a sullen rebellion in the workplace . While recent surveys have demonstrated that younger workers have somewhat different expectations , the most reliable ...
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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.