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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... individuals rather than on institutions . The Panel's work has been guided by the premise that our achievements as a nation cannot be reckoned solely in terms of superior power , wealth , and technology . The policies of the next decade ...
... individuals rather than on institutions . The Panel's work has been guided by the premise that our achievements as a nation cannot be reckoned solely in terms of superior power , wealth , and technology . The policies of the next decade ...
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... individuals who thought that the next year would be worse was higher than the number who thought it would be better - 55 percent compared to 33 percent . ' In addition , the percentage of people who feel a great deal of confidence in ...
... individuals who thought that the next year would be worse was higher than the number who thought it would be better - 55 percent compared to 33 percent . ' In addition , the percentage of people who feel a great deal of confidence in ...
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... individual and social well - being are still relatively undeveloped . Perhaps we cannot hope to do much more than to ask the right questions . But even that modest goal is well worth ac- complishing , for in doing so we may be able to ...
... individual and social well - being are still relatively undeveloped . Perhaps we cannot hope to do much more than to ask the right questions . But even that modest goal is well worth ac- complishing , for in doing so we may be able to ...
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... individual citizens . The question of what the governmental role should be regarding quality - of - life objectives is one to which we will return in later chapters of this report . First , we shall define our terms and describe recent ...
... individual citizens . The question of what the governmental role should be regarding quality - of - life objectives is one to which we will return in later chapters of this report . First , we shall define our terms and describe recent ...
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... individual and collective well - being . A second reason for developing better social reporting procedures is that it would make certain concerns more visible , thus providing a more sensitive barometer of prob- lematic trends and ...
... individual and collective well - being . A second reason for developing better social reporting procedures is that it would make certain concerns more visible , thus providing a more sensitive barometer of prob- lematic trends and ...
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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
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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.