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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... ment . . . . Affluence by itself does not guarantee the achievement of our goals as a nation . Because of the scar- city of resources , a large , rich , and powerful country can- not do all the things its people desire . Even the rich ...
... ment . . . . Affluence by itself does not guarantee the achievement of our goals as a nation . Because of the scar- city of resources , a large , rich , and powerful country can- not do all the things its people desire . Even the rich ...
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... ment specify not only what the government should do , but also what it should not do . The Constitution specifies that all functions not explicitly assigned to the federal govern- ment are reserved for the various states or for ...
... ment specify not only what the government should do , but also what it should not do . The Constitution specifies that all functions not explicitly assigned to the federal govern- ment are reserved for the various states or for ...
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... ment in the nation's health , housing , or income does not necessarily imply equivalent advances among the various ethnic or racial minorities . It is one thing , for example , to note that since 1960 there has been a substantial ...
... ment in the nation's health , housing , or income does not necessarily imply equivalent advances among the various ethnic or racial minorities . It is one thing , for example , to note that since 1960 there has been a substantial ...
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... problems in assessing how much free time most people have . There are govern- ment figures on the reported length of the workweek , but Personal Safety Leisure Time 27 22 not all occupations are covered , and overtime and "
... problems in assessing how much free time most people have . There are govern- ment figures on the reported length of the workweek , but Personal Safety Leisure Time 27 22 not all occupations are covered , and overtime and "
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... ment , personal recognition , or the pleasure derived from working with other people . As Albert Camus put it in his Notebooks : " Without work , all life goes rotten . But when work is soulless , life stifles and dies . " Clearly ...
... ment , personal recognition , or the pleasure derived from working with other people . As Albert Camus put it in his Notebooks : " Without work , all life goes rotten . But when work is soulless , life stifles and dies . " Clearly ...
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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.