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Marriage And Family Life In Nevada, Stephen M. Wilson, Jeanne Hilton
Marriage And Family Life In Nevada, Stephen M. Wilson, Jeanne Hilton
Social Health of Nevada Reports
For almost twenty years, Nevada has been the fastest growing state in the country. Much of this growth is due to numerous immigrant and retiree families moving in every day, creating unique challenges to the state. On the other hand, Nevada ’s families, like families in the rest of the United States , are changing in predictable ways. Over the last century, families have become smaller and more diverse. Today, families are not only smaller, but they move more often, have more family members living into old age, enjoy better health, and have more education and wealth than has been …
Environment And The Quality Of Life In Nevada, Robert Futrell
Environment And The Quality Of Life In Nevada, Robert Futrell
Social Health of Nevada Reports
When the first environmental decade was launched in the U.S. more than thirty years ago with the inaugural Earth Day, protecting our air, water, land and other natural resources seemed a relatively simple task. Environmental polluters and exploiters would be brought to heel by tough laws. The U.S. and other industrialized nations responded to quality of life concerns associated with the degradation of the natural environment by adopting dozens of major environmental and resource policies and creating new institutions such as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to manage environmental programs. With a sense of urgency Congress passed the Clean Air …
Conclusion: Social Capital And The Quality Of Life In Nevada, Craig Walton
Conclusion: Social Capital And The Quality Of Life In Nevada, Craig Walton
Social Health of Nevada Reports
Our contributors have presented data and analyses which bring up questions Nevadans need to raise when they talk about the kind of home we want Nevada to be. We must take seriously their findings, their recommendations, and their pleas for help. These social indicators must be re-visited periodically. We make a beginning today, but we need to sustain public discussion of these problems of poor social capital in our home town and home state. Aristotle mentioned that a large number of people in one place does not make a community – practices, customs, institutions, and a shared moral culture change …