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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- December 2013, Leonard Lardaro Dec 2013

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- December 2013, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- November 2013, Leonard Lardaro Nov 2013

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- November 2013, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- October 2013, Leonard Lardaro Oct 2013

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- October 2013, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Why Are So Many Americans On Food Stamps? The Role Of The Economy, Policy, And Demographics, James P. Ziliak Sep 2013

Why Are So Many Americans On Food Stamps? The Role Of The Economy, Policy, And Demographics, James P. Ziliak

University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research Discussion Paper Series

1 in 7 Americans received assistance from SNAP in FY2012, which is a rate 141 percent higher than in FY2000, but only 59 percent higher than in FY1980. In this chapter I describe the socioeconomic and policy climate in recent decades that had bearing on SNAP participation, along with a formal empirical analysis of those determinants and detailed simulations of the relative contributions of the economy, policy, and demographics to changes in SNAP participation over time. The results suggest that SNAP is operating effectively as an automatic fiscal stabilizer—nearly 50 percent of the increase in participation from 2007-2011 is due …


Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- September 2013, Leonard Lardaro Sep 2013

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- September 2013, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- August 2013, Leonard Lardaro Aug 2013

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- August 2013, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- July 2013, Leonard Lardaro Jul 2013

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- July 2013, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- June 2013, Leonard Lardaro Jun 2013

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- June 2013, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- May 2013, Leonard Lardaro May 2013

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- May 2013, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Economic Contribution Of Nonresident Travel Spending In Montana Travel Regions And Counties, Kara Grau May 2013

Economic Contribution Of Nonresident Travel Spending In Montana Travel Regions And Counties, Kara Grau

Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research Publications

This report displays the economic contributions of nonresident visitors to Montana during 2012. It is comprised of economic analyses for six Montana travel regions, as well as 15 of the 56 counties in the state.


Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- April 2013, Leonard Lardaro Apr 2013

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- April 2013, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- March 2013, Leonard Lardaro Mar 2013

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- March 2013, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- February 2013, Leonard Lardaro Feb 2013

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- February 2013, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

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Licensed To Care: Inhabiting The Transnational Economy Of "Global Pinoy", Fidel Taguinod Jan 2013

Licensed To Care: Inhabiting The Transnational Economy Of "Global Pinoy", Fidel Taguinod

Doctoral

The Philippines’ experience in international labour migration is widely considered a success – an observation endorsed by international bodies such as the World Health Organisation. As an active source of professional nurses to the developed world, the country continues to produce more nurses than the local nursing market can employ; a labour strategy that is promoted, facilitated and supported by the Philippine state and nursing educational system. This thesis interrogates Filipino nurse migration through the methodological prism of autoethnography, drawing on first-hand experience and reflexive accounts, interviews, photographs, policy documents and material cultural artefacts, to critically examine and challenge the …


Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- January 2013, Leonard Lardaro Jan 2013

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index -- January 2013, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

No abstract provided.