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From child care to inequality, welfare policy and equal rights, social policies determine the economic and social well-being of individuals and families. Brookings scholars explore how to design and implement social policies in order to reduce poverty, increase economic mobility and encourage responsibility and opportunity.
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May 8, 2013, Isabel V. Sawhill
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How would a crackdown backfire? Because it would produce, immediately in Colorado, and eventually in other states, an atomized, anarchic state legalized but unregulated marijuana market that federal drug enforcers lack the manpower to contain and lack the legal power to force the states to contain. May 8, 2013, Stuart S. Taylor, Jr., KCRW
How would a crackdown backfire? Because it would produce, immediately in Colorado, and eventually in other states, an atomized, anarchic state legalized but unregulated marijuana market that federal drug enforcers lack the manpower to contain and lack the legal power to force the states to contain.
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May 7, 2013, Ron Haskins and Cecilia Elena Rouse
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Often the major problem is that the governments aren't enforcing the labor laws and the safety standards and regulations that they've actually agreed to and the international agreements they've signed up to. May 2, 2013, Jane Nelson, National Public Radio
Often the major problem is that the governments aren't enforcing the labor laws and the safety standards and regulations that they've actually agreed to and the international agreements they've signed up to.
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April 2013, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers
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