Abstract: Due to the fact that they can be preserved for extended periods of time and are utilized in virtually all cuisines, wheat products most popular grains grow produce. Beyond current climate change impacts, closed national borders growing limits import-export throughout pandemic phase have caused governments question their ability produce enough food meet own needs short term. One object...

Globalization has brought about concerns of domestic job losses due to outsourcing countries like China. The ‘employment footprint’ concept provides new insights into the implications trade for employment. Using this approach period 1995–2008, we analyze relation US jobs with international trade, particularly Furthermore, compare employment footprint its labor endowment assess if country could ...

This issue brief highlights key facts about the impact of substance abuse on welfare reform and recipients of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, or TANF. After outlining some of the data on the incidence of substance abuse as well as its costs and treatment, it concludes by describing innovative state welfare programs attempting to lower barriers to employment and self-sufficiency.

Article 3.4 of EC directive 89/381 requires member states to take "all necessary measures to promote Community self-sufficiency in human blood or human plasma" and, for this purpose, to "encourage the voluntary unpaid donation of blood and plasma". This paper presents an ethical case in support of the policy of voluntary, unpaid donation.