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Federal Government: Increase and multi-year-stabilize the Community Health Center Fund (CHCF) and Section 330 grants – Make it easier for new community-governed clinics (especially in “primary care deserts”) to become FQHCs or “look-alikes.” Expand public / quasi-public insurance options that favor non-profits – Use standardized benefit designs and aggressive cost controls – Prefer or contract…
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Ensuring establishment and maintenance of primary, secondary, and tertiary care within easily reachable distance for all persons in cities, suburbs, and rural areas. Public, NGO, and private sector coordination to ensure all persons can avail appropriately needed healthcare and medications though government facilities, government health insurance systems, self-pay, and/or private health insurance – dependent on…
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Implementing standardized testing in math, science, civics, and history for all students at selected grades (e.g., 6, 10, and 12) for all students for progression to next level. Allocating a very relevant percent, such as 6%-9%, of the budget to education – education expenditures at national and local levels must ensure: maintenance of adequate and…
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Sufficiently extensive micro-loan and small-loan programs, from non-profit, for-profit, and government sectors with prudent policies and oversight. Facilitation by and support from government, non-profit sector, and academia – for development and dissemination knowledge transfer material – e.g., posters, quick-start guides, short-videos – that provide training and support to micro and small entrepreneurs to be successful…
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Implementing mandatory, but confidential, annual reporting by government officials of all income and assets acquirement and their sources. The completeness and accuracy of reported information should be adequately verified for at least a small random selection of the reports. Implement public complaint systems, operationalize, independent or semi-independent complaint review bodies, and ensure following of clear,…
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Religions did not come to be and occupy its place in society and the social psyche because of a few and simply identifiable reasons. Rather, like many other things, it is a resultant of the interaction between a multitude of factors, from the past to present. A main force driving the formulation of religion, religious…
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Religion, whether Islam, Hinduism, or any faith, can be a be a source of comfort, hope, inspiration, a calling for compassion and integrity, connection to a community with whom one can celebrate and on whom one can depend on, specially when facing uncertainties that are often around us. But when that is taken beyond the…
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Search through the quagmire of good and bad information that surround us and finding and learning from those information pieces that truly help protect and advance the principles associated with social progress. The quagmire of information surrounding us include Facebook posts, YouTube videos, internet pages, Information generated by artificial intelligence, books and novels, stories and…
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where it does not, as well as cannot easily be prevented from, hindering actions and activities that uphold and advance societal progress, including all the principles associated with that. where it does not, as well as cannot easily be prevented from, freezing or decelerating social mobility and the individual’s opportunity for economic advancement. where it…
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Different programs associated with wealth redistribution, such as progressive taxation and other mechanisms, are important and the appropriate forms of such programs depend on the particular circumstances. They must be fair and based on reason. In addition, its important to recognize that such programs will have limited and non-lasting effect unless they are supported by…
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Principles that uphold and advance social progress are those that good men and women agree upon and include integrity | fairness | justice | truth | compassion and care | egalitarianism | basic human rights | social responsibility | individual freedom | the pursuit of happiness | ensuring the basic needs of and dignified living…
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A question that naturally arises is how does someone know which information elements are true and which are false, what is real news and what is fake news, and, particularly, what upholds and advances social progress and what hinders it? In this regard, the question also arises as to how someone would know what actions…
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It is a known fact that unbridled capitalism leads to concentration of wealth, resources, and power in the hands of a few, exploitation of workers and producers, disenfranchisement and disempowerment of the populace, stifling of competition, increase in poverty, and widespread social malaise. Thus, over the past century, regulated capitalism has tapped the drivers of…
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There needs to be concerted and continuous efforts to encourage, support, and sustain the actions and activities of individuals and groups to create, express, and/or disseminate works of arts and culture (including visual arts, performing arts, literary arts, media arts) that uphold and advance the principles associated with social progress. Works of art and culture…
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A Short Story by: Anonymous Perhaps some bridges are held up as much by cables as by whispers Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, institutions, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. The RAV4 sped down the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway, the BQE as commonly known, cutting through quiet…
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As we all know, present day society is comprised of multitudes of various entities, including individuals, families, groups, organizations, institutions, academia, micro enterprises, small businesses, large corporations, non-profit establishments, artists, bureaucrats, government agencies, governments and nations, as well as many other types of bodies. Each of these entities engage in activities and carry out actions…
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Federalist Papers Explained – by 8 Minute Masterpieces – YouTube Video – YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/xlruDaly-kE?si=62HB2IORvMNgXP2K Randomized Controlled Trials, Development Economics and Policy Making in Developing Countries – PowerPoint Presentation – Esther Duflo (Joint work with Abhijit Banerjee and Michael Kremer) – available on the internet at: https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/394531465569503682-0050022016/original/EstherDufloPRESENTATION.pdf The dirty secret of capitalism — and a…
