Essays on Vouchers

Choosing between public school and private school education is a nightmare for many students and their parents. It is not easy to make a choice since there are many matters to consider in this situation such as tuition fee, affordability, ease of access and quality of education. For the fortunate ones, money does not stand as an issue because, with better financial resources, it is easier for many students to get enrolled in a top academic quality school. But there are others who wish for an education with the easiest of means and this is where the debate between ...

Introduction

Milton Friedman was a renowned economist and a reputable advisor of the United President Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher who was a Conservative British Prime Minister. Friedman developed an influential and controversial manifesto on the role of the government in a free society on his work titled Capitalism and Freedom. His fundamental objective was to promote the laissez-faire economic policy by often disapproving the interventionist policies held by the government and their cost in economic efficiency and personal freedom within and outside the United States. It is with this light that Friedman provide his view on the significance of ...

Human Resource Management

Introduction Human Resource Management is responsible for attracting, selecting, recruiting, placing, recognizing, engaging, retaining and rewarding people while developing anticipated organizational culture and leadership, as well as, ensuring compliance with national and international labor and employment laws. Mostly, small to medium organizations manage their HRM activities by outsourcing their human resource functions to specialized HRM firms. Other hires few HR professionals. However, larger business corporations uphold an all-inclusive HRM functional division that is characteristically dedicated to the specialized tasks such as strategic recruitment and selection, employee engagement, and development of functional leadership across the business undertakings (Bratton & Gold, 2011, ...

Analysis Essay 2

Overview of the Server-Side and Client-side Hardware and Software Requirements of the Defense Travel system The Department of Defense has many systems that enable it to streamline the delivery of its mandate. One of the systems is the Defense Travel System. This is a system that was developed to help the Department of Defense streamline and provide automation to its travel processes, offer support in meeting the travel requirements, and also as a cost cutting measure. The automation provided by the Defense Travel System allows the officers in the Department of Defense to perform most of the administrative tasks ...

Career options in accounting

Accountants have various career paths that they can choose. The main options are public, industry and government accounting. In public accounting, the CPAs work for various firms ranging from small and local firms to large and international corporations. In the firms, the accountants work in areas such as tax, audit and management consulting. In industry and business, the accountants work for varied size firms in areas including, financial analysis, management accounting, financial accounting as well as reporting. With that, the accountants can offer services in specialized fields such as business valuation, financial forensics, IT consulting and financial planning. Also, ...

Electronic waste

Electronic waste is a general term used to refer to electronic products nearing their end of life cycle. These products comprise a wide array of devices. They include computers, laptops, television sets, VCR, stereos, fax machine and much more. However, there is some confusion regarding the proper definition of electronic waste. According to some people, devices such as old fridges, electric cookers, and microwaves do not comprise e-waste whereas, some consider these appliances as electronic wastes. When the devices and tools get discarded, individual components within them cause harm to both human health and the environment. These components include ...

Increasing Access and Use of Local Certified Farmers’ Markets:

Abstract The Supplemental Nutrition Program Women, Infants, and Children provides healthy foods, nutritional education and certain referral services to low-income pregnant and post-partum women, infants, and children up to age five. Groundbreaking modifications in 2009 added cash vouchers for fruits and vegetables to WIC’s approved foods list. While these vouchers are redeemable at local Certified Farmers’ Markets, research in California exposed specific barriers to WIC participants utilizing this option. Our proposal addresses the three main deterrents to redeeming vouchers at local farmers’ markets, including: (1) lack of transportation, CFM in close proximity or knowledge of CFM location, (2) ...

Introduction

It is common for an organization to fall into some predicament once in a while. The concept reveals itself by the aspect of organizations having contingency plans that leverage them in the case of an impromptu or ongoing scandals. I have always observed that companies have insurance covers for such incidences. Most of the problems that organizations are likely to encounter include organizational ethical dilemmas. Recently, one of the well-known fast food joint, Chipotle Mexican Grill, alias chipotle. Chipotle encompasses a chain of fast food restaurants. The chain is allegedly accused of breaching the food policy protocol regulations by ...

1) Facebook’s Unique Selling Proposition (USP) as an advertising and marketing platform is that it combines the objectives of reaching a large audience while ensuring that the people who are exposed to a brand’s communications are the intended target audience. Thus, by allocating marketing budgets for Facebook promotions is similar to Television advertising (the medium that is the most expensive, but also with the greatest audience reach), while costing comparatively less in terms of ROI, and instead of ensuring that an ad is seen by the largest number of people possible, Facebook ensures that the ‘right’ people, ...

Moving to Opportunity (MTO) experiment aimed at revealing if moving households to the areas with lower poverty rates will affect the future of children (Chetty, Hendren, and Katz 855). In order to generate the results, the researchers set a longitudinal experiment that involved 4,604 low-income families from several U.S. cities including Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York. The criteria for inclusion into the experiment were low income, availability of children, and residing in the public housing. The families were moved from 1994 to 1998 while a follow-up was conducted in 2012. The families were divided into ...