Executive Summary Triangle Transit seeks to answer two related questions: • Are lower-income riders more likely than other riders to use a less efficient payment method that contributes to overpayment? • What ...

Policy Question: How should North Carolina’s Aging Network provide information and assistance services so that all older adults (and their caregivers) looking for long-term care receive appropriate guidance? Introduction: ...

Shale gas extraction in the United States has increased considerably over the last three years. President Obama and many Republican and Democratic members of Congress hail this increase as vital to energy security and a ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY One of the signature pieces of legislation passed under the Obama administration, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (hereafter referred to as “ACA”) is a vast expansion of the healthcare ...

The purpose of this paper is to determine the types of programs, partnerships and policies UNHCR should support to improve microcredit and microsavings for urban refugees in the informal economy. I set out to accomplish ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Policy Question Should the federal government modify the human resources requirement in the School Improvement Grant models to address the specific challenges facing rural high schools? Background The ...

Policy Question: What policy strategies should the government of the state of Oaxaca implement to adapt to climate change? The Mexican government and the international community have identified climate change as one ...

In 2009, 94 percent of the complaints (8,811 cases) received by the Sri Lankan Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) were registered by domestic workers overseas. At a minimum, 38 percent of these complaints (3,567 cases) ...