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Regulating Greenhouse Gases under the Clean Air Act
(2016-04-13)The earth continues to get hotter as a result of anthropogenic climate change and adverse effects will increase in frequency and severity for populations and economies across the United States. There is clear scientific ... -
Memorandum Recommending Expansion of Maryland Area Regional Commuter Train Service
(2016-04-19)This capstone is a memorandum for a Maryland Democratic legislator proposing a policy to expand Maryland Area Regional Commuter Train Service (MARC) weekend train service on MARC’s Camden and Brunswick Lines. The memorandum ... -
Payment for Environmental Services: Sustainable Development of Water Resources in Rwanda
(2016-04-19)Rwanda aims to become an environmentally sustainable middle-income country. The problem is how the country will implement projects that alleviate poverty without increasing environmental degradation, or alternately, implement ... -
The Business of Defense Acquisition Reform: A Policy Proposal for Incentives that will Promote Acquisition Decisions Based on Good Business Models
(2016-04-19)The United States continues to develop and deploy the best weapons systems in the world. However, these acquisition programs are often founded on poor business cases. Development of new acquisition programs based on poor ... -
Student Loan Debt and the Effects on the Broader Economy
(2016-04-20)This paper examines the student loan debt crisis that is bubbling up in America today. Many politicians have offered political solutions to the crisis, ranging from providing student loan debt relief for to allowing ... -
Amendment of Law of the People's Republic of China on the Prevention and Control of Atmospheric Pollution
(2016-04-20)China has suffered severe haze problem since 2013. The study shows that about 350,000 to 500,000 Chinese people die prematurely due to haze weather each year. 4,400 people are killed by haze weather every day and 1,600,000 ... -
Policy Recommendations to Protect and Grow the Community Banking Sector
(2016-04-20)The banking industry has contracted from over 18,000 institutions in the 1980s to just over six thousand banks today. Since 98 percent of banks have fewer than $10 billion in assets the overwhelming majority of industry ... -
"Made in Bangladesh": Improving Women's Health and Workplace Rights in the Factories of Multinational Corporations
(2016-04-20)Bangladesh’s garment industry was booming with little consideration for its workers until the 2013 Rana Plaza collapse confirmed global concerns about poor working conditions. Today, more than 3.2 million women workers, ... -
Support Needed to Establish Nonprofit Organization to Address the 3Rs
(2016-04-25)Every year in the U.S. tens of millions of animals are used and killed in experiments to test industrial chemicals, drugs, pesticides, cosmetics, food additives, and many other products. However, using animals to understand ... -
Paid Family Leave in the United States
(2016-04-27)This Capstone memorandum gives a background on economic trends in the latter half of the twentieth century to today that have changed the demographics of American families, including the rise of dual earner households and ... -
Disposing of Weapons-Grade Plutonium
(2016-04-28)A U.S. Department of Energy project to convert excess weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for commercial nuclear reactors to fulfill an international agreement with Russia is billions over budget and well over a decade behind ... -
Undoing Citizens United: A Call for an Amendment to Overturn Citizens United V FEC
(2016-04-28)The purpose of this proposal is to examine if overturning the Supreme Court’s Citizens United vs FEC ruling via a constitutional amendment would be a political win for Sen. Bernie Sanders. As Sen. Sanders seeks the Democratic ... -
Increasing the Oversight Role in the Usage of Public Funds in Kenya
(2016-04-29)The Corruption levels in Kenya are so pervasive, that the country’s president in 2016 referred to it as a national threat. From poor revenue recording, to unlawfully incurred expenditure and even funds that cannot be ... -
Contingent Convertible Capital: A New Capital Requirement to Solve 'Too Big to Fail'
(2016-04-29)The adoption of Basel III capital requirements has been championed as one of the primary means for addressing the ‘Too Big to Fail’ conundrum. However, many have argued that higher standards do not effectively solve the ... -
Affordable, High-Quality Child Care for All
(2016-04-29)The first years of a child’s life are a vital period of rapid cognitive, social and emotional development. For working families, high quality early child care is a necessity that provides young children with support that ... -
Issues and Answers for Managing Wild Horses and Burros
(2016-12)Under the authority of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is charged with the duty to protect and manage wild horses and burros and public land. As of March 1, 2016, ... -
Tackling the Obesity Epidemic: A Proposal to Enact a Federal Excise Tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages
(2016-12)Rising obesity rates in the United States are both a growing public health concern and an increasing burden on the U.S. economy, leading to higher expenditures on health care and disability insurance, decreased worker ... -
The Student Loan Repayment Crisis and Possible Resolution through the Use of an Automated Payroll Deduction System
(2016-12)Access to higher education has been a priority for the federal government for many years. In effort to advance this cause, the federal government offers students loans to individuals who would not be able to secure favorable ... -
Delinquent Scheduled Maintenance on Long-Life Vehicles
(2016-12)In 2014, an audit by the Postal Service’s Office of Inspector General found the current fleet of long-life vehicles can only meet the agency’s delivery needs through fiscal year 2017. With the next generation of vehicles ... -
Lowest Price Technically Acceptable Contracting: A "False Economy" in Complex Federal Information Technology Procurement
(2016-12)The inappropriate use, or overuse, of Lowest Price, Technically Acceptable (LPTA) procurements as a cost savings measure in federal acquisition offices can lead to failed projects if an exceptional solution is ignored in ...