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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Migrant healthcare workers in Australia find themselves at the centre of three intersecting concerns, often presented as ‘crises’ in contemporary discourse: the ‘care crisis’, the ‘housing crisis’ and the ‘migration crisis.’ Yet their own perspectives on these issues are rarely foregrounded. This paper explores the role of homeownership in the
Leah Williams Veazey
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, 2002 Annual; 2002-; Title from cover screen (viewed Nov. 19, 2004).; "A brief summary of major state and local taxes in Ohio."; Vol.
Ohio. Dept. of Taxation.
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Housing as Asset‐Based Welfare in Australia: An Investigation Through a Consumption Lens
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Housing asset‐based welfare has long been a key component of Australia's social policy. This resonates with a parallel literature identifying a trade‐off between homeownership and the size of nations' welfare states, wherein owner‐occupiers in smaller welfare states tend to come to rely on housing wealth to meet many of their welfare needs ...
Gavin A. Wood +3 more
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Legal Control of Municipal Bodies’ Power to Levy Tax: An Indian Perspective
G-Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2014 This piece of research work tries to evaluate and exemplify the importance of the Constitutional scheme of levying the tax by the municipal local bodies for the purposes of the collection of taxes.
Fareed Ahmad Rafiqi, Towseef Ahmad
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PUTTING OUT THE FIRES: WILL HIGHER TAXES REDUCE YOUTH SMOKING? [PDF]
This paper re-examines the empirical support for predictions that proposed cigarette tax or price increases will substantially reduce youth smoking. Part of the support for these predictions comes from evidence that higher taxes reduce aggregate tobacco ...
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Improving access to legal services for Indigenous, migrant and refugee women is critical to addressing family violence. In this context, Family Dispute Resolution (FDR) has long been discussed as a solution for separating families. This paper presents key findings of a research evaluation of an Australian Government $8.37 million pilot project
Siobhan McDonnell, Alyson Wright
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This chapter provides an overview of key economic issues in the use of taxation as an instrument of environmental policy in the UK. It first reviews economic arguments for using taxes and other market mechanisms in environmental policy, discusses the ...
Don Fullerton +2 more
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Australia's Migration Strategy: An Effective Response to Migrant Worker Exploitation?
Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A series of publicised migrant worker injuries and deaths has drawn attention to the issue of migrant worker exploitation (MWE) in Australia. In response, the Australian Government has included ‘Tackling Worker Exploitation’ as a key area of its Migration Strategy which it introduced in 2023. However, it is unclear how effective the Strategy’s
Evelyn Dowling, Alexandra Ridgway
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TEXAS TAXES: A COMPARISON WITH OTHER STATES [PDF]
This document is part of an educational series on Texas taxes. State and local taxes in Texas are compared with those of the fifty states and the District of Columbia. Taxes are compared per capita and per $1,000 of personal income.
Stallmann, Judith I., Jones, Lonnie L.
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Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In Australia, governments fund Community Legal Centres (CLCs) as part of the legal assistance sector (LAS) to meet the ‘legal needs’ of people experiencing disadvantage who cannot afford private legal services. Persistent unmet demand for CLCs is well‐documented. As artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in private legal practice to
Catherine Hastings +2 more
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