Expanding Health-Care Access in the United States: Gender and the Patchwork 'Universalism' of the Affordable Care Act

This paper focuses on the ways in which women in the United States are impacted by the 2010 passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (usually referred to as ACA or 'Obamacare'). The ACA's three main goals of expanding access, increasing consumer protections and reducing costs while increasing quality of services will improve coverage, access to services and types of services that benefit women (and men). However, universal coverage remains illusive due to employer-based insurance coverage that allows firms to make decisions about coverage type. This patchwork universalism is the result of political decisions to extend rather than transform the current health-care system and as such reproduces many of the previously existing problems of uneven costs and coverage. The paper argues the ACA is consistent with other sets of US social welfare and labour market regimes that stratify access to social protections by income, race/ethnicity and gender as well as provide individual states with administrative and policy authority. The paper concludes that the passage of ACA will vastly improve health-care coverage in the United States, however, will continue to leave millions of people uninsured. This paper was produced for UN Women's flagship report Progress of the World's Women 2015-2016 and is released as part of the UN Women discussion paper series

Bridging the Gaps: A Picture of How Work Supports Work in Ten States

This report is the culmination of a multi-state study on the extent to which work supports-policies to ensure families can access basics, such as health care, child care, food and housing-fill in the gaps for families whose jobs offer low wages or inadequate benefits

Dirección y Organización de Empresas

Mi trabajo parte de la creación de una empresa que ofrece servicios de telecomunicaciones como internet, telefonía y televisión. Para alcanzar sus objetivos y conseguir un buen posicionamiento se tiene que formular una buena estrategia. Para ello se hace un análisis estratégico, tanto interno como externo empleando las cinco fuerzas de Porter y terminando con un análisis DAFO

Bendala Galán, M. (2015): “Hijos del Rayo”. Los Barca y el dominio cartaginés en Hispania [Reseña]

Bendala Galán, M. (2015): “Hijos del Rayo”. Los Barca y el dominio cartaginés en Hispania. Madrid, Trébede Ediciones S.L., 376 pp. ISBN: 978-84-940640-3-6

The bay of Cádiz within the context of the punic world: ethnic and political aspects

Analizamos a partir de los datos literarios griegos y latinos y de la documentación arqueológica la complejidad étnica y política del entorno de la bahía de Cádiz, con la ciudad de Gadir como protagonista. Proponemos que la colonización fenicia y los fenómenos de mestizaje y aculturación con las poblaciones locales de esta área configuraron un sustrato demográfico y cultural mestizo con zonas de predominio fenicio, como el entorno de la bahía, y otras de mayoría tartesia- turdetana conviviendo con comunidades fenicias. La literatura posterior a la conquista romana (Estrabón, Mela, Plinio, Ptolomeo) denominó a las poblaciones de origen semita con el étnico bastetano o bástulo, habitantes del litoral atlántico y mediterráneo de la actual Andalucía, y diferenciadas étnicamente de las turdetanas. En lo que se refiere a los aspectos políticos, sugerimos una delimitación territorial de Gadir centrada en el territorio insular y en litoral de la bahía, fronteriza con dos formaciones estatales como Asta Regia y Asido, y sometemos a crítica el concepto de “liga púnico-gaditana” por el cual Gadir se erige con el liderazgo de las antiguas colonias fenicias de Iberia. En nuestra opinión, ese papel lo adquiriría la ciudad tras la conquista romana.Using data from Greek and Roman texts and from the archaeological record, we analyse the ethnic and political complexity of the bay of Cadiz, with particular emphasis on the city of Gadir. We suggest that the Phoenician colonisation and the phenomena of mixture and acculturation of the local populations of this area shaped a demographic and cultural basis with areas of Phoenician dominance, for instance in the area of the bay, and others of tartessian-turdetanian majority that coexisted with Phoenician communities. The literature after the Roman conquest (Strabo, Mela, Pliny, Ptolemy) named Bastetanians the populations of Semitic origin living in the Atlantic and Mediterranean littoral of present-day Andalusia (Spain) which were ethnically different from the Turdetanians. In relation with political issues, we suggest a delimitation of the territory of Gadir, in the insular area and littoral of the bay, which acted as a frontier with the state formations of Asta Regia and Asido. We critique the concept of the “gaditanian-punic league” in which Gadir would have led the ancient Phoenician colonies of Iberia. In our opinion, the city would only have acquired that role after the Roman conquest.España. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia HUM-2005-0782

Los púnicos en Iberia y la historiografía grecolatina

Proponemos una ordenación e interpretación de los testimonios grecolatinos relativos a los pobladores de las costas meridionales de Iberia y a su relación con Cartago. Centran nuestra atención los cambios introducidos en la etnonimia a lo largo de este período historiográfico

Poverty in the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community

This report undertakes the first analysis of the poor and low-income lesbian, gay, and bisexual population. We find clear evidence that poverty is at least as common in the LGB population as among heterosexual people and their families

La religión púnica en Iberia: lugares de culto

El objetivo que pretendemos en estas páginas es exponer qué yacimientos arqueológicos de la Península Ibérica han sido identificados como santuarios y lugares de culto púnicos, y cuáles son sus características geográficas, sus fases de utilización, los cultos celebrados en ellos, la deidad o deidades adoradas y la contrastación, cuando la hubiere, de la evidencia arqueológica con los testimonios literarios grecolatinos.In this paper, all those archaeological sites located in the Iberian Peninsula that have been interpreted as sanctuaries and cult sites of Punic age are identified and listed. Secondly, their main characteristics such as geographic features, utilisation phases and main deities worshiped are described, with a reference to written testimonies when available