Staying Competitive in the High-tech Global Economy: Another Look at the H-1B Visa

This paper addresses a specific suggestion for immigration reform—that we must seek skilled immigrants—by examining support for a move to unlimited H-1B visa issuance. Great care is taken to include up to date media coverage as immigration policy is greatly affected by public opinion. This paper outlines the historical precedent for looser restrictions on immigration and then reviews the current landscape of U.S. immigration and the H-1B visa market, showing the strong moral and economic support for a move to unlimited H-1B visa issuance.H-1B, visa, immigration, labor

Treading Water in the High-tech Global Economy: An Investigation of United States Immigration Policy with an Eye on the H-1B Visa

This paper addresses objections to immigration on the basis of their skill level—examining the historical results of United States immigration policy in an effort to support a move to unlimited H-1B visa issuance. Great care is taken to include up to date media coverage as immigration policy is greatly affected by public opinion. Not only does an historical precedent exist, but there is strong moral and economic support for a move to unlimited H-1B visa issuance.immigration, H-1B visa

Active Immunotherapy and Adoptive Cell Transfer as an Effective Cancer Treatment

There are many ways to fight cancer using the body’s own immune system. Some methods include the administration of vaccines while others involve stimulatory factors injected near tumors. One promising method is enlisting the help of T cells. To fight cancer effectively, T cells must be able to recognize cancerous antigens and the environment in which these T cells reside must be conducive to their function, survival, and proliferation. This paper discusses a method of providing such an environment called adoptive cell transfer, as well as the elements that effect this protocol and the ways in which the environment can be manipulated to increase the effectiveness of adoptive cell transfer. Many factors contribute to the observation that the effectiveness of adoptive cell transfer increases as immunodepletion increases, namely, the depletion of regulatory T cells. Additionally, the existence of natural killer cells during adoptive cell transfer has been shown to decrease its effectiveness. Also, increased levels of cytokines IL-7 and IL-15 enhance the function, survival and proliferation of transferred T cells which would increase their effectiveness. Moreover, the results of adoptive cell transfer are more positive when patients’ own T cells are used. These findings show that T cells can be used through adoptive cell transfer as an effective treatment for metastatic melanoma patients, and that there is potential for adoptive cell transfer to be adopted as a widespread effective treatment for cancer

Redefining the Monetary Agggregates: A Clean Sweep

This paper focuses on the role of sweep programs in properly measuring money. We propose new monetary aggregates that adjust the conventional measures to account for the medium of exchange capability of funds in sweep programs. Using data on swept funds in retail and commercial demand deposit (DD) sweep programs, we provide time series of monthly data on the sweep-adjusted money measures. By the twenty-first century, DD sweeps have led to distortion in reported MZM of approximately 3 percent, 5 percent for M2, and 6 percent for M2M. Underreporting of M1 due to retail and DD sweep programs is almost 70 percent.

Rising inequality is holding back the U.S. economy

Why has the U.S. economy been so sluggish to return to growth in the aftermath of the Great Recession of the late 2000s? In new research, Barry Z. Cynamon and Steven M. Fazzari find that the current level of household demand is more than 17 percent lower than its pre-recession trend, preventing a stronger recovery. They argue that in the lead up to the Great Recession, households compensated for rising inequality and stagnant wages by borrowing more, something that became unsustainable when the financial crisis hit. For the U.S. to achieve robust growth rates once again, the gap in demand that opened with the collapse of household spending in the Great Recession will have to be closed, preferably through wage growth across the board

Saneamento básico em pequenas cidades: contribuições do sanitarista Szachna Eliasz Cynamon para a promoção da saúde

The aim was to evaluate the participation of the private initiative in the sanitation sector in municipalities with less than 50 thousand inhabitants and the importance of the model of action of the Special Public Health Service - SESP and of the sanitation actions developed by the sanitary engineer Szachna Eliasz Cynamon in these localities. This is a documentary research with content analysis, exploratory analysis of secondary data and the Mann-Whitney test was used to verify if there are significant differences in the participation of the private sector in larger municipalities. Two videos available to the public of the seminar on the environment and health were examined, as well as indicators of water supply and sanitary sewage on open consultation sites, the sanitarist collection, books and articles on the subject and normative acts. According to the test (p-value<0.05), private companies predominantly operate in larger cities in Brazil, thus, according to the content analysis, the SESP performance model and the practices advocated by Cynamon would currently encourage, sanitation solutions that could lead to environments favorable to health and the desired universalization.Objetivou-se avaliar a participação da iniciativa privada no setor de saneamento em municípios com menos de 50 mil habitantes e a importância do modelo de atuação do Serviço Especial de Saúde Pública - SESP e das ações de saneamento desenvolvidas pelo engenheiro sanitarista Szachna Eliasz Cynamon nessas localidades. Trata-se de uma pesquisa documental com análise de conteúdo, análise exploratória de dados secundários e o teste de Mann-Whitney foi utilizado para verificar se há diferenças significativas na participação do setor privado em municípios maiores. Foram examinados dois vídeos disponíveis ao público do seminário sobre meio ambiente e saúde, além de indicadores de abastecimento de água e esgotamento sanitário em sítios abertos de consulta, o acervo do sanitarista, livros e artigos sobre o tema e os atos normativos. Segundo o teste (p-valor<0,05), as empresas privadas operam preponderantemente em cidades de maior porte no Brasil, assim, segundo a análise de conteúdo, o modelo de atuação do SESP e as práticas preconizadas por Cynamon fomentariam, na atualidade, soluções em saneamento que poderiam conduzir a ambientes favoráveis à saúde e à almejada universalização

Saneamento básico em pequenas cidades: contribuições do sanitarista Szachna Eliasz Cynamon para a promoção da saúde

The aim was to evaluate the participation of the private initiative in the sanitation sector in municipalities with less than 50 thousand inhabitants and the importance of the model of action of the Special Public Health Service - SESP and of the sanitation actions developed by the sanitary engineer Szachna Eliasz Cynamon in these localities. This is a documentary research with content analysis, exploratory analysis of secondary data and the Mann-Whitney test was used to verify if there are significant differences in the participation of the private sector in larger municipalities. Two videos available to the public of the seminar on the environment and health were examined, as well as indicators of water supply and sanitary sewage on open consultation sites, the sanitarist collection, books and articles on the subject and normative acts. According to the test (p-value<0.05), private companies predominantly operate in larger cities in Brazil, thus, according to the content analysis, the SESP performance model and the practices advocated by Cynamon would currently encourage, sanitation solutions that could lead to environments favorable to health and the desired universalization.Objetivou-se avaliar a participação da iniciativa privada no setor de saneamento em municípios com menos de 50 mil habitantes e a importância do modelo de atuação do Serviço Especial de Saúde Pública - SESP e das ações de saneamento desenvolvidas pelo engenheiro sanitarista Szachna Eliasz Cynamon nessas localidades. Trata-se de uma pesquisa documental com análise de conteúdo, análise exploratória de dados secundários e o teste de Mann-Whitney foi utilizado para verificar se há diferenças significativas na participação do setor privado em municípios maiores. Foram examinados dois vídeos disponíveis ao público do seminário sobre meio ambiente e saúde, além de indicadores de abastecimento de água e esgotamento sanitário em sítios abertos de consulta, o acervo do sanitarista, livros e artigos sobre o tema e os atos normativos. Segundo o teste (p-valor<0,05), as empresas privadas operam preponderantemente em cidades de maior porte no Brasil, assim, segundo a análise de conteúdo, o modelo de atuação do SESP e as práticas preconizadas por Cynamon fomentariam, na atualidade, soluções em saneamento que poderiam conduzir a ambientes favoráveis à saúde e à almejada universalização

Policies in health, sanitation, and education: trajectory of social participation in collective health

Marcos legais brasileiros abordam a participação social como eixo estruturante. Mas há a necessidade de se analisar até que ponto as políticas incorporam a participação social por meio da mobilização e se efetivamente potencializam o controle social. Esse é o objetivo deste artigo. Apresenta-se um panorama da participação social nas principais políticas públicas em saúde, saneamento e educação, a partir da Constituição Federal de 1988 até os dias de hoje. Como metodologia, é um estudo orientado pelo método qualitativo do tipo bibliográfico documental, por meio da análise de conteúdo dos marcos legais onde a participação social aparece. A partir deste estudo observou-se que as políticas públicas brasileiras avançaram na perspectiva do discurso sobre o controle social nas políticas públicas, mas ainda temos muito que avançar em termos da efetivação da mobilização para o controle social. O Programa de Educação Ambiental e Mobilização Social em Saneamento pode ser o ponto de partida para esse processo de efetivação da participação social.Brazilian legal frameworks have addressed social participation as a structural axis. However, there is a need to examine the extent to which such policies incorporate social participation through mobilization and if they effectively enhance social control. This is the purpose of this article. It presents an overview of social participation in major public policies in health, sanitation and education, from the Federal Constitution of 1988 until the present day. The methodology is a study guided by the qualitative method of bibliographical-documentary research, conducted through the content analysis of legal frameworks in which social participation appears. From this study, it was observed that the Brazilian public policies advanced concerning the discourse on social control in public policies, but we still have a long way to go in terms of effective mobilization for social control. The National Environmental Education and Social Mobilization for Sanitation Program can be the starting point for this process of realization of social participation