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Trumps Ethics

POTUS ethical standards have reached an all-time low. They are lower than any of the American presidents elected over the past 50 years.

Some say Trump's ethics are lower than Richard Nixon's, and most folks know what happened to that Republican President.

Physician-assisted suicide: Research roundup

Source: JournalistsResource.org

Physician-assisted suicide is legal in only two U.S. states, yet requests to doctors for such help remain common across the country. As the 2012 PBS Frontline documentary “The Suicide Plan” notes, there is an “underground world” that has “added new layers of moral and legal complexity to one of the most polarizing issues in America.”

Credit conditions and trade during the global financial crisis

Source: JournalistsResource.org

International trade was one of the many victims of the 2009-2010 global financial crisis. World trade flows declined by up to 9% in 2009, a third more than the 6% drop in industrial output and three times the 2.5% decrease in per-capita income.  Countries with smaller economies suffered even more, with some showing a 30% decrease in the second half of 2008.

Public participation, procedural fairness and local governance

Source: JournalistsResource.org

Considerable research in the field of local governance has focused on how levels of public participation can influence perceptions about the fairness and justice of decisions by municipalities. Common occasions where such dynamics are on display in communities across America are town or city meetings at budgeting time.