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The Structure of the TANF Block Grant
White Paper One of the major changes in the sweeping welfare reform legislation of 1996 was replacing the federal guarantee of cash welfare to all qualified families - the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program - with a block grant that... [03 Jul 2008]
Improving Human Capital
White Paper However, many issues impact negatively on the ability of I/T/U's to provide education and training to employees, including decreased funding, remote locations, small numbers of staff, lack of available technology, such as satellite television, and... [03 Jul 2008]
The Innovation Centre of Excellence
White Paper The pressures of new and changing requirements, legislative mandates, required cost reductions and citizens demanding new or improved services, combined with the complexity of organizational structures and redu ced funding, are forcing the... [03 Jul 2008]
Wage Growth, Human Capital and Risk-Aversion: An International Comparison
White Paper Moreover, factors which affect an individual's decision to invest in education are of particular interest to policy-makers especially in the current climate of reforms to higher education funding. The relationship between wages and human capital... [03 Jul 2008]
International/Global Intellectual Property Theft: Links to Terrorism and Terrorist Organizations
White Paper The paper provides specific examples of the links and further details how terrorists could use intellectual property crimes not only as a source of funding, but also as a means of attack. This white paper helps to identify the extent of the... [03 Jul 2008]
County of Santa Clara Improves the Quality of Social Services With Simplified IT Management
White Paper As a result, a series of quarterly performance reports are produced on all the agency's operations - including IT - that can influence future State and Federal funding. With diminishing resources and increased demand for transparency, the County... [03 Jul 2008]
National GIS Survey Results: 2003 Survey on the Use of GIS Technology in Local Governments
White Paper The biggest barrier is funding. Local governments around the world are leveraging their information technology (IT) investments by integrating mapping and geographic information system (GIS) technology. [03 Jul 2008]
Discussion Paper: Background on Charitable Choice and Welfare Reform
White Paper However, the amount of government funding involved is relatively small and the majority of states have not yet taken advantage of the opportunity to involve religious groups in the welfare reform effort. [03 Jul 2008]
Securing Arizona: A Roadmap for Arizona Homeland Security
White Paper This strategy will also provide the framework for system planning, future technology acquisitions, and prioritizing and coordinating requests for state and federal funding. The State of Arizona has developed this plan of action for establishing a... [03 Jul 2008]
Image Pre-Processing on the DNA VQG4/VQ750
White Paper This is a multi-processor platform based on the Power PC, and supported by an optimized version of the Vector Signal and Image Processing Library (VSIPL), originally defined under DARPA funding. Computational demands of real-time image processing... [03 Jul 2008]
Cisco Systems and RFID Technology
White Paper Most deployments are in the pilot phase now, with companies learning about and preparing to use this technology and planning to face the funding issues and business process changes that it will bring. [03 Jul 2008]
APCO International Homeland Security White Paper
White Paper It will also require significant funding to upgrade and prepare America's current public safety infrastructure. The purpose of this white paper is to begin a process that leads to dramatically improving America's Homeland Security by improving... [03 Jul 2008]
History of Firewalls
White Paper Although firewalls received initial funding and research by the United States Department of Defense, the private sector quickly became the primary source of their development. The original term “firewall” referred to a physical barrier used to slow... [03 Jul 2008]
Regione Lazio Delivers e-government in 60 days with IBM eServer zSeries running Linux
White Paper To secure funding for the project from the Italian government, and to satisfy other constraints, they had only two months to ready the Web site for online transactions and demonstrate the portal’s capabilities. [03 Jul 2008]
Venture Financing in Japan
White Paper Working from the comments elicited by that research and the observations of others closely involved with venture companies, let's look at the funding available for high-risk ventures at each stage in their life cycle -- from seeding to the early... [03 Jul 2008]
