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American Plan (carceral), a 1918 U.S. program to combat venereal diseases, implemented by the Chamberlain–Kahn Act; American Plan (union negotiations), a 1920s plan for refusing to negotiate with trades unions; The American Plan, a 2009 play by Richard Greenberg; American Plan, a term used by Sydney Brenner for a model of how brain cells ...
The American Plan is the term used to refer to open shop strategies pursued by employers in the United States in the 1920s. [1] The American Plan deemed unions to be "un-American," [ 2 ] and the resulting anti-union efforts of employers decreased union membership and efficacy until the 1930s. [ 3 ]
The American Plan was a 1918 US federal carceral program first instituted by the Chamberlain–Kahn Act, its stated goal was to fight venereal diseases. It legally sanctioned military, police and health officers to arrest any women 'suspected' of prostitution, force them to undergo invasive STI screenings, and jail them if positive.
The Graduated Random Presidential Primary System, also known as the California Plan or the American Plan, is a proposed system to reform the conduct of United States Presidential primary campaigns. Under this system the campaign period would be broken into ten two-week periods in which an escalating number of electoral votes would be contested.
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, also called the COVID-19 Stimulus Package or American Rescue Plan, is a US$1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill passed by the 117th United States Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11, 2021, to speed up the country's recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and recession. [1]
American Families Plan (AFP), a proposal to fund a variety of social policy initiatives, some of which (e.g., paid parental leave) had never before been enacted nationally in the U.S. [3] The first part was passed as the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 , and was signed into law in March 2021. [ 4 ]
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American Charles Francis Hall was the first to see northwest Greenland, during the Polaris Expedition, [5] and Robert Peary claimed much of the north. [6] When the United States wanted to purchase the Danish West Indies during World War I , Denmark required the country to recognize the Danish claim over the whole island.