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  2. Small House Policy - Wikipedia

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    The Small House Policy has been in effect ever since 1972 to provide a once-in-a-lifetime small house grant for an indigenous villager who is "a male person at least 18 years old and is descended through the male line from a resident of 1898 of a recognized village (Ding, 丁) which is approved by the Director of Lands". [3]

  3. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005

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    Employment is to be provided within 5 km of an applicant's residence, and minimum legal wage under the law is to be paid. If work is not provided within 15 days of applying, applicants are entitled to an unemployment allowance. That is, if the government fails to provide employment, it has to provide certain unemployment allowances to those people.

  4. Hamlet (place) - Wikipedia

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    In Oregon, specifically in Clackamas County, a hamlet is a form of local government for small communities that allows the citizens therein to organize and co-ordinate community activities. Hamlets do not provide services, such as utilities or fire protection, and do not have the authority to levy taxes or fees.

  5. Employer Explains Why He Won't Hire The Unemployed - AOL

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    discrimination against unemployed hiring Some job ads explicitly require applicants to be "currently employed," and Americans who have been out of work for a year or longer report employers ...

  6. Underemployment - Wikipedia

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    This may be because of legal or social restrictions on firing and lay-offs (e.g. union rules requiring managers to make a case to fire a worker or spend time and money fighting the union) or because they are overhead workers, or because the work is highly seasonal (which is the case in accounting firms focusing on tax preparation, as well as ...

  7. Discouraged worker - Wikipedia

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    Discouraged Workers (US, 2004-09) In the United States, a discouraged worker is defined as a person not in the labor force who wants and is available for a job and who has looked for work sometime in the past 12 months (or since the end of his or her last job if a job was held within the past 12 months), but who is not currently looking because of real or perceived poor employment prospects.

  8. List of fictional settlements - Wikipedia

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    The city is sometimes called the City of Emeralds due to its extensively green architecture. Zion: The Matrix: Warner Brothers: Zion is a fictional city in The Matrix films. It is the last human city on the planet Earth after a cataclysmic nuclear war between humankind and sentient Machines, which resulted in artificial lifeforms dominating the ...

  9. Fire safety - Wikipedia

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    Fire safety equipment at a construction site in China Property loss caused by arson. Fire safety is the set of practices intended to reduce destruction caused by fire.Fire safety measures include those that are intended to prevent the ignition of an uncontrolled fire and those that are used to limit the spread and impact of a fire.