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In 2021, in Boulder, Colorado, the first official online petition system was used to get an initiative on the ballot, with no circulators involved at petitions.bouldercolorado.gov. The voters of the city of Boulder approved a charter amendment allowing online petitioning by a vote of 71% to 29% in 2018. [3]
The economic history of the United States spans the colonial era through the 21st century. The initial settlements depended on agriculture and hunting/trapping, later adding international trade, manufacturing, and finally, services, to the point where agriculture represented less than 2% of GDP .
Tariffs have historically served a key role in the trade policy of the United States.Their purpose was to generate revenue for the federal government and to allow for import substitution industrialization (industrialization of a nation by replacing imports with domestic production) by acting as a protective barrier around infant industries. [1]
He wins two Pulitzer Prizes for his conservative interpretation of economic and political news. [52] Conservatives try economic populism to appeal to blue collar workers forced to join labor unions. The GOP pushes "right-to-work" laws in California and elsewhere, but the unions counter-organize for the Democrats. Conservatives try again in 2011.
Some of the different forms of protests and/or civil disobedience employed included economic boycotts, as successfully practiced by the Montgomery bus boycott (1955–1956) in Alabama which gave the movement one of its more famous icons in Rosa Parks; "sit-ins", as demonstrated by two influential events, the Greensboro sit-in (1960) in North ...
Money supply in the economy boomed during the pandemic which may have been a key reason for heightened inflation, according to Christopher J. Neely, Senior Economic Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve ...
The American heritage history of American business & industry, (ISBN 0070011567) (1972), very well illustrated; Ingham, John N. Biographical Dictionary of American Business Leaders (4 vol. 1983); 2014pp; scholarly essays covering 1159 major business leaders excerpt v. 2. Ingham, John N. and Lynne Feldman.
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