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[1] [4] What is considered a ‘social service’ in a specific country is determined by its history, cultural norms, political system and economic status. [1] [4] The most central aspects of social services include education, health services, housing programs, and transport services. [7] Social services can be both communal and individually ...
The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...
Illustrations showing various icons of some popular social networking services. A social networking service (SNS), or social networking site, is a type of online social media platform which people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career content, interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections.
As of 2011, the public social spending-to-GDP ratio in the United States was below the OECD average. [7] Total Social Security and Medicare expenditures in 2013 were $1.3 trillion, 8.4% of the $16.3 trillion GNP (2013) and 37% of the total Federal expenditure budget of $3.684 trillion. [8] [9]
The government is not permitted to fire an employee based on the employee's speech if three criteria are met: the speech addresses a matter of public concern; the speech is not made pursuant to the employee's job duties, but rather the speech is made in the employee's capacity as a citizen; [47] and the damage inflicted on the government by the ...
Proponents of the bill say that nearly 2.8 million public service workers, including teachers, police officers and others in government, would be eligible for larger Social Security payments upon ...
The number of contacts on a social platform is sometimes considered an indicator of social capital. However, studies [90] [91] show it is rather an indicator of low self-esteem and of a form of social compensation. Indeed, people tend to add friends to compensate low self-esteem and there is a high correlation between the number of "friends" on ...
He thanked makeup artist Michael Marino, who designed Oswald Cobblepot’s look, as well as his "extraordinary" team. "All it took was three hours in the chair in the morning," Farrell explained.