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Cost-shifting [1] is an economic situation where one individual, group, or government underpays for a service, resulting in another individual, group, or government ...
In reality, factory audits are primarily a paperwork exercise. Inspectors typically spend one day—two, tops—at each factory, mostly in the back office, checking time sheets for shift lengths, birth certificates for child labor, pay stubs for wages and overtime.
The world's richest man, who has 11 known children, said, "You won't be sorry. It'll work out." Pew surveys found a jump in the number of US adults who said they're not planning on having kids.
The drug was expensive to make, but the druggist was charging ten times what the drug cost him to produce. He paid $200 for the radium and charged $2,000 for a small dose of the drug. The sick woman's husband, Heinz, went to everyone he knew to borrow the money, but he could only get together about $1,000 which is half of what it cost.
Furthermore, the cost of raising a child tends to be quite high as a society industrializes and urbanizes. [51] [13] [25] Simply reviewing the full financial expense of having a child can shift a person's opinion on whether or not he or she should have one.
With the cost of child-rearing on the rise, it seems likely that a growing number of people will simply elect not to have children. This is, after all, the "me" generation, and lot of us are just ...
Intergenerational equity is also explored in environmental concerns, [5] including sustainable development, [6] and climate change. The continued depletion of natural resources that has occurred in the past century will likely be a significant burden for future generations.
"Think of the children" (also "What about the children?") is a cliché that evolved into a rhetorical tactic. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] In the literal sense, it refers to children's rights (as in discussions of child labor ).