.... on the sex and age of the family head, and on weather they live in rural or urban areas. Based on past surveys, the designers of the poverty index determined that families of three or more person spend approximately one-third of their income on food. Thus, the poverty level for these families was, therefore, set at three times the cost of the economy food plan. For smaller families and persons living alone, the cost of the economy food plan was multiplied by higher factors in order to compensate for the larger fixed expenses of smaller households. The poverty thresholds are updated every year to reflect changes in the consumer price inde .....

.... its profits is the only social responsibility of a business. I totally disagree with Friedman because, simply put, he is wrong. The following are some of the arguments he has put forth: 1. Interacting with the community will help the firm in the long run by attracting desirable employees. 2. Corporate charitable contributions can be deducted for income tax purposes. 3. Corporations are spending the money of their stockholders without their permission. 4. A manager is responsible only to his employers and not the community. All of the above may sound bad, but the intentions behind them are not entirely falsified. It would be selfis .....

.... Reducing the taxes would also motivate people to work harder and save more. The way things are now people can not seem to get ahead no matter how hard they work. The harder they work the more the government takes while others who choose not to work hard or have not developed the skills to earn a decent wage reap the same and in many cases more benefits. For example student loans and grants for college board and tuition fees are largely unavailable to lower middle class families let alone middle and upper middle class people. Reducing taxes on businesses would also allow them to invert more on new product development and rese .....

.... historical periods. The Japanese government would focus its tax incentive programs, subsidies, and R&D on what it saw as emerging industries. During the Meiji period Japan focused it's attention on emulating western technology such as trains, steel production, and textiles. The Meiji leaders took taxes levied on agriculture to fund the development of these new industries. Following World War II Japanese industries used this same strategic industrial policy to develop the high-tech, steel, and car industries that Japan is known for today. Some American industries are currently heavily supported by the government through subsidies and tax bre .....

.... it was IBM's background as a supplier of integrated data-processing systems that gave it a unique advantage over its competitors. As Frank Cary, a future president of IBM put it shortly after the release of System/360, "We don't sell a product…we sell solutions to problems." And this is exactly what they did. Often times, software would be custom tailored for a particular business's needs. IBM's greatest advantage, however, was its reputation as a service-oriented vendor. Recognizing the importance of training, the company set up programming courses to train users and established field-engineering teams to resolve problems on-si .....

.... required to keep less money, and so more money is put out into circulation(theoretically). If it is raised, then banks may have to collect on some loans to meet the new reserve requirement. The tool known as open market operations influences money and credit operations by buying and selling of government securities on the open market. This is used to control overall money supply. If the Fed believes there is not enough money in circulation, then they will buy the securities from member banks. If the Fed believes there is too much money in the economy, they will sell the securities back to the banks. Because it is easier to make gradual chang .....

.... my service comes in to play. A service that is there for the computer novice, a strong, knowledgeable voice just a phone call away, soothing the anxieties, relieving the pressures of ignorance. Target Market A geographic approach for my business would be the most feasible. I'm concerned with anyone that now owns, plans to own, or is reluctant to own because of their fear due to lack of knowledge. As a test area, I would keep my business in the immediate vicinity. The Battle Creek/Kalamazoo area would be my start up point. Although computer sales have increased considerably due to the drastic drop in prices and at the same time the .....

.... prices and make the profit margins go up. The profit margins make up for the lost income and balance out that particular company, but everyone else must suffer the consequences. In the business world; the more they produce, the less they can sell for; the less they produce, the more they sell the product for. Profit margins can have a direct impact on the consumer. The more an item cost, the less a consumer will want to purchase that particular good. Higher profit margins may be able to balance a company's budget, but unless their product is in very high demand, most people will want to buy the product. The lack of people purc .....

.... portion of the employee's paycheck is put toward his or her retirement. What some companies prefer to do in order to make the 401(k) plan more attractive for employees, is to match each employee's investment in the plan by a certain percent. Here is where the problem comes in. Though some companies match contributors either with cash or with a direct credit to the plan, other companies match with corporate stock. According to Richard Sasanow, a former assistant of public communications at Ernst and Young, "many experts consider this to be one of the riskiest investments for a 401 (k)-but may be worth it if you think your company ha .....

.... of their investment opinions from their firms analyst. Not that analysts are bad but they usually change their opinion on a company the day after a company releases good or bad earnings, in other words their recommendations come about one day late. A more informed or confident stock trader may call the company and ask them to send a quarterly report so they can look over the company's financial figures, and find out who holds most of the stock. If a large portion of the company is held institutionally, bad news can hurt the stock dramatically because institutions tend to sell at the first sign of weakness, which might be 50% of the outstan .....