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Debt and deficits have become major issues in the post-financial-crisis world. National, state and local government budgets across the globe are under deep stress and their credit is deteriorating. In the United States, though, there was a federal budget surplus only a decade ago. By tracing the ballooning deficit over the past ten years, can we find a way back to a surplus?

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In a statement, Steve Gillan, general secretary of the POA, said: “This is a disgraceful decision. Prisons should not be run for the benefit of shareholders nor for profit.”

This statement sees the opening of a battle between business and society for the control of UK Prisons. Are there dangers in the corporatisation of prisoners as profit centres?

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This small article is a parable by a professor who is a leading UK expert in Affordable Housing and Housing Policy. A personal view, an idiosyncratic view but a view that tells in simple fashion a truth about the world we live in.

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Where do gangs receive their guns from? Some of the weaponry used on the streets of the UK is quite frightening, after all this is not the United States where any person who just lost their job and is suffering from deep depression can slip into a shop and pick up an automatic rifle. No, in the United Kingdom you cannot buy an M16 with ammunition on a street corner, unless you are in a drug dealing gang of course.

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India has an age old tradition of being peace loving country and this, it has depicted in all its activities and attitudes through the ages. But, with the growth of Science and Technology, the world has gone far ahead in using its knowledge of Science as an instrument of destruction. The movement of the world in its knowledge of Science has been thought provoking for the Indians also, and they have had to do some rethinking in the matter.

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