And furthermore, if anyone willing to solve a social problem and change-making ideas were to receive the same type of support and boost.
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Today, boarded-up houses, graffiti, burned-out cars and a huge crime and anti-social behaviour problem have been replaced with sport's centres and libraries youth clubs.
Cornwall cabinet member for housing and planning, councillor Mark Kaczmarek, said: "Some of these properties have been empty for 10, 15 even 20 years and when these are in towns and villages they actually drag down the appearance of the town, they are subject to fire, vandalism, fly tipping and it creates a whole social problem, " he added.
Social investors share a different problem: They and their intermediaries have a hard time finding investees, because too many social entrepreneurs remain dependent on unreliable income sources and are unable to return funds with interest, or have strategies that may not benefit from investments (more on the dangerous promise of impact investments).
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As we argued in our first ESSAY on this subject, one of the surest roads to hyperinflation is one grounded in a government whose answer to every economic and social problem is to borrow and spend the problem away, supported by a central bank able, willing and ready to finance the effort simply by printing money.
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Could it be B2B marketers, like their B2C brethren and so many others, are still having a problem connecting the social media dots from engagement and interaction to sales?
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Sunyoung (Sonia) Park, the founder and launch director of Ashoka Korea, on how to integrate problem solving and social entrepreneurship into a broader society.
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For the free software movement, however, non-free software is a social problem, and the solution is to stop using it and move to free software.
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On a technical level is a BigData problem, a very complex social business one, and a value creating business service as well.
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And so listening to the song and knowing about that back history, you realized how much more poignant it is, in terms of her speaking, not just this sort of abuse and addiction, you know, as a social problem, but she's really speaking from her own experience as well.
Immediately following the panel, SAP, the UNFPA, and Ashoka collaborated together on a social InnoJam to put our collective time, creativity, problem solving, and, eventually, our money where our mouth is.
The intelligence in the ThingShapes can monitor for relevant business events, compare them to past results, and notify the industrial social network of people and other things about important events such as a quality problem, a machine failure, or a late order.
Entrepreneurs need only to learn from Project Gado and similar social enterprises by putting problem solving just a little bit ahead of market demands.
This is because I embrace many of his assumptions: voting is a collective action problem, and we should encourage social norms which solve collective action problems where privately rational decisions lead to bad outcomes.
The vast majority of these people do not have a "drug problem" and do not engage in anti social behaviour.
We are for a provision that destitution should not follow unemployment by reason of old age, and to that end we have accepted Social Security as a step toward meeting the problem.
It is a problem of funding but also of administration between health services and social services.
The report proposes an integrated response to the problem which sets marginalization within a wider framework for poverty reduction and social inclusion.
And I think the most important point to understand is that his position is the position held by many, and I would say most, credible economists that Social Security is not a contributor to our short- and medium-term deficit problem.
The second problem is that social media generates business, and reps will either leave a company which keeps them from building their book of business or they will go broke and quit.
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Against that backdrop, White House officials and some Republicans are arguing that the best way out of the impasse is to resume the search for a comprehensive deficit-cutting deal that gets to the core of the long-term problem through a rewrite of tax policy and a revamp of entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
Clinton and Obama did agree on one thing Tuesday night: that Social Security's financial situation is a problem, not a crisis.
Disturbed by the health, environmental and social implications (scavengers are regarded socially as untouchables), a sociologist and social reformer named Dr. Bindeshwar Pathak started an organization in the 1970s to address the problem.
"The women in the market had destroyed their skin with all this kind of beauty products, bleaching products, and so I saw the need for assisting them to reverse the process because otherwise it would become a social problem, " she said.
Now, a new breed of startups, like us at News360 plus Zite, Wavii, Prismatic, TrapIt and others, is trying to tackle this problem once more, armed with sophisticated linguistic tools, an accessible social graph and a whole new approach to making sense of news stories.
"Religion here isn't a social problem or an old-fashioned embarrassment, it's a wellspring of energy and a source of life-giving vision for how people should be regarded and treated, " he said.
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And the reason, when we talk about Social Security, even though it is not a driver, it is not the problem when we talk about our deficits, it does have long-term solvency issues that can be -- that can be addressed and we can strengthen the program.
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