These include an aging population, a financial system that badly needs restructuring, and deregualtion of industries that other developed nations addressed long ago.
Of the total inmate population in the federal system, over 40, 000 inmates are categorized as community custody, which means they can, and do, work outside of the prison.
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Before us are four headwinds too tough to overcome: debt, economic inequality, an aging population and a flawed education system.
Paul, Minnesota installed an early signal preemption system, it reduced emergency vehicle crashes by more than 50%, despite population-fueled congestion in the years following the system's installation.
Paul, Minn. installed an early signal preemption system, it reduced emergency vehicle crashes by more than 50%, despite population-fueled congestion in the years following the system's installation.
One study has suggested that the tax system alone reduces the population density in urban areas by 15%.
This, the inevitable result of a pay-as-you-go system in an ageing population, is the cause of the programme's long-term financial problems.
Perhaps the biggest obstacle to the buy-local movement, said Yonkers, is our nation's deep reliance on an industrial agricultural system, and a population accustomed to having all types of food available at all times, no matter what the season.
As the middle class "opts out" of Medicare because the premiums keep rising, a larger portion of the population enters a market-based system with even more incentives for ever cheaper early detection until the technology gets cheap enough to be adopted universally, across the income spectrum.
But it believes automobile companies will have to integrate themselves into a transportation system for a high-population, low-emission future.
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"It's a broken system for part of the population, " Jaffe says.
"For offenses that take place in a country in which we operate alongside the civilian population, it is critical that our system of military justice be efficient, fair, dependable and credible, " he added.
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By 2011 more than 90% of the population is meant to be covered by the system.
Demographic changes, including an ageing population, are putting more demand on the system.
Greece has an aging population and the need to restructure the social system to contain welfare costs has gone beyond critical.
The Cleveland Clinic health system is located in a shrinking population center.
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After all, there is going to be some unfairness in a system that has only half the population getting a four-year degree.
But KWF used the example of Belgium, where only 2% of the population opted-out of a presumed consent system and said it proved a "great success" with donor rates increasing by 55% in the first five years.
"The rise in admissions speaks to the overall burden that this population is going to have in our medical system in the future, " said Dr. O'Leary, lead author of the report, which was published online Thursday by the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The Congressional Research Service, which recently published a paper on the federal prison population, details the fragile state of our prison system.
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The bear's name comes from the system of identifying bears from that Italian population, with M standing for males and F for females, said WWF spokesman Philip Gehri.
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In addition, it is asking for London to be taken out of the grant system as it says the needs and population of London distorts the funding equation because of the way deprivation is measured.
Finally, we have chosen a health care system that cares for only part of our population.
Indeed, it will have countless unpalatable budgetary decisions to make, not least making the social security system affordable given Japan's rapidly aging population.
Clearwire is not building a nationwide system but will focus on large communities with population density where the bulk of the demand is centered.
The BMA in Scotland renewed calls for an "opt-out" system, arguing that 90% of the population support organ donation, yet only 40% have signed up.
It will introduce a child allowance, cut road tolls and taxes on small businesses, raise unemployment benefits, support farmers' incomes and revamp a pension system that cannot keep up with an ageing population.
It ignores both the capacity of a given area to accommodate population sustainably and the very great success of the planning system in ensuring that people wish to live in all parts of the country.
We should go for a more preventative approach if we want to improve the population's health, rather than just the medical care system.
Applications for disability benefits are rising sharply because of high unemployment, an aging population and a combination of mismanagement and potential fraud within the system.
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