Then you would likely see the earnings cap for social security removed, meaning everyone would pay social security on their entire earnings, not just salary but entire income.
It will run as a social enterprise, meaning any profits will be put back into the community.
Inadequate social skills, meaning anything from abrasive to overly introverted, are the demise of many technically and intellectually brilliant people.
Having established modern architecture as the reality of contemporary life, he also reduced it to a set of rigid aesthetic rules stripped of its revolutionary social and technological meaning.
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One change Obama has proposed would tighten the adjustment for inflation of benefits such as Social Security, meaning annual increases for future recipients would grow at a slower pace.
The movie is superbly matter-of-fact in depicting subjects as different as the emotional cluelessness of proudly footloose teen-age boys, the level of ominous and explosive noise that the characters have learned to live with, the inability of well-meaning social workers to alter family traditions.
Advocates of corporate social responsibility meaning the explicit adoption by companies of economic, environmental and social goals, as opposed merely to making profits for the company's owners start with a basic failure to understand why capitalism works.
The streams from Gnip and DataSift can be combined with data from more specialised firms that try to extract meaning from social-media data.
Baby boomers who are taking early Social Security benefits (meaning before the age of 66) and still work at least part time, will see the amount they can earn without losing some of their Social Security checks frozen for 2010.
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And in doing so, it would consider reforms of both the tax system (code for raising the consumption tax to increase revenues) and the social security system (meaning, cutting benefits and services from unsustainable levels and increasing payments by retirees and other beneficiaries).
For such politicians, European diversity is a problem because it undermines the most advanced (meaning expensive) social models.
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On top of that, the cut in the payroll tax that funds Social Security will expire, meaning those same middle class families will get hit twice.
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They are from a conference I spoke at yesterday, a conference about how social media can influence the meaning and feel of organizational life (more on that conference in later posts).
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The string of measures was a strange mixture of well-meaning steps at social reform, half-baked schemes for quasi-socialist industrial planning, regulation to protect consumers, welfare programs to help the hardest hit, government support for the cartelization of industry, higher wages for some, lower wages for others, on the one hand government pump priming, on the other public economy.
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From the McKinsey Global Institute Study of November 2011, How social technologies are extending the organization, you can see that the organizations who say they are getting the most value (see their data in Exhibit 4) are those who are fully-networked , meaning those using social tools broadly across the organization internally, as well as externally with partners and customers.
An upcoming stunt puts well-meaning citizens of the social-media world in a quandary: Do they want to assist a worthy charity, or do they want celebrity tweeters to sit quietly and stop yammering for a little while?
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Without social justice, democracy has no meaning.
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On the entitlement side, the plan would make the Social Security system more progressive (meaning people who have earned more during their lifetimes get fewer benefits), and it would eventually raise the retirement age to 69 by 2050.
But Facebook continues to make changes to its platform, making it more difficult to acquire new players through free, viral channels, meaning Zynga and other social game companies need to spend more and more money in marketing to keep and acquire users.
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Research only has meaning when it helps transform social reality, when it contributes to the well-being of societies.
An example: the language of updating organizations with social media is fraught with peril, meaning that the thinking therefore is, too.
Social justice is what will give real meaning to our new creed.
We work because it gives us meaning and identity, and possibly social status, not just a paycheck.
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Precisely because body size has become a personal, social and political issue, the use and meaning of words to describe it is important.
An added perk to employment in Germany is that state employees are regarded as permanent workers, meaning that they are paid necessary social insurances.
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She says while the work of the Women's Council, churches and other social groups to curb forced prostitution is well meaning, she says too often the lines between voluntary and forced prostitution are blurred.
The recent romantic comedy "He's Just Not That Into You" had a character, Mary (Drew Barrymore), who boasts to a trio of colleagues that a potential paramour "Myspaced me, " meaning that he contacted her via the social network Myspace.
The Social Security Admnistration said it currently has a surplus, meaning it is receiving more from payroll taxes than it is paying out in benefits.
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But they reveal little understanding of the complex interest-group politics and broader meaning of Medicare in America, as a social insurance program, as a pillar of the liberal welfare state, as a force in the lives of millions of people.
Social scientists may, in turn, better understand the political meaning given to their research by policy-makers.
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