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  2. Benefit corporation - Wikipedia

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    Shall publish annual Benefit Report in accordance with recognized third party standards for defining, reporting, and assessing social and environmental performance; Benefit Report delivered to: 1) all shareholders; and 2) public website with exclusion of proprietary data; Right of action. Only shareholders and directors have right of action

  3. Sustainable development - Wikipedia

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    Sustainability is a social goal for people to co-exist on Earth over a long period of time. Definitions of this term are disputed and have varied with literature, context, and time. [12] [11] Sustainability usually has three dimensions (or pillars): environmental, economic, and social. [11] Many definitions emphasize the environmental dimension.

  4. Humanitarian protection - Wikipedia

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    Humanitarian protection is the act of promoting and ensuring the legal rights of people affected by humanitarian crises. The concept of humanitarian protection was established by the 1949 Geneva Conventions and responsibility to ensure protection was mandated to the International Committee of the Red Cross. Outside of times of crises, national ...

  5. Social programs in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Transfer payments to (persons) as a percent of Federal revenue in the United States Welfare in America. The United States spends approximately $2.3 trillion on federal and state social programs including cash assistance, health insurance, food assistance, housing subsidies, energy and utilities subsidies, and education and childcare assistance.

  6. Social contract - Wikipedia

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    Social contract arguments typically are that individuals have consented, either explicitly or tacitly, to surrender some of their freedoms and submit to the authority (of the ruler, or to the decision of a majority) in exchange for protection of their remaining rights or maintenance of the social order.

  7. What Is Preventive Health and Why Is It Important?

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    Well-child visits: These visits happen every few months when your child is an infant, and yearly after that.Well-child visits include measurements of your child’s growth and developmental ...

  8. Social model of disability - Wikipedia

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    Following the UPIAS "social definition of disability", in 1983 the disabled academic Mike Oliver coined the phrase social model of disability in reference to these ideological developments. [14] Oliver focused on the idea of an individual model (of which the medical was a part) versus a social model, derived from the distinction originally made ...

  9. Environmental, social, and governance - Wikipedia

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    Moreover, the social pillar is difficult to measure because it relies on social aspects that are empirically limited and quantifiable, e.g. it refers to notions such as well-being, and discrimination which needs a deep understanding with a detailed analysis. To conclude, assessing the real effects of the social pillar is very tough. [70]