• In United States law, public accommodations are generally defined as facilities, whether publicly or privately owned, that are used by the public at large...
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    discrimination in employment, housing, and access to public accommodations. Many LGBTQ rights in the United States have been established by the United States Supreme...
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    The United States does not have an official language at the federal level, but the most commonly used language is English (specifically, American English)...
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    and funded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In 2020, there were one million public housing units. In 2022, about...
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  • The following is a list of events of the year 2024 in the United States, as well as predicted and scheduled events that have not yet occurred. With the...
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    (2011). "Involuntary servitude, public accommodations laws, and the legacy of Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States". Maryland Law Review. 71 (1)...
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    prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity in employment, housing, public accommodations, education, federally funded...
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    Incarceration in the United States is one of the primary means of punishment for crime in the United States. In 2021, over five million people were under...
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  • country has its own system of reasonable accommodations. The United Nations use this term in the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, saying...
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    In the United States, the number of homeless people on a given night in January 2023 was more than 650,000 according to the Department of Housing and...
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  • II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, religion, or national origin in public accommodations. This important...
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    Islam is the third-largest religion in the United States (1.34%), behind Christianity (67%) and Judaism (2.4%). The Association of Statisticians of American...
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    15 states had no segregation laws in effect. and only eighteen states had outlawed segregation in public accommodations. Of the remaining states, twenty...
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    The most recent comprehensive data on adult literacy in the United States come from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies...
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    The Republican Party, also known as the GOP (Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States. It is the second-oldest...
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    behavior may be prohibited. For example, public accommodations in the United States may not discriminate on the basis of "race, color, religion, or national...
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  • tax or lodging tax in the United States is a tax levied by states, cities or counties against travellers when they rent accommodations (a room, rooms, entire...
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    The Southern United States (sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South)...
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  • reflected in discriminatory laws, practices, and actions (including violence) against racial or ethnic groups, throughout the history of the United States. Since...
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  • on the basis of gender identity in employment; housing; public accommodations; education; federally funded programs; credit; and jury service. The Transgender...
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  • EAHCA or EHA, or Public Law (PL) 94-142) was enacted by the United States Congress in 1975, in response to discriminatory treatment by public educational agencies...
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  • In the United States, marriage and divorce fall under the jurisdiction of state governments, not the federal government. Although such matters are usually...
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    Sales taxes in the United States are taxes placed on the sale or lease of goods and services in the United States. Sales tax is governed at the state level...
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    The Reconstruction era was a period in United States history and Southern United States history that followed the American Civil War and was dominated...
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    leave (also known as family leave) is regulated in the United States by US labor law and state law. The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) requires...
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    The Episcopal Church (TEC), also officially the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (PECUSA), is a member church of the worldwide...
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    Obesity is common in the United States and is a major health issue associated with numerous diseases, specifically an increased risk of certain types of...
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    The United States Coast Guard (USCG) is the maritime security, search and rescue, and law enforcement service branch of the United States Armed Forces...
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