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  2. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005

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    Status: In force. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act 2005 or MGNREGA, earlier known as the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act or NREGA, [3] is an Indian social welfare measure that aims to guarantee the ' right to work '. This act was passed on 23 August 2005 [1] and was implemented in February 2006 under the UPA ...

  3. SECURE Act - Wikipedia

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    The SECURE Act incentivizes employers to create 401 (k) plans and to expand access to their existing plans to more workers. One provision allows unrelated small employers to join together to establish a shared 401 (k) plan known as a Multiple Employer Plan (MEP). This allows small businesses to pool resources and mitigate the administrative ...

  4. Measuring poverty - Wikipedia

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    The NREGA is a demand-driven program, meaning that households must apply for work under the scheme. The government is then obligated to employ within 15 days of the application. The scheme offers a minimum wage for workers, set by the central government , and varies from state to state.

  5. Point estimation - Wikipedia

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    In statistics, point estimation involves the use of sample data to calculate a single value (known as a point estimate since it identifies a point in some parameter space) which is to serve as a "best guess" or "best estimate" of an unknown population parameter (for example, the population mean). More formally, it is the application of a point ...

  6. Bias of an estimator - Wikipedia

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    Bias of an estimator. In statistics, the bias of an estimator (or bias function) is the difference between this estimator 's expected value and the true value of the parameter being estimated. An estimator or decision rule with zero bias is called unbiased. In statistics, "bias" is an objective property of an estimator.

  7. Cost estimate - Wikipedia

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    Cost estimate. A cost estimate is the approximation of the cost of a program, project, or operation. The cost estimate is the product of the cost estimating process. The cost estimate has a single total value and may have identifiable component values. A problem with a cost overrun can be avoided with a credible, reliable, and accurate cost ...

  8. The 2025 Social Security COLA Forecast Just Decreased. Here's ...

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    Seniors should brace for a smaller 2025 COLA. Based on August's CPI-W reading, the nonpartisan Senior Citizens League is projecting that 2025's Social Security COLA will amount to 2.5%. This is a ...

  9. End-to-end encryption - Wikipedia

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    End-to-end encryption is intended to prevent data being read or secretly modified, other than by the true sender and recipient (s). The messages are encrypted by the sender but the third party does not have a means to decrypt them, and stores them encrypted. The recipients retrieve the encrypted data and decrypt it themselves.