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Delancey Street Foundation Model for Welfare Reform
Submitted on 12.28.1998
A new study by the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI), a San Francisco-based think tank, says the nationally recognized Delancey Street Foundation should be used as a model for private sector welfare reform projects, which, according to the study, should replace current big government programs.
Study Shows Women Short-changed by Social Security
Submitted on 12.7.1998
San Francisco, CA – A new study by the Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI) shows that today’s social security system retains a paternalistic design that penalizes women of all ages.
How Courts are Trying to Gut Prop 209
Submitted by Lance T. Izumi, J.D. on 12.1.1998
What is the only thing harder than passing a landmark ballot initiative in California? Answer: Implementing it. Just look at the legal travails that have hampered the implementation of Proposition 209. Voters overwhelmingly approved the anti-race-and-gender-preference initiative and federal judges upheld it as constitutional. But state judges have been handing down opinions that block the law's full application.
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