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Prop. 209 back in spotlight
By: Sally C. Pipes on 9.30.2010
The November elections have been dominating the news, obscuring a story of great interest to those who find little merit in most government policies on women’s or gender issues. Sometimes, however, a government measure can have a positive effect. That even holds true in, of all places, California.
Much ado about individual ethnicity
By: Tibor Machan on 8.27.2007
A young woman asked me the other day to guess her ethnic background. After declining to guess — mainly because I don’t care about such stuff and know even less — she kept pressing me. I finally said, “I guess you may be Turkish,” whereupon she took major offense.
County disbands women's status commission
By: Jay Goetting on 12.8.2005
With little fanfare, Napa County's Board of Supervisors has allowed the county's Commission on the Status of Women to fade into history.
"Leave My Child Alone"
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley on 12.2.2005
To the casual web surfer, Leave My Child Alone appears to be a site for soccer moms, with friendly imagery and platitudes about child welfare. But slip below these surfaces and things changes. The name of the organization is an angry pun on the No Child Left Behind Act, which LMCA describes as "notorious." But the problem with the Act has nothing to do with education per se, but with a provision of the Act that allows recruiters from the United States military access to schools and to data about students. Leave My Child Alone, which began last April in San Francisco, doesn't like the military and wants recruiters to leave all students alone. It is a key part of an anti-military campaign that has targeted the nation’s schools as part of a long range strategy to undercut support for the war in Iraq and the War on Terror generally.
Black women branch out as owners
By: Gregory Lewis on 7.24.2005
Sisters, like publicist Dana Hill of Boca Raton and Hollywood clothing boutique owner Carol Edwards, are doing it for themselves
Studies Find Child Welfare System in Crisis
3.14.2001
San Francisco, CA – Despite reform efforts during the late 1990s, the foster-care bureaucracy and family courts fail to protect children adequately, often endangering children’s lives, according to Child Welfare Privatization and Adopting Reform, two studies released today by the Pacific Research Institute.
Study Shows Women Short-changed by Social Security
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.
Study Shows Government Programs Do Little To Help Our Children
8.31.1998
San Francisco, CA -- A new study by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI) finds no correlation between the 150 federal programs targeted specifically at children – and the $50 billion annually spent on these programs – and children’s well-being.
Welfare Reform--Corporate-Style
By: Sally C. Pipes on 4.1.1997
We have to launch a national effort in every state and every community to make sure that the jobs are there for people who have to make the transition from welfare to work," President Clinton stated during a meeting with 13 CEOs. "Welfare reform, if it is going to work, will need the leadership of the private sector in turning welfare checks into paychecks."
Pursuing Equality in a Free Society
By: Sally C. Pipes on 8.1.1996
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