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A Windfall for Pols: That Congress Will Spend Our Surplus is Safest Projection
Investor's Business Daily - Business and Economics Op-Ed
By: Sally C. Pipes
10.26.2000
Presidential politics is at times reduced to a numbers’ game, as evidenced by Governor Bush’s and VP Gore’s bickering over tax cut and new spending numbers in their debates. Each candidate speaks with exactness about the parameters of their proposals and certainty about their ability to implement them. But budget numbers, anything outside of two weeks, are notoriously uncertain. And what neither candidate will recognize is that all the money they’re throwing around-that estimated $4.6 trillion in budget surplus over the next decade—may be spent before it ever makes it to Washington.
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Profit-First Politics Reaps Cynical Voters
Business and Economics Op-Ed
By: Justin Matlick
10.18.2000
As a challenge to the proverb, some things aren’t for sale,” James Baumgartner founded Voteauction.com, a Web site offering to sell presidential votes to the highest bidder, in August.
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School Accountability
KQED Commentary
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
10.17.2000
One of the most popular buzz words in education reform is accountability. Here in California, Governor Gray Davis has claimed that the incremental improvements in student test scores is due to his new public-school accountability program. Trouble is, Davis' program holds very few schools accountable and allows many of the worst schools to escape accountability completely.
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Setting the Record Straight on Texas Health Care
Press Release
10.13.2000
San Francisco, CA -- There are over 40 federal programs and numerous state and county programs that specifically provide health-care services for the uninsured in Texas, in addition to health-care services provided by private charities and non-profit organizations, according to a recent report on the uninsured in Texas.
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Despite Campaign Rhetoric, California Teachers Are Highly Paid and Not in Short Supply, Study Shows
Press Release
10.5.2000
SAN FRANCISCO, October 4, 2000 -- While Vice President Al Gore focused on smaller class size and the need for 100,000 new teachers in the first Presidential debate, a new study shows that California does not suffer from an overall teacher shortage, and that public schools perform poorly because teachers are given no incentive for high performance. They are paid at the same level regardless of results and are virtually impossible to fire under the current system.
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