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Sons of Single-payer: Why California Doesn't Need More Government in Health Care
PRI Study
By: Michael Lynch, John C. Liu
10.1.1996
In November 1994, California voters overwhelmingly defeated Proposition 186 (73% - 27%), an initiative that would have placed every man, woman, and child's health care needs in California in the hands of a government run and controlled system. Now, the same labor organizations that were behind Proposition 186 are back with the same agenda, but with a different twist.
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Affirmative Action in California's State Civil Service: Who is Really Underrepresented and Why
By: Michael Lynch
10.1.1996
The California state civil service has pursued policies of "affirmative action" for more than 25 years. In 1971, then Governor Ronald Reagan signed Executive Order (E.O.) No. R-34-71, which stated "justice demands that every citizen consciously adopt and accentuate a personal commitment to affirmative action which will make equal opportunity a reality." The legislature built on Reagan's E.O. in 1977, giving the State Personnel Board (SPB) responsibility for coordinating the state's affirmative action efforts and for assisting departments in setting hiring goals and timetables.
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Ethnicity as Destiny: An Examination of Race-Based Admissions at University of California at Berkeley
PRI Study
By: Michael Lynch
10.1.1996
The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) released the findings of its seven-year investigation into undergraduate admissions at U.C. Berkeley on March 15, 1996. The OCR declared, among other things, that UCB "does not maintain illegal quotas for Black, Hispanic and Filipino applicants" and that its admission policy does not unduly discriminate based on race. The OCR report was welcomed by proponents of racial preferences as "a model of prudence" and "an historical vindication of one of the most scrutinized affirmative action programs in the country."
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