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Girl Time at the AFL-CIO
The Contrarian
By: Katherine Post
9.18.1997
Last week, the AFL-CIO hosted a three day conference in Washington, D.C. with scheduled appearances from Vice President Al Gore, U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexis Herman, and former Texas Governor Ann Richards. The conference, titled “Working Women Working Together,” was the culmination of a year-long road show in which the AFL-CIO toured the country to “listen to the concerns of working women everywhere.”
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The War Against Educational "Gobbledygook"
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
9.16.1997
For the next month, your faithful Capital Ideas correspondent will be writing, not from toasty Sacramento, but from windy and overcast London where I am on a visiting fellowship with the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), one of Britain's leading free-market think tanks.
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A Worm in the Apple
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
9.9.1997
Jessica Gavora of the Independent Women's Forum has performed a notable public service in recent issues of Policy Review, where she succeeded in smoking out the hypocrisy of the ACLU on the issue of racial quotas and preferences. Way back in 1964, the ACLU joined other liberal groups in endorsing the Civil Rights Act, and especially Title VII, which banned discrimination based on race, color, or national origin.
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Marching to the Beat of Its Own Drum
The Contrarian
By: Katherine Post
9.4.1997
Once again, the Clinton Administration has revealed itself to be totally out of step with American sentiment. One day before one of the most liberal courts in the country upheld the constitutionality of the California Civil Rights Initiative (CCRI) banning the use of preferences based on race or sex in any state action, a rather low profile but incredibly powerful office at the U.S. Labor Department sent a letter to 250 federal contractors in California, reminding them of their responsibility to "clarify and reinforce" affirmative action plans within their companies.
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