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What You Don’t Hear
The Contrarian
By: Judith Kleinfeld
12.30.1998
Back in my college days, it was not uncommon for qualified women to be rejected from medical school on the basis that they were a bad investment. Even if they did complete their medical studies, they were expected to eventually depart their practice to raise a family.
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Happy New Year
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
12.29.1998
It is surely not a coincidence that the latest upleg in the bull market began at the exact moment it became clear the House would vote to impeach President Clinton. The Chicken Littles had been saying that an impeachment vote would roil the markets and tank the economy. Instead, according to the latest figures, Americans are so confident that they have been dipping into savings to spend money. This is not how the world is supposed to work -- if you’re a liberal. Remember, the worst bear market since the Great Depression coincided with the political crisis that saw Mr. Nixon airlifted from the South Lawn for the last time.
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Moving Social Services Back to Our Communities
PRI Study
By: Michael Bragin
12.28.1998
For more than half a century, responsibility for the social welfare of America’s poorer citizens has shifted toward government and away from the private and charitable efforts of local community organizations and associations.
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Standards Implementation and Accountability
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
12.22.1998
When Gray Davis takes office as California’s next governor, one of the most important issues he will have to face will be how the state’s new education standards will be implemented. There is nearly unanimous agreement that California’s new standards in math, reading, science, and history are among the best and most rigorous in the nation. Excellent though they may be, however, the new standards will have little effect on student performance in the classroom if the state does not adopt a wise implementation and accountability plan.
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Golden State Shakedown
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
12.15.1998
While California’s capital rings with the word "moderate," there will be no moderation when the state reaches for the wallets of its citizens. The grab has already begun, with camouflage from the media.
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Lost in N-Space
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
12.9.1998
The dysfunctional family known as the Free Market Environmentalism (FME) movement held its annual pow-wow here last week, a raucous, intramural brawl worthy of the Algonquin Roundtable. The invective never rose to the level of Mary McCarthy’s great attack on Lillian Hellman--"Every word she wrote was a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’"--but it is amazing how many different ways fundamentally like-minded people can disagree.
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Courts Trying to Gut Prop 209
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
12.3.1998
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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Unequal Fortunes in the Fortune 500
The Contrarian
By: Katherine Post
12.3.1998
The latest weapon in the feminist arsenal is a new study from Catalyst, a women’s research organization. The group’s 1998 Catalyst Census of Women Corporate Officers and Top Earners found that female corporate executives in the Fortune 500 are chronically underpaid compared to male executives.
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California Legislators' Guide 1999
PRI Guide
12.1.1998
Since the mid-1990s, California’s state spending has been increasing at an impressive pace. Governor Gray Davis’s most recent budget proposal is $102 billion—almost eight percent higher than last year’s proposed budget—and does not fully account for changing economic conditions and the state’s electricity crisis. Figure 1 in this study breaks down the governor’s proposed budget by spending area.
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How Social Security Short-Changes Women
PRI Study
By: Naomi Lopez, Dominique M. Lazanski
12.1.1998
Women’s groups and the media often portray proposals to replace the current Social Security system with a system of individually-owned retirement accounts as discriminatory towards women – believing that government’s current Social Security system is better designed to provide a secure retirement. As the debate on the best way to save the Social Security system from its looming insolvency heats up, it is becoming increasingly important to reveal the many ways in which Social Security’s current design is actually harming women’s prospects for a secure retirement.
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