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The Waste Land
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
4.15.1998
“April is the cruelest month,” begins T.S. Eliot’s most famous poem, and it is ironic that, as an expatriot, he never had to suffer the agony of the Internal Revenue Service and April 15 in America. The Waste Land indeed.
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The Equal Pay Day Sham
The Contrarian
By: Katherine Post
4.15.1998
Let me make the case that there’s a day in April as irritating as Tax Day: it’s April 3rd, National Equal Pay Day. Designated by the National Committee on Pay Equity, it’s the day in 1998 when women earned as much as men in 1997.
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Fakery Faces the Music
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
4.7.1998
Education is like music. If you don’t know it but try to fake it, the truth comes out sooner rather than later. Consider the revelations from the California State University system, the nation’s largest, with 22 campuses and 344,000 students.
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Power to the People
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D, K. Lloyd Billingsley
4.2.1998
Government programs are easy to start but difficult if not impossible to dissolve. That makes California’s overturning of state-enforced race and gender preferences all the more remarkable. But for those who missed it, a full-length version is now available, bursting with lessons for the national debate.
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Index of Leading Environmental Indicators 1998
PRI Study
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D, Laura Jones
4.1.1998
Modem public attention to the environment dates roughly from the first Earth Day in 1970. But despite a generation of concern, public opinion about environmental issues remains confused and contradictory, and as a consequence public policy on the environment is highly contentious and unsettled.
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