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Don't Forget the Women
The Contrarian
By: Katherine Post
7.17.1998
Last month, UC Regent Ward Connerly called for a review of ethnic-studies programs in the University of California system. He told the San Francisco Chronicle that he simply wants to get the university to question why it uses race and ethnicity as the basis for scholarship, noting that he believes such pursuits may contribute to racial divisions. This inquiry raises important questions.
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Reducing the Cost of School Construction
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
7.16.1998
Come November, Californians will likely be asked to approve billions of dollars in state and local bonds to finance the construction of school facilities. No one denies the need for more schools and classrooms, especially in the face of a burgeoning student population. The problem is whether taxpayers are getting the most out of the dollars spent on school construction. As things stand now, they aren’t.
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Downsizing Worker Opportunity with Another Minimum Wage Hike
Action Alert
By: Donald Sutherland
7.15.1998
Less than a year after the nation’s minimum wage was raised to $5.15 per hour, President Clinton is seeking another $1.00 an hour increase over two years. The President argues that such an increase is essential to preventing many of America’s families from falling through the cracks and back below the poverty line. But the logic that increasing the minimum wage will save America’s families from falling into poverty could not be more wrong.
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"Mr. Jiang: Tear Down This..."
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
7.1.1998
Oops. Sorry. Wrong President. Wrong country. Wrong decade. But right idea. It was perhaps too much to hope that the politician from Hope (Ark.) would match the Great Communicator’s ringing pronouncement of ten years ago in Berlin. But if President Clinton has not yet caught up to President Reagan’s point on the presidential learning curve, he nonetheless has shown a few signs of progress on his current trip to China.
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