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Why Pay Equity Day is Out of Date
The Contrarian
By: Naomi Lopez
3.30.1999
Gender victimization groups are marking April 8 on their calendar. That’s the day when, by their accounting, a working woman’s earnings catch up to those of a working man for the previous year.
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Children in Crisis
Action Alerts
By: Doug Bandow
3.24.1999
For all the concern over welfare reform and the well being of children, scant attention has been paid to what is perhaps a more disturbing form of child poverty—the lack of a loving family.
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Vanishing Farmland Reappears--Again
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
3.24.1999
Twenty years ago the federal government issued a breathless report called the National Agricultural Lands Study that predicted that the United States was in grave danger of running out of farmland. "Ten years from now," the report concluded, "Americans could be as concerned about the loss of the nation’s prime and important farmlands as they are today over shortages of oil and gasoline."
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Testimony to Senate Environment and Public Works Committee
Testimony
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
3.17.1999
The aversion to rapid change is the dominant social fact behind the controversy over sprawl, and it is enhanced by a second powerful social fact: the increasing latitude for choice that people have today. Thirty years ago, for example, our phones were the property of the monopoly phone company; today we choose our long distance provider. While the main story line of modern life is expanding choice and opportunity, rapid urban growth is seen as narrowing our range of choice and diminishing our control over our own destiny.
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California Flunks Again
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
3.16.1999
The results are in from the 1998 state-by-state fourth- and eighth-grade reading scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test. To no one’s surprise, California students once again performed at dismally low levels.
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Save Farmland--Drive a Car
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
3.8.1999
If memory serves me correctly, there was a book out a few years back with the title Monster Trucks and Hair in a Can: Who Says America Doesn’t Make Anything Anymore? This title came back to me Friday night, when a network news report carried a breathy and ominous report about how the next generation of sport utility vehicles (SUVs) are going to be . . . gulp . . . even bigger!
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Are California Families Being Lured into Socialized Medicine?
Action Alerts
By: Naomi Lopez
3.8.1999
There is no question that nearly all Californians think children should have access to quality health care. And while current efforts to expand government health care programs for children may be well intentioned, these programs have serious unintended consequences. Experience has shown that government health care programs can encourage families to drop their private health insurance and severely reduce health care choices.
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How U.S. Encryption Policy Harms Businesses
ePolicy
By: Justin Matlick
3.1.1999
Despite recent events highlighting the futility of its policy, the White House insists on regulating encryption technology. This policy is ineffective, harms U.S. encryption makers, and damages the economy. As they debate encryption reform, legislators should consider a better, proven approach. The ideal policy would eliminate encryption controls and embrace the free market.
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