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No End to Welfare as We Know It in California
Action Alerts
By: Naomi Lopez
4.30.1999
Despite the political rhetoric surrounding the success of national welfare reform, some California lawmakers are keeping a dirty little secret. These lawmakers believe that able-bodied adults should be allowed to linger indefinitely on California’s General Relief program – at county taxpayers’ expense.
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Losing a Battle, But Winning the War
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
4.28.1999
It seemed like a scripted foregone conclusion. A state legislative committee stacked with historic opponents of school choice hearing and voting on another school-choice bill. A ho-hum, what’s-the-use, slam-dunk loss for school-choice supporters, right? Well, not really, and therein lies a most interesting tale with potentially huge ramifications.
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Ally McBeal and the End of Feminism
The Contrarian
By: Katherine Post
4.27.1999
Sometimes powerful social commentary comes from the most unlikely places. Consider the treatment of gender discrimination on the latest episode of "Ally McBeal."
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Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Battle for California’s Charter Schools
Action Alerts
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley, Pamela Riley
4.26.1999
In 1993 California passed a law authorizing charter schools, deregulated schools within the public system that gain freedom from burdensome education codes in return for meeting the goals of their founding "charter." Convinced that charter schools bring about revolutionary change, good for students, parents, and teachers alike, the state legislature expanded that law last year. But after two steps forward, California is poised to take a giant step back.
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Déjà Vu All Over Again
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
4.15.1999
Bill Clinton was supposed to represent "New Democrats," liberals chastened by the failures of the older ideological liberalism and therefore more centrist and "realistic" about both social and foreign policy. But the Kosovo conundrum raises fresh doubt about whether today’s ruling liberals learned either from the failures of their liberal forebears, or from their own critique of liberalism when they were in the vanguard of the 1960s protest movement.
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President Clinton’s Wage-Gap Jihad
The Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
4.14.1999
Organized feminists have been among President Clinton’s most loyal supporters. The President is using his bully-pulpit to reward them by reviving a tired and discredited issue, the gender wage gap.
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Gun Lawsuits: Misfired Public Policy
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
4.12.1999
Spurred by legal victories against tobacco companies, trial lawyers, local government officials, and liberal activists are taking aim at gun manufacturers. Cities nationwide, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Sacramento, are suing or planning to sue gun manufacturers for millions of dollars. Although city officials claim that they are simply trying to recoup public safety and health costs associated with gun crimes, a new study concludes that such suits are ill-advised.
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Chump Change for Women
Action Alerts
By: Naomi Lopez
4.8.1999
April 8 is "Pay Equity Day," the day when a working woman’s earnings supposedly catch up to those of a working man for the previous year. The "pay gap" this day is designed to protest not only lacks support but pales in comparison to a retirement gap that victimizes working women.
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Index of Leading Environmental Indicators 1999
PRI Study
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D, Erin Schiller, Elizabeth Fowler
4.1.1999
The purpose of the Index of Leading Environmental Indicators is to provide policy makers and interested citizens with an annual checkup on environmental progress in the United States. “The environment” is a broad term, encompassing hundreds of discrete issues and concerns. The amount of data is overwhelming, making an exhaustive report truly exhausting for all but the dedicated specialist. It is for this reason that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) annual reports on environmental issues tend to go unread by the public and unreported in the media.
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Why the DOJ Should Settle With Microsoft
ePolicy
By: Justin Matlick
4.1.1999
Settlement negotiations are underway in the Microsoft antitrust case, and the company has offered to concede several contentious issues. The Department of Justice, however, remains focused on handicapping the software giant. If the DOJ succeeds, it would harm consumers and set a dangerous precedent.
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