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The Millennium of the Woman
The Contrarian
By: Laura Steadman
4.27.2000
Aspiring Senator Hillary Clinton recently complained that although politics was tough for both men and women, "there are extra burdens that women face." Hillary may indeed face special obstacles, for obvious reasons. She is not from the state in which she is running, for example. But in the new millennium things are looking particularly good for women, though that wasn't always the case.
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All Over But The Shouting
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
4.25.2000
The recent protests against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund posed problems for embattled D.C. police and served up exciting footage for the evening news. The noisy scrum in the nation's capital also provided the public and policymakers with valuable educational benefits about the media and the protesters.
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Notes From the Forces of Reaction
Capital Ideas
By: Thomas Dawson
4.19.2000
Three weeks ago, I authored an op-ed piece for the Los Angeles Times proposing various pay performance incentives. I argued that teacher salaries in Los Angeles are already above statewide averages, and considerably higher than national trends. I sided with Howard Miller, the L.A. district's chief operating officer, who claims "the system right now has failed a great many of our students. We believe that proof of performance has to precede additional funding."
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We’ve Come A Long Way, Baby
The Contrarian
By: Joanna Elachi
4.12.2000
In spite of complaints about the supposed wage gap and under-representation of women in top corporate positions, it is important that we conclude Women’s History Month with consideration of the very real gains that women have made in a very short period of time.
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Crash Test Dummies and TV Test Patterns
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
4.11.2000
More evidence of the centrality of "the children" in American life comes from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA, pronounced "nit-suh"and run by nitwits), which recently announced new regulatory standards for producing three-year-old crash test dummies, and just in time, too. "The new dummy," the Federal Register notice reads, "part of the family of Hybrid III test dummies, is more representative of humans than the existing Subpart C 3-year-old child dummy in our regulation." How the new dummies will be tested "will be addressed in separate rulemaking proceedings."
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Citizen Census
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
4.4.2000
"The actual enumeration shall be made within three years after the first meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent term of ten years, in such manner as they shall by law direct."
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Think You Know What Health Care Reforms Hispanics Want? Think Again.
Action Alerts
By: Naomi Lopez Bauman
4.4.2000
According to conventional wisdom, Hispanics are one monolithic group wedded to government solutions in health care. But a new poll by the Hispanic Business Roundtable (HBR) shatters that stereotype with the revelation that many Hispanics are expressing a desire for more control over their health-care decisions.
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Index of Leading Environmental Indicators 2000
PRI Study
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D, Elizabeth Fowler, Laura Steadman
4.1.2000
The Pacific Research Institute is pleased to present the fifth edition of the Index of Leading Environmental Indicators. The purpose of the Index is to provide policymakers and interested citizens with an annual checkup on environmental trends in the United States. It is especially propitious to do so this year, which marks the 30th anniversary of Earth Day on April 22.
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The private sector, not government, protects consumers online
ePolicy
By: Justin Matlick
4.1.2000
In March, the Federal Trade Commission(FTC) unveiled the latest in a string of projects intended to combat online fraud. Though driven by good intentions, these efforts only highlight how the Information Age is rendering the FTC increasingly obsolete. The private sector is devising innovative new mechanisms to protect consumers online, proving that the solution to the Internet’s governance problems is usually not more government, but less.
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