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Extended Paid Maternity Leave Reduces Opportunities
The Contrarian
By: Joelle Cowan
8.31.2001
Last week, the Australian Catholic University (ACU) announced a plan to give all new mothers on its staff a full year’s paid leave. As nice as the benefit sounds, the unintended consequences that would follow from a universal adoption of this private university’s generous plan would cripple businesses and harm the prospects of women in the workplace.
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Going Postal
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
8.29.2001
My first mistake was probably visiting Kinko’s before I went to the downtown post office in the capital. Kinko’s bustled with activity and while one employee took care of my business, several others asked
me if there was anything I needed.
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How Real Are State Test Score Increases?
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
8.24.2001
Except for a vocal band of extremists, most people see testing as a necessity for both the education and accountability process. Students must be tested to see if they are learning in the classroom and meeting the standards of knowledge enacted by our state policymakers. The question, however, is whether California’s standardized test, the Stanford-9 (SAT-9) exam, actually accomplishes those goals. Because of key problems with the test, both the content and progress of learning remain unclear.
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Memoranda of Inefficiency: Reflections on the Edison Bailout Plan
Action Alert
By: Benjamin Zycher
8.24.2001
Current proposals for avoiding a formal bankruptcy by Southern California Edison, as embodied in alternative draft legislative Memoranda of Understanding (MOU) now under consideration, explicitly will create a hierarchy of favored and less-favored creditors. This approach will create powerful incentives for those with lower priority to force Edison into bankruptcy immediately, in substantial part because of fiduciary responsibilities to their owners or shareholders. In short: Despite the ostensible purpose of the MOU in terms of avoiding a formal bankruptcy filing by Edison, this provision seems designed to force such a filing while shifting the attendant political responsibility to the less-favored creditors.
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Poor Reasoning
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
8.17.2001
At the behest of the prestigious Economist, Jeffrey Sachs of the Center for International Development shows in his recent article, “What’s Good for the Poor is Good for America,” that paternalism and neo-colonialism are alive and well.
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Internet Taxes are New Taxes
ePolicy
By: Justin Matlick
8.1.2001
With the Internet tax moratorium set to expire, Congress is considering measures that would expand existing sales taxes. This would limit state competition, hinder the Internet’s ability to hold government accountable, and harm taxpayers. For these reasons, legislators should ignore their self-interest and renew the moratorium, no strings attached.
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California’s Precarious Privacy Proposals
ePolicy
8.1.2001
Last month’s flood of financial privacy notices was enough to make even the most wasteful individual scream “save the trees.” But just in case those pieces of government-mandated junk mail weren’t annoying enough, California legislators are working to enact more financial privacy regulations.
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