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Who Should Pay for Health Care?
Clare Luce Booth Policy Foundation Publication
By: Sally C. Pipes
6.27.2008
We’ve all heard the statistic “47 million Americans do not have health insurance” as an underlying argument for massive health care reform. But did you know that 57 percent of the 47 million uninsured have annual incomes above $50,000? Or that two-thirds of the 47 million are between the ages of 18 and 34? Are younger Americans being sold another Social Security scheme?
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How California Can Graduate More Students: The Arizona Example
Capital Ideas
By: Ian Randolph
6.18.2008
On June 5, Education Week released Diplomas Count 2008: School to College. The report finds that three in 10 students who enroll in California public high schools fail to graduate. The statistics mask a more dismal reality, but there is a way the Golden State can improve.
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What Congress, and Everybody Else, Should Know About Genetically Modified Crops
Environmental Notes
By: Amy Kaleita, Ph.D
6.17.2008
With concerns mounting over global food supply and prices, and the potential impacts of climate change on the frequency of droughts or disease outbreaks, now’s the time for using technology to our advantage in food production. With this in mind, the Bush administration included a directive in its proposed $770 million global food aid package that the U.S. Agency for International Development spend $150 million on development farming, including the use of genetically modified (GM) crops, in food-deprived countries. The package awaits congressional approval.
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Bye Bye Nerdy! Congress Slams the Door on California’s Scientists and Engineers
Capital Ideas
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
6.11.2008
On Thursday, the House Judiciary Committee will consider a proposal by Silicon Valley Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren to end restrictions on the most critical resource driving technological innovation. This resource is human talent, and with the greatest public university system in the world, California should be fertile ground. Due to arbitrary and inflexible boundaries imposed by the federal government, however, California’s most innovative companies are forbidden from tapping into this abundant talent pool.
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The “Title Nining” of Academic Science
Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
6.3.2008
Whatever people prefer to call it, Title IX is a quota system that has caused plenty of damage in college sports, primarily by slashing men’s programs in the name of “proportionality.” As Christina Hoff Summers recently noted in The American, the gender warriors are now using Title IX to colonize new territory on campus, such as the math and science departments. In one sense they are right, because Title IX is not strictly about sports but educational opportunity. Women are certainly making the best of that.
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Burdening Foundations: Economic Costs of Assembly Bill 624
PRI Publication
By: Jason Clemens, Lawrence J. McQuillan, Ph.D., K. Lloyd Billingsley, Adam Frey
6.1.2008
As California goes, so goes the nation. California is now leading the quest to impose new racial and gender reporting requirements on foundations as well as the charities that receive grants from them and the businesses that work with them.
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