Policy Review articles from January 1997

Policy Review archives from January 1997

Doctor, can I have this agency removed? (U.S. Public Health Service's costly Commissioned Corps)
January 1, 1997... Six years ago, during the buildup to the Persian Gulf War, the deployment of military medical personnel threatened to create shortages of medical profes- sionals in some parts of the country. No problem: the U.S. Government was, at least in...

Who needs the SBA?(Small Business Administration; profile of First Capitol Bank in York, Pennsylvania)
January 1, 1997... Speaking last June at the White House Conference on Small Business, President Clinton praised the "leaner, more invigorated, more committed" Small Business Administration (SBA).of this small federal agency, he said, is the best way to get venture...

"No child is unadoptable."(private agencies find homes for hard-to-place children)
January 1, 1997... Liberalism, the self-styled defender of children's welfare, harbors a myth that dehumanizes and threatens countless children every day. It is a myth embodied in a bureacratic label: "unadoptable."is the assumption that, because some children are...

A job tree grows in Brooklyn.(Resources job training and creation program for legal immigrants)
January 1, 1997... One of the most controversial provisions of last year's welfare reform is the denial of government social services to legal immigrants who aren't citizens. The new law bars noncitizens from receiving food stamps until they become citizens or have...

Triumphs & traps; what's ahead for conservatives.(twenty-four prominent conservatives ponder what the Nov 1996 elections signify)
January 1, 1997... What do the 1996 elections tell us about where the American people want the country to go? Is the country still shifting toward conservative government? What are the greatest opportunities now to advance the conservative agenda in the...

The liberal rout; why conservatives are winning in the 1990s.
January 1, 1997... There is a story the late publisher Henry Regnery liked to tell about one of his first conversations with Russell Kirk, the founder of postwar American conservative thought and a native of Michigan. In 1952, Kirk submitted a major book manuscript...

The citizen senator.(how four members of Congress have personally helped those in need)
January 1, 1997... Members of Congress have traditionally defined compassion by how much of other people's money they spend on their favorite causes. Perhaps it's time for a new definition: How senators and representatives use their own time and leadership skills...

The imperial judiciary ... and what Congress can do about it.(problems with the doctrine of judicial review)
January 1, 1997... Under the modern doctrine of judicial review, the federal judiciary can invalidate any state or federal law or policy it considers inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution. This doctrine gives unelected federal judges awesome power. Whenever these...

A union leader betrayed.(AFL-CIO at odds with vision of labor pioneer Samuel Gompers)
January 1, 1997... Before the last election, the AFL-CIO, under the direction of its president John Sweeney, spent nearly $40 million lobbying on behalf of candidates who wished to expand the size and scope of government. It was the most ambitious political program...