Policy Review articles from May 1996

Policy Review archives from May 1996

Micro wave. (Working Capital funds entrepreneurial micro-businesses)
May 1, 1996... With its frigid winters, rocky soil, and lack of mineral wealth, New England was an unlikely center of economic dynamism in the early American republic. But the Unitarians of Massachusetts, Baptists of Rhode Island, and Congregationalists of...

A wet blanket for volunteer firefighters.
May 1, 1996... Last summer, a brush fire in West Hampton, New York, burned for more than two weeks, consuming 5,000 acres and 12 homes. Several thousand volunteer firemen from 192 fire departments risked their lives to battle the blaze. According to the Clinton...

Quotas in the drug war.
May 1, 1996... A 1992 drug bust by Los Angeles police and federal agents began as a routine undercover operation. Police made eight visits to a dealer's motel room, buying a total of 133 grams of crack cocaine. In the raid they seized firearms and arrested five...

Drumbeats for divorce reform. (includes related article on book 'The Abolition of Marriage')
May 1, 1996... On September 5, 1969, with a stroke of his pen, California governor Ronald Reagan wiped out the moral basis for marriage in America. Within five years, 44 states had followed California's lead in instituting some form of no-fault divorce...

Mum's the word in British day care.
May 1, 1996... In 1961, a mother in London wrote a letter to the Manchester Guardian that resonated with families all over Britain. Belle Tutaev related her predicament as a working mother of limited means who wanted to spend more time with her young daughter...

Opus Dei tutors kids in Aquinas and algebra.
May 1, 1996... For most of its 30 years, Chicago's Midtown Education Foundation (MEF) has bucked prevailing currents in American culture. When young people in the 1960s began to rage against authority and social norms, Midtown's academic tutoring program...

The market approach to job training.
May 1, 1996... The 1996 presidential primaries have pushed the plight of American workers to the top of the nation's political agenda. Some commentators argue that unfair foreign competition and callous executives have destroyed the social contract between...

State think tanks take aim.(Laboratories of Democracy)
May 1, 1996... Little Rock, Arkansas--Higher taxes may be popular in Bill Clinton's White House, but back where Clinton comes from, they're about as welcome as subpoenas at the Rose Law Firm. By a whopping tally of 87 percent, Arkansas voters last January...

Why parents hate TV.
May 1, 1996... Over the past few months, the V-chip has quickly become the most celebrated piece of computer circuitry in America. In swift succession, President Clinton championed this little byte of technology in his State of the Union address, Congress...

Spirit of '96. (implications of a growing shift to Republican governors)
May 1, 1996... Since the Republican victories of November 8, 1994, the press has focused on the dramatic changes in Congress. With a net gain of 52 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and eight seats in the U.S. Senate, the Republicans took control of...

In welfare reform, governors miss the point.
May 1, 1996... Congress is now considering a welfare-reform plan recently proposed by the nation's governors. Unfortunately, this plan ignores America's biggest social problem: the catastrophic rise of illegitimacy. Nearly a third of the children born in...

Trade secrets: global markets spur Toledo's turnaround. (Toledo, Ohio)
May 1, 1996... If we didn't have international trade, we'd lose jobs,"before finding uninterrupted employment at Sauder, which exports to 70 countries worldwide. "If we can't win in the international market, then something is wrong with us,"Toledo. Even...

Unlocking the jury box.
May 1, 1996... The Founders of our nation understood that no idea was more central to our Bill of Rights--indeed, to government of the people, by the people, and for the people--than the citizen jury. It was cherished not only as a bulwark against tyranny but...

Muchas gracias, Mr. Dolusio. (Pennsylvania school superintendent institutes repeal of bilingual education policy)
May 1, 1996... School superintendent Thomas J. Doluisio was puzzled. His Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, district had an elaborate program of Spanish-language classes for its large population of Spanish-speaking children. Proponents of bilingual education said this...

Profits with honor.
May 1, 1996... Election-year politics and widespread anxiety about economic security have recently prompted fierce public discussion of the "social responsibilities" of business. The debate has often been dominated by caricatures of business leaders callously...

Powers Congress cannot delegate.
May 1, 1996... Thomas Jefferson feared the tendency for government to grow and for liberty to yield. The Founders' solution was to create a central government with explicitly limited powers delegated by the people and enumerated in a binding constitution....

Knight vision. (Knights of Columbus)
May 1, 1996... In the fall of 1881, Father Michael J. McGivney gathered a small group of men in the basement of St. Mary's Church in New Haven, Connecticut, to start an association to help his Irish immigrant parishioners in their new homeland. No one could...