The Public Interest articles from March 1994

The Public Interest archives from March 1994

Why babies die in D.C. (District of Columbia)
March 22, 1994... ACROSS THE country and around the world, Washington is notorious as the "murder capital of America"--the city with the highest homicide rate of any major U.S. urban center. Less publicized, but no less scandalous, is another D.C. distinction...

Does welfare bring more babies?
March 22, 1994... LAST OCTOBER, I published a long piece on the op-ed page of the Wall Street Journal entitled "The Coming White Underclass." Its thesis was that white illegitimacy--22 percent of all live births as of the latest (1991) figures--is now moving...

How social problems are born.
March 22, 1994... HOW DO WE get more attention, more public action, for a problem we consider important? More important, how do we get the right kind of public attention and action, right in scale, and right in the kinds of solutions the public is willing to...

The ideology of "family preservation."
March 22, 1994... CAN A SINGLE welfare mother who has been beating her children, or failing to feed and bathe them, be turned into a responsible parent as the result of a one-to-three month infusion of counselling, free food, cash, furniture, rent vouchers, and...

Who are the working poor?
March 22, 1994... THE CLINTON administration has decried the plight of the "working poor" and vowed to create a "worker security" program that will keep every working American out of poverty. As the administration views the job market, it sees 6 million...

The quiet health care revolution.
March 22, 1994... WHILE THE HEALTH care debate rages on, the American public has already benefited from a massive, albeit unheralded, entrepreneurial revolution that has substantially increased the health care system's efficiency, responsiveness, and prowess....

Is job training oversold?
March 22, 1994... The Clinton administration has made job training a major priority. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has already presented a bold program for skill enhancement drawing on a new consensus in certain circles of the social science and policy...

Looking at the Sun.
March 22, 1994... PROTECTIONISM IS perennially popular in Gary and Youngstown, but over the past decade it has grown more respectable in Cambridge, New York, and Washington D.C. There seem to be several reasons. One is the tremendous economic success of Japan,...

The Moral Sense.
March 22, 1994... ONE OF THE MANY reasons for admiring James Q. Wilson is that he has achieved his eminence without yielding to fashionable academic opinion. We saw this clearly in his writing on crime, above all in Crime and Human Nature, written with Richard...