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A Trade Policy For The United States, Murray L. Weidenbaum Dec 2000

A Trade Policy For The United States, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

The Trade Deficit Review Commission was established to study the nature, causes, and consequences of the U.S. trade deficits. This report discusses recommendations on how the nation can become more competitive in the global marketplace.


Promoting The Case For Free Trade, Murray L. Weidenbaum Dec 2000

Promoting The Case For Free Trade, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

The final report of the Trade Deficit Review Commission focused on the numerous disagreements between the Republican and Democratic members. In this report, Murray Weidenbaum wants to highlight the strong free trade message supported by the Republican members.


Key Challenges Facing President-Elect Bush, Murray L. Weidenbaum Dec 2000

Key Challenges Facing President-Elect Bush, Murray L. Weidenbaum

Murray Weidenbaum Publications

This paper focuses on the serious issues facing our nation during a difficult and perhaps dangerous period. Politically, Bush must work to restore the public's confidence in the presidency and develop a good working relationship with Congress. Bush will also have to deal with a slowing economy in which inflation is still rising. Domestically, fiscal policy and regulation will prove difficult issues to resolve. Finally, president-elect Bush must set a strong foreign policy agenda, as there are problem areas almost everywhere one looks around the globe.


Causality And Subjectivity In The Religious Quest, Ursula Goodenough Dec 2000

Causality And Subjectivity In The Religious Quest, Ursula Goodenough

Biology Faculty Publications & Presentations

The dynamics of seeking causation and the dynamics of subjectivity are presented and then brought together in a consideration of the three core components of the religious quest: the search for and experience of ultimate explanations, the interiority of religious experience (“spirituality”), and the empathic experience of religious fellowship.


Religiopoiesis, Ursula Goodenough Sep 2000

Religiopoiesis, Ursula Goodenough

Biology Faculty Publications & Presentations

Religiopoiesis describes the crafting of religion, a core activity of humankind. Each religion is grounded in its myth, and each myth includes a cosmology of origins and destiny. The scientific worldview coheres as such a myth and calls for a religiopoietic response. The difficulties, opportunities, and imperatives inherent in this call are explored, particularly as they impact the working scientist.


Chromatin Organization And Transcriptional Control Of Gene Expression In Drosophila, G Farkas, B Leibovitch, Sarah C.R. Elgin Aug 2000

Chromatin Organization And Transcriptional Control Of Gene Expression In Drosophila, G Farkas, B Leibovitch, Sarah C.R. Elgin

Biology Faculty Publications & Presentations

It is increasingly clear that the packaging of DNA in nucleosome arrays serves not only to constrain the genome within the nucleus, but also to encode information concerning the activity state of the gene. Packaging limits the accessibility of many regulatory DNA sequence elements and is functionally significant in the control of transcription, replication, repair and recombination. Here, we review studies of the heat-shock genes, illustrating the formation of a specific nucleosome array at an activatable promoter, and describe present information on the roles of DNA-binding factors and energy-dependent chromatin remodeling machines in facilitating assembly of an appropriate structure. Epigenetic …


Assets And The Poor: Evidence From Individual Development Accounts, Mark Schreiner, Michael Sherraden, Margaret Clancy, Lissa Johnson, Jami Curley, Min Zhan, Sondra Beverly, Michal Grinstein-Weiss Jul 2000

Assets And The Poor: Evidence From Individual Development Accounts, Mark Schreiner, Michael Sherraden, Margaret Clancy, Lissa Johnson, Jami Curley, Min Zhan, Sondra Beverly, Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Center for Social Development Research

Assets and the Poor: Evidence From Individual Development Accounts


Assets In Theoretical Context: A Developmentalist Interpretation, James Midgley Jul 2000

Assets In Theoretical Context: A Developmentalist Interpretation, James Midgley

Center for Social Development Research

This paper was commissioned for Inclusion in Asset Building: Research and Policy Symposium, an event hosted in September 2000 by the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis. The paper seeks to broaden understanding of asset programs by linking them to the normative perspectives of contemporary social welfare theory. These normative perspectives have been formulated by academics and social policy analysts in an attempt to capture and interpret the complexities of current social welfare realities. Although they invoke ideological preferences, these normative preferences are subsumed under the abstract formulations of normative theory. They reflect diverse beliefs about …


Family Matters: Kin Networks And Asset Accumulation, Ngina Chiteji, Darrick Hamilton Jul 2000

Family Matters: Kin Networks And Asset Accumulation, Ngina Chiteji, Darrick Hamilton

Center for Social Development Research

Family Matters: Kin Networks and Asset Accumulation


Who Are The Asset Poor? Levels, Trends, And Composition, 1983-1998, Robert Haveman, Edward N. Wolff Jul 2000

Who Are The Asset Poor? Levels, Trends, And Composition, 1983-1998, Robert Haveman, Edward N. Wolff

Center for Social Development Research

Who Are the Asset Poor? Levels, Trends, and Composition, 1983-1998


Asset Building Policy And Programs For The Poor, Michael Sherraden Jul 2000

Asset Building Policy And Programs For The Poor, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Asset Building Policy and Programs for the Poor


Commentary On Empirical Research On An Asset Building Policy: A Microeconomic Perspective, Anne E. Winkler Jul 2000

Commentary On Empirical Research On An Asset Building Policy: A Microeconomic Perspective, Anne E. Winkler

Center for Social Development Research

Commentary on Empirical Research on an Asset Building Policy: A Microeconomic Perspective


Discussant Comments, Larry Davis Jul 2000

Discussant Comments, Larry Davis

Center for Social Development Research

Discussant Comments


From Research To Policy: Lessons From Individual Development Accounts, Michael Sherraden Jul 2000

From Research To Policy: Lessons From Individual Development Accounts, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

From Research to Policy: Lessons From Individual Development Accounts


Saving Patterns In Ida Programs, Michael Sherraden, Lissa Johnson, Margaret Clancy, Sondra Beverly, Mark Schreiner, Min Zhan, Jami Curley Jul 2000

Saving Patterns In Ida Programs, Michael Sherraden, Lissa Johnson, Margaret Clancy, Sondra Beverly, Mark Schreiner, Min Zhan, Jami Curley

Center for Social Development Research

Saving Patterns in IDA Programs


The Universal Piggy Bank: Designing And Implementing A System Of Savings Accounts For Children, Fred T. Goldberg Jr., Jodi Birk Cohen Jul 2000

The Universal Piggy Bank: Designing And Implementing A System Of Savings Accounts For Children, Fred T. Goldberg Jr., Jodi Birk Cohen

Center for Social Development Research

The Universal Piggy Bank: Designing and Implementing a System of Savings Accounts for Children


Saving And Asset-Accumulation Strategies Used By Low-Income Individuals, Amanda Moore Mcbride, Sondra Beverly, Michael Sherraden, Margaret Sherraden, Lissa Johnson, Mark Schreiner Jul 2000

Saving And Asset-Accumulation Strategies Used By Low-Income Individuals, Amanda Moore Mcbride, Sondra Beverly, Michael Sherraden, Margaret Sherraden, Lissa Johnson, Mark Schreiner

Center for Social Development Research

This paper presents quantitative and qualitative data regarding the saving and asset-accumulation strategies used by low-income participants in Individual Development Account programs(IDAs). the results of a cross-sectional survey with 298 IDA participants and case studies with 15 IDA participants—the first methods that assessed saving behavior among this population—demonstrate that low-income individuals use psychological and behavioral strategies to save, deposit, and maintain assets. the most frequentlyused strategies are behavioral saving strategiesfor increasing the efficiency of spending (e.g., shopping more carefully for food) and for reducing consumption (e.g., spending less on leisure). Qualitative results indicate that individuals also use goals and mental …


The Impacts Of Ida Programs On Family Savings And Asset-Holdings, Michael Stegman, Robert Faris, Oswaldo Urdapilleta Gonzales Jul 2000

The Impacts Of Ida Programs On Family Savings And Asset-Holdings, Michael Stegman, Robert Faris, Oswaldo Urdapilleta Gonzales

Center for Social Development Research

This paper was commissioned for Inclusion in Asset Building: Research and Policy Symposium, an event hosted in September 2000 by the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis. A version was subsequently developed for publication in Inclusion in the American Dream: Assets, Poverty, and Public Policy (Oxford University Press, 2005). This paper supplements research on the national Individual Development Account (IDA) pilot known as the Downpayment on the American Dream Demonstration (ADD). Its subject is the financial impact of ADD on the net savings and assets of program participants, and it examines what ADD participants would have …


Asset Accumulation For The Poor? A View From The Right, Richard Nadler Jul 2000

Asset Accumulation For The Poor? A View From The Right, Richard Nadler

Center for Social Development Research

Asset Accumulation for the Poor? A View From the Right


Assets, Race, And Educational Choices, Tom Shapiro, Heather Beth Johnson Jul 2000

Assets, Race, And Educational Choices, Tom Shapiro, Heather Beth Johnson

Center for Social Development Research

Assets, Race, and Educational Choices


Asking Questions Well: The Role Of Theory In Applied Social Research, Michael Sherraden Jul 2000

Asking Questions Well: The Role Of Theory In Applied Social Research, Michael Sherraden

Center for Social Development Research

Asking Questions Well: The Role Of Theory in Applied Social Research


The Thrift Savings Plan Experience: Implications For A Universal Asset Account Initiative, Elaine Rideout-Fisher Jul 2000

The Thrift Savings Plan Experience: Implications For A Universal Asset Account Initiative, Elaine Rideout-Fisher

Center for Social Development Research

The Thrift Savings Plan Experience: Implications for a Universal Asset Account Initiative


Reaching Out To The Unbanked, John Caskey Jul 2000

Reaching Out To The Unbanked, John Caskey

Center for Social Development Research

Commissioned for Inclusion in Asset Building: Research and Policy Symposium, an event hosted in September 2000 by the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis, this paper was developed for publication in Inclusion in the American Dream: Assets, Poverty, and Public Policy (Oxford University Press, 2005). This paper presents a strategy for helping the unbanked to build savings and to improve their credit-risk profiles in order to lower their cost of payment services, eliminate a common source of stress, and gain access to lower-cost mainstream credit.


Discussant Comments, Mark R. Rank Jul 2000

Discussant Comments, Mark R. Rank

Center for Social Development Research

Discussant Comments


Going To Scale: Principles And Policy Options For An Inclusive Asset-Building Policy, Robert Friedman, Ray Boshara Jul 2000

Going To Scale: Principles And Policy Options For An Inclusive Asset-Building Policy, Robert Friedman, Ray Boshara

Center for Social Development Research

Going to Scale: Principles and Policy Options for an Inclusive Asset-Building Policy


Productive Engagement Of Older Adults: Effects On Well-Being, Nancy Morrow-Howell Jul 2000

Productive Engagement Of Older Adults: Effects On Well-Being, Nancy Morrow-Howell

Center for Social Development Research

Productive Engagement of Older Adults: Effects on Well-Being


Asset Based Policies For The Poor: A View From The Left, Jared Bernstein Jul 2000

Asset Based Policies For The Poor: A View From The Left, Jared Bernstein

Center for Social Development Research

Asset Based Policies for the Poor: A View From the Left


Toward Progressive Pensions: A Summary Of The U.S. Pension System And Proposals For Reform, Peter Orszag, Robert Greenstein Jul 2000

Toward Progressive Pensions: A Summary Of The U.S. Pension System And Proposals For Reform, Peter Orszag, Robert Greenstein

Center for Social Development Research

Toward Progressive Pensions: A Summary of the U.S. Pension System and Proposals for Reform


Resources Used To Produce Individual Development Accounts In The First Two Years Of The Experimental Program Of The American Dream Demonstration At The Community Action Project Of Tulsa County, Mark Schreiner Jul 2000

Resources Used To Produce Individual Development Accounts In The First Two Years Of The Experimental Program Of The American Dream Demonstration At The Community Action Project Of Tulsa County, Mark Schreiner

Center for Social Development Research

Resources Used to Produce Individual Development Accounts in the First Two Years of the Experimental Program of the American Dream Demonstration at the Community Action Project of Tulsa County


Linking Tax Refunds And Low-Cost Bank Accounts, Sondra G. Beverly, Jennifer Tescher, David Marzahl Jul 2000

Linking Tax Refunds And Low-Cost Bank Accounts, Sondra G. Beverly, Jennifer Tescher, David Marzahl

Center for Social Development Research

This paper was commissioned for Inclusion in Asset Building: Research and Policy Symposium, an event hosted in September 2000 by the Center for Social Development at Washington University in St. Louis. A version was subsequently developed for publication in Inclusion in the American Dream: Assets, Poverty, and Public Policy (Oxford University Press, 2005). The papert presents findings from an evaluation of the Extra Credit Savings Program (ECSP). Piloted in Chicago by ShoreBank and the Center for Law and Human Services, the program was designed to connect unbanked households to mainstream financial services and to facilitate ongoing asset accumulation in low-income …