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Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 10 - December 11, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 10 - December 11, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1991-1996, Friday Report
No abstract provided.
Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 09 - November 27, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 09 - November 27, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1991-1996, Friday Report
No abstract provided.
Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 08 - November 20, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 08 - November 20, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1991-1996, Friday Report
No abstract provided.
Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 07 - October 30, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 07 - October 30, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1991-1996, Friday Report
No abstract provided.
Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 06 - October 16, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 06 - October 16, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1991-1996, Friday Report
No abstract provided.
The Older Population In Massachusetts, 1980-1990, Gerontology Institute, University Of Massachusetts Boston
The Older Population In Massachusetts, 1980-1990, Gerontology Institute, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Gerontology Institute Publications
Massachusetts and the nation are aging! People 65 and older are growing in numbers more rapidly than other younger segments of the population, and the unprecedented growth of this group has created new demands on and new opportunities for every major sector of American life. But if we are to make constructive plans for an aging society, we must have sound information on the major changes in the make-up of the population.
This report shows how the older populations in Massachusetts and in the United States have changed in the decade between 1980 and 1990. It is designed to serve …
Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 05 - September 25, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 05 - September 25, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1991-1996, Friday Report
No abstract provided.
Editor's Note, Padraig O'Malley
Editor's Note, Padraig O'Malley
New England Journal of Public Policy
Four years ago, in the 1988 Summer/Fall issue of the New England Journal of Public Policy, we wrote,
"[The two] presidential candidates, Michael Dukakis and George Bush, [proved] themselves extraordinarily adept time and again at not addressing any of the excruciatingly difficult choices a new administration will have to make. But the realities the new president will face cannot be indefinitely obscured. The prosperity we enjoy, the unparalleled splurge in consumption during the 1980s, has been fueled by borrowing against the future. Although this observation is not especially new — and repetition has robbed it of urgency — what …
The Legacies Of Deindustrialization And The Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, Douglas M. Reynolds
The Legacies Of Deindustrialization And The Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor, Douglas M. Reynolds
New England Journal of Public Policy
Creation of the Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor and release of a master plan for cultural and physical resource development is creating a new standard for private, local, state, and federal partnerships. Actions by the Corridor's partners are shaped by both past and contemporary economic development issues. Using tools of humanistic inquiry — history, economics, preservation, sociology, political science — for social and economic purposes signifies far-reaching shifts and possibilities for public planning and policy philosophies in both public and private agencies.
Latinos In Massachusetts: Growth And Geographical Distribution, Ralph Rivera
Latinos In Massachusetts: Growth And Geographical Distribution, Ralph Rivera
New England Journal of Public Policy
Massachusetts has undergone radical changes in its racial/ethnic composition in the last ten years. The Latino population, owing to its extraordinary growth rate during the last two decades, is the largest racial/ethnic minority group in the state. Yet relatively little is known about this population because of the "information gap." Based on 1990 census data, this article focuses on the growth and geographical distribution of Latinos in Massachusetts. It considers the undercount of Latinos, the growth of Latinos in the commonwealth from a national perspective, and assesses the increase of Latinos in the New England states. It explores the growth …
The Cost Of Home Ownership In Vermont, 1975-1990, Arthur G. Woolf
The Cost Of Home Ownership In Vermont, 1975-1990, Arthur G. Woolf
New England Journal of Public Policy
Housing prices in Vermont, like those in the other New England states, shot up dramatically during the economic boom of the 1980s. This article investigates the causes of that price increase and focuses on the cost of home ownership in Vermont in the years 1975 to 1990. Cost of home ownership is defined as the percentage of family income needed to finance an average-price home. Although prices skyrocketed during the 1980s, the actual cost of home ownership as a percentage of income was about 15 percent greater in 1990 than it was during the mid-1970s. Housing price increases are expected …
New York Revisited, Shaun O'Connell
New York Revisited, Shaun O'Connell
New England Journal of Public Policy
The works discussed in this article include: City of the World: New York and Its People, by Bernie Bookbinder; New York, New York, by Oliver E. Allen; New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time, by Thomas Bender; The Heart of the World, by Nik Cohn; The Art of the City: Views and Versions of New York, by Peter Conrad; After Henry, by Joan Didion; Literary New York: A History and Guide, by Susan Edmiston and Linda D. Cirino; Our …
The Boston Harbor Cleanup, Paul F. Levy, Michael S. Connor
The Boston Harbor Cleanup, Paul F. Levy, Michael S. Connor
New England Journal of Public Policy
Boston Harbor earned a widespread reputation as "the dirtiest harbor in the nation" during the 1988 presidential campaign. Well before that campaign began, though, efforts were under way to reduce the amount of pollution entering the harbor. The Massachusetts Water Resources Authority was created in 1985 to undertake a massive public works program — including construction of a 1.3 billion-gallon-per-day sewage treatment plant and a sludge fertilizer processing plant — to end the decades-old practice of dumping sewage wastes into the ocean. The program will also cause water and sewer charges to rise dramatically during a fifteen-year period.
The project …
Umass Selects A New President: Elements Of A Search Strategy, Richard A. Hogarty
Umass Selects A New President: Elements Of A Search Strategy, Richard A. Hogarty
New England Journal of Public Policy
The selection of a new university president, an event of major importance in academic life, is usually filled with tensions on the part of those concerned about its outcome. The 1992 presidential search at the University of Massachusetts exemplifies such tensions. There were mixed reactions to the overall performance. When they finished reviewing candidates, the search committee had eliminated all but Michael K. Hooker, who, they deemed, has the necessary competence, vision, and stature for the task. The main conflict centered on the question of "process" versus "product." The trustees rejoiced in what they considered an impressive choice, while many …
A Historic Moment: Black Voters And The 1992 Presidential Race, Clarence Lusane
A Historic Moment: Black Voters And The 1992 Presidential Race, Clarence Lusane
Trotter Review
November 2, 1991, may well be remembered as a watershed date in the unique and quixotic 1992 presidential race. On that day, stating that he would "not seek the nomination for the Democratic Party," Jesse Jackson backed out of the presidential campaign spotlight and started a chain reaction that has put the black vote in perhaps its least influential position since before 1984.
Extremely low black voter turnout was one of the most significant trends of the 1992 primaries. In the Democratic contests, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton won an impressive percentage of black votes, about 70 percent. However, those votes …
A Moral Appeal To President George Bush, Jesse Jackson
A Moral Appeal To President George Bush, Jesse Jackson
Trotter Review
The following is the text of a letter written by Reverend Jesse Jackson to President George Bush dated May 1, 1991, as a plea for statehood for the District of Columbia, where 650,000 citizens are politically disenfranchised.
Vote Dilution Research: Methods Of Analysis, Sheila Ards, Marjorie Lewis
Vote Dilution Research: Methods Of Analysis, Sheila Ards, Marjorie Lewis
Trotter Review
Why have issues which disproportionately affect African Americans not been brought to the policy forefront and given attention properly so that effective solutions can be found? Because of their roles as controllers of the government's budget, politicians and other policy makers decide which problems will be addressed. It is important, therefore, that African Americans elect political candidates of their choice. In the past, African Americans largely were outside the arena of public policy setting. Thus, solutions to problems which disproportionately affected African Americans were not pursued.
Introduction, James Jennings
Introduction, James Jennings
Trotter Review
This special issue of the Trotter Review is devoted to a broad range of topics related to race, power, and voting. Although voting is a critically important political tool for black America, the vote does not necessarily guarantee that a group will enjoy power in society. At the same time that we seek greater rates of voter registration and turnout at all levels of the electoral process, we must also continue to struggle towards an agenda that delivers power to the black community.
The issue opens with an explanation of why statehood for Washington, D.C., should be a key item …
Black Women And The American Political System, Dorothy A. Clark
Black Women And The American Political System, Dorothy A. Clark
Trotter Review
Black women and politics—it is an association rarely made by the American electorate. As a group, black women have never been prominent players in the nation's political arena. In a system of decision making and power holding designed and dominated by white men, black women are an alien group in the formal political process. Their participation in that process has been limited—indeed often blocked—by a hierarchical system of race, gender, and class oppression that relegates black women to the lowest rungs of the political power ladder.
Race And Presidential Politics '92: The Challenge To Go Another Way, May Louie
Race And Presidential Politics '92: The Challenge To Go Another Way, May Louie
Trotter Review
At presidential election time in 1992, America is once again looking at limited political options for national leadership. The Republican party platform is its most conservative ever. The Democratic party ticket is dominated by southern Dixiecrats. And we who have marched and organized, and risked and sacrificed much for racial equality and political empowerment, must now match our sense of foreboding with our determination to meet the challenge before us. Jesse Jackson's 1984 and 1988 nation-shaking, agenda-setting presidential campaigns took us to places we had never been before and gave us a glimpse at the possibility of racial and economic …
Ron Daniels: Profile Of A Presidential Candidate, Harold Horton
Ron Daniels: Profile Of A Presidential Candidate, Harold Horton
Trotter Review
The mass media has said very little about it, but Ron Daniels, an African American, is a presidential candidate. In 1988, Daniels was the southern regional coordinator and deputy campaign manager for Jesse Jackson's campaign. Daniels, a veteran social and political activist as well as former director of the National Rainbow Coalition, declared his candidacy for president at a news conference October 14, 1991.
From 1974 to 1980, Daniels served as president of the National Black Political Assembly and in 1980, he was the chairperson of the founding convention of the National Black Independent Political Party. Daniels was the convener …
Voting Policy And Voter Participation: The Legacy Of The 1980s, Alex Willingham
Voting Policy And Voter Participation: The Legacy Of The 1980s, Alex Willingham
Trotter Review
It has been widely recognized, at least since the Selma march during the civil rights movement, that the interests of black citizens and other minorities are directly connected to their capacity to participate in the political process and to public policies that protect that option. The clear message of the Selma demonstration was that, for a people constrained by a broad range of oppressive racist structures, voting is a basic resource for protecting all other rights. Further, it was clear that those who control power will restrict access to the ballot as their main line of defense.
A. Philip Randolph And Boston's African-American Railroad Worker, James R. Green, Robert C. Hayden
A. Philip Randolph And Boston's African-American Railroad Worker, James R. Green, Robert C. Hayden
Trotter Review
On October 8, 1988, a group of retired Pullman car porters and dining car waiters gathered in Boston's Back Bay Station for the unveiling of a larger-than-life statue of A. Philip Randolph. During the 1920s and 1930s, Randolph was a pioneering black labor leader who led the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. He came to be considered the "father of the modern civil rights movement" as a result of his efforts to desegregate World War II defense jobs and the military services. Randolph's importance as a militant leader is highlighted by a quote inscribed on the base of the statue …
Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 04 - September 18, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 04 - September 18, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1991-1996, Friday Report
No abstract provided.
Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 03 - September 11, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 03 - September 11, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1991-1996, Friday Report
No abstract provided.
Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 02 - August 14, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 02 - August 14, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1991-1996, Friday Report
No abstract provided.
Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 01 - July 10, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Friday Report - Vol. 02, No. 01 - July 10, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1991-1996, Friday Report
No abstract provided.
Friday Report - Vol. 01, No. 20 - June 19, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Friday Report - Vol. 01, No. 20 - June 19, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1991-1996, Friday Report
No abstract provided.
Friday Report - Vol. 01, No. 19 - June 5, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Friday Report - Vol. 01, No. 19 - June 5, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1991-1996, Friday Report
No abstract provided.
Friday Report - Vol. 01, No. 18 - May 15, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
Friday Report - Vol. 01, No. 18 - May 15, 1992, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1991-1996, Friday Report
No abstract provided.