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News & Views - Vol. 05, No. 04 - November 10, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
News & Views - Vol. 05, No. 04 - November 10, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1983-1991, News & Views
No abstract provided.
News & Views - Vol. 05, No. 03 - October 14, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
News & Views - Vol. 05, No. 03 - October 14, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1983-1991, News & Views
No abstract provided.
News & Views - Vol. 05, No. 02 - September 15, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
News & Views - Vol. 05, No. 02 - September 15, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1983-1991, News & Views
No abstract provided.
News & Views - Vol. 05, No. 01 - September 2, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
News & Views - Vol. 05, No. 01 - September 2, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1983-1991, News & Views
No abstract provided.
The Next Threshold: Higher Skills And The New England Economy, John C. Hoy
The Next Threshold: Higher Skills And The New England Economy, John C. Hoy
New England Journal of Public Policy
The history of the New England regional economy — its attenuated post-World War II decline and subsequent aggressive renewal — reveals an intensifying relationship between economic resurgence, the supply and continuing demand for professional manpower, and the results of academic research and development. The New England region has "outproduced" the rest of the nation in supplying professionally trained men and women, a leading factor not fully appreciated by those describing the region's robust economic health in the decade since Neal Peirce wrote The New England States. New England's "oversupply" in professional fields has given the high-tech and sophisticated services …
Poverty Amid Renewed Affluence: The Poor Of New England At Mid-Decade, Andrew M. Sum, Paul E. Harrington, William B. Goedicke, Robert Vinson
Poverty Amid Renewed Affluence: The Poor Of New England At Mid-Decade, Andrew M. Sum, Paul E. Harrington, William B. Goedicke, Robert Vinson
New England Journal of Public Policy
This article examines the problem of poverty in New England during the current period of economic prosperity. Major trends in the size and composition of the poor population within the region are analyzed. Striking changes in the relative incidence of poverty have occurred among families in New England. As the economy has moved toward full employment, poverty rates among husband-wife families in the region have fallen sharply. In contrast, female-headed families in New England have not benefited substantially from recent rapid increases in employment opportunities. The result has been a persistent trend toward the feminization of poverty in New England. …
The Reclamation Of Boston Harbor: A Scientist's Perspective, Gordon T. Wallace Jr.
The Reclamation Of Boston Harbor: A Scientist's Perspective, Gordon T. Wallace Jr.
New England Journal of Public Policy
A major effort, costing in the neighborhood of $2 billion, is under way to restore the environmental quality of Boston Harbor. While Boston Harbor is unquestionably one of the most polluted urban estuaries in the world, it is also one of the least understood with respect to the basic physics, chemistry, and biology involved. This information is essential for the purpose of identifying processes that control the transport, effect, and fate of contaminants entering the estuary. Failure to obtain this information may lead to continued inappropriate and unnecessarily expensive solutions to a complex environmental problem. An effective solution will require …
Demographic Trends In Boston: Some Implications For Municipal Services, Margaret O'Brien
Demographic Trends In Boston: Some Implications For Municipal Services, Margaret O'Brien
New England Journal of Public Policy
The City of Boston is gaining in population during the 1980s, after several decades of loss. During the current decade and beyond, population trends will bring increases in the number of children, adults between the ages of twenty-five and forty-four, and those aged seventy-five and over, along with declines among the older teenagers and college-age population, the more mature adults, and the younger elderly. A recent analysis of the income distribution indicates that while there were more well-to-do residents in Boston in 1985 than there were in 1980, there were also more poor and near poor. Average family income has …
Editor's Note, Padraig O'Malley
Editor's Note, Padraig O'Malley
New England Journal of Public Policy
In recent years, New England has done itself proud. The chronic post-World War II decline in its manufacturing sector has been replaced by what for the present at least continues to be a record growth in services directly and indirectly related to high technology and a continuing competitiveness in high technology itself. As a result, the region leads the nation in growth in per capita income and enjoys the lowest level of unemployment in the country as well. Self-congratulation, however, is too often a prescription for complacency, and complacency inhibits the kind of searching inquiry which assumes that economic miracles …
Managing Change: Reflections On Innovation In The Public Sector, Ira A. Jackson, Jane P. O'Hern
Managing Change: Reflections On Innovation In The Public Sector, Ira A. Jackson, Jane P. O'Hern
New England Journal of Public Policy
In January 1983, when Governor Michael S. Dukakis appointed Ira Jackson as commissioner of revenue, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was facing an estimated $300 million deficit. The state was also suffering from a severe loss of public confidence in the integrity of its tax administration. His first and most urgent priority being the restoration of that confidence, Commissioner Jackson implemented a three-part strategy to improve voluntary compliance with the tax laws: raising the stakes for evaders, treating honest taxpayers as customers rather than victims, and changing public attitudes about tax evasion. Productivity gains and innovative procedures at the Department of …
Imagining Boston: The City As Image And Experience, Shaun O'Connell
Imagining Boston: The City As Image And Experience, Shaun O'Connell
New England Journal of Public Policy
I want to discuss community and imagery, social division and literary unity, Boston poetry and prose. In most issues of NEJPP I will focus upon those recent books that fire our imaginations and help us shape our sense of local and regional place. In this issue, however, I want to look back at the tradition of imagery that resonates in Boston's history. Old ideas of Boston are quickly being buried under layers of architectural and cultural renewal. While the suburbs become more urbanized and the commuter roads more clogged, downtown Boston is in the midst of the greatest building boom …
News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 15 - June 16, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 15 - June 16, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1983-1991, News & Views
No abstract provided.
News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 14 - May 19, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 14 - May 19, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1983-1991, News & Views
No abstract provided.
News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 13 - April 18, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 13 - April 18, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1983-1991, News & Views
No abstract provided.
News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 12 - April 7, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 12 - April 7, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1983-1991, News & Views
No abstract provided.
Seniority And Affirmative Action: The Shadow Of Stotts, Drew S. Days Iii
Seniority And Affirmative Action: The Shadow Of Stotts, Drew S. Days Iii
William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications
The purpose of this paper is to discuss why I think the Reagan administration's avowed commitment to helping only "actual victims" of racial discrimination retards rather than advances the cause of civil rights. I make reference in my title to "seniority" and "the shadow of Stotts" because the current administration is relying upon Supreme Court decisions having to do with seniority, particularly its 1984 opinion in Memphis Firefighters v. Stotts, to justify a wholesale attack upon race-conscious remedies, not only in employment but in education and public contracting as well.
Affirmative Action: Problems And Perspectives, Clarence M. Pendleton
Affirmative Action: Problems And Perspectives, Clarence M. Pendleton
William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications
If I sound a little bit incoherent it is because I have only been in California for ten hours in the last three weeks, and that was just to change clothes and change bags and hug my little six-year-old tight and spend some time with my wife. I got back in last Tuesday night from a trip to the East Coast by way of Salt Lake City and got up at 2:00 a.m. to be at a local television show to be able to be on the "CBS Morning News." My options were slim-either go to New York and do …
News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 11 - March 24, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 11 - March 24, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1983-1991, News & Views
No abstract provided.
Affirmative Action: Problems And Prospects, James Farmer
Affirmative Action: Problems And Prospects, James Farmer
William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications
Affirmative action has had an interesting history. I, with no attempted modesty, claim to have proposed the idea to Lyndon Johnson in either late 1962 or early 1963 when he was vice president. The only person I known who would disagree with me on that is the late Whitney Young, and he is not present to voice his disagreement now. When I reported to the Council on United Civil Rights Leadership, the group that was called the "Big Six" or the "Big Four" by the media, that I had had such a meeting with Vice President Lyndon Johnson and had …
News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 10 - February 24, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 10 - February 24, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1983-1991, News & Views
No abstract provided.
News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 09 - February 10, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 09 - February 10, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1983-1991, News & Views
No abstract provided.
News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 08 - January 27, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
News & Views - Vol. 04, No. 08 - January 27, 1986, University Of Massachusetts Boston
1983-1991, News & Views
No abstract provided.
De Facto New Federalism And New England: A Discussion, Kenneth Curtis, Chester Atkins, Richard Licht, David Walker, Roger Porter
De Facto New Federalism And New England: A Discussion, Kenneth Curtis, Chester Atkins, Richard Licht, David Walker, Roger Porter
New England Journal of Public Policy
Using John Shannons paper as a broad frame of reference (see previous article), a panel discussion titled "The Changing Nature of FederalI State Relations: The Fiscal Impact on New England" took place on 18 November 1985 at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. The discussion was sponsored by the John W. McCormack Institute of Public Affairs and was presented in a roundtable forum. The members of the panel were Kenneth Curtis, former governor of Maine; Chester Atkins, member of Congress from the Massachusetts Fifth Congressional District; Richard Licht, lieutenant governor of Rhode Island; David Walker, professor of political science at …
War Stories--Defense Spending And The Growth Of The Massachusetts Economy, David L. Warsh
War Stories--Defense Spending And The Growth Of The Massachusetts Economy, David L. Warsh
New England Journal of Public Policy
The defense industry has been an integral part of the Massachusetts economy since colonial days, and the Watertown Arsenal and Springfield rifle are virtually synonymous with the capital-intensive arms business of the nineteenth century. But after World War II, here as elsewhere, defense production became far more deeply embedded in the state 's division of labor, with the result that today it is hard to tell what is of military origin and what is not: the minicomputer and software industries, in their entirety, are properly viewed as a spin-off from the Cold War and the space race, for example. The …
Rhode Island: The Defeat Of The Greenhouse Compact, Ira Magaziner
Rhode Island: The Defeat Of The Greenhouse Compact, Ira Magaziner
New England Journal of Public Policy
Rhode Island has not shared equally in New England's economic resurgence of recent years. A major reevaluation of the state's economic malaise in 1982-84 resulted in a $250 million program called the Greenhouse Compact to improve business in the state. Initially supported in polls by a two-to-one margin, the Compact was defeated overwhelmingly when it went to a statewide referendum. The timing of the referendum and mistakes in the public relations strategy and in the structure of the Compact all played a role in the outcome, but post-election polls showed that defeat, based on a massive shift of undecided voters, …
Editor's Note, Padraig O'Malley
Editor's Note, Padraig O'Malley
New England Journal of Public Policy
Today much of public policy debate takes place in a social vacuum. This is so in part because policy issues are often rather arbitrarily assigned to particular and seemingly unconnected disciplines that put a premium on maintaining their separate baronies of intellectual hegemony, and in part because of our too-pervasive propensity to compartmentalize in order to simplify. One of the aims of the New England Journal of Public Policy is to invade, as it were, these baronies, to liberate the policy issues held hostage there and release them into a broader, more human context, one that accentuates the idea of …
De Facto New Federalism: Phase Ii?, John Shannon
De Facto New Federalism: Phase Ii?, John Shannon
New England Journal of Public Policy
1985 marked year seven for de facto new federalism, the fiscal decentralization process nudged along by strong public support for the Reagan administration's conservative policies and growing fiscal stringency at the federal level. New federalism is most dramatically illustrated by the national government retreat along the entire state-local aid front — a kind of "sorting out" — as an increasing share of the federal budget goes to strictly national government programs. The mounting public concern about massive federal deficits will quicken the federal pullback on the state-local aid front. The only question is whether it will be a ragged retreat …
Regionalism: The Next Step, Ian Menzies
Regionalism: The Next Step, Ian Menzies
New England Journal of Public Policy
Although the New England states have, over the years, been regionally cooperative, they have not formally advanced the process since the establishment of the New England Governors' Conference in 1937. There is still no regional government in New England; no body politic that can enact regionwide laws; no organization authorized to perform regionwide planning, or with the power to regulate or direct growth and development or manage natural resources. There isn't even a public forum or assembly where such issues can be discussed. This article reviews the history of regionalism in New England and proposes that the six states develop …
Boston School Desegregation: The Fallowness Of Common Ground, Robert A. Dentler
Boston School Desegregation: The Fallowness Of Common Ground, Robert A. Dentler
New England Journal of Public Policy
This essay scrutinizes the book by J. Anthony Lukas, Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families, to assess whether it presents a valid and reliable account of the issues, people, and events it chronicles. The substantive core of the book is shown to be the politics of Boston public school desegregation. The parts played by the three families in this event are dramatically portrayed but cannot be corroborated and are not interpreted. The parts played by five major policy leaders, when tested against other evidence, are found to be distorted, questionable legends woven in …
Race And Class In American Race Relations Theory, 1894-1939, Vernon Williams Jr.
Race And Class In American Race Relations Theory, 1894-1939, Vernon Williams Jr.
William Monroe Trotter Institute Publications
The purpose of this essay is to identify the origins of the debate between Wilson and Pinkney. The period covered focuses on the years 1894 to 1939 - from the publication of Franz Boas's "Human Faculty as Determined by Race" in the Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1894, to the publications of Robert E. Park's "The Nature of Race Relations" in 1939. It is my argument that the parameters of the discussion regarding the progressiveness of race relations in the United States were defined during these years, and that all current theories are but …