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The Economic Context: Growing Disparities Of Income And Wealth, Chuck Collins

New England Journal of Public Policy

In the last few years, poverty rates have remained constant in the New England states. The effort to reduce poverty in New England and the United States has been thwarted by trends of growing income and wealth inequality. Since the late 1970s, the real incomes for the majority of U.S. households have remained stagnant or fallen. During the same time, asset ownership has become dramatically more unequal, and the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few has increased. The causes of this accelerated inequality are complex, but underlying the picture are a series of rule changes, both public …

Child Care: Four Decades Of Growth And Change, Bruce Hershfield, John Sciamanna

New England Journal of Public Policy

Child care has grown and changed over the past four decades. The federal government now has two major early education programs, Head Start and the Child Care and Development Block Grant. Although Head Start was enacted in 1965 and has had mostly bipartisan support, it took the federal government until 1990 to enact a national child care program. Massachusetts, led by an active advocacy community and strong leadership in the state legislature, has been a leader among states in support for child care funding and policies. It is its support for strong licensing, periodic increases in reimbursement rates, parental choice, …

Hollins Columns (2004 Sept 21), Hollins College

Hollins Student Newspapers

Table of Contents:

• SGA Treasurer Announces Resignation
• Healthcare Provider Changes on Campus
• Computer Registration and Printing Causes Student Concern
• Student Organizes Vigil to honor 1,000 Fallen Soldiers
• Hollins Express offers Cheap Alternative Route to Virginia Tech
• New President Gray Prepares for her Arrival on Campus
• New Visual Arts Center and Museum Open to Viewers
• Fantasy Creative Workshop Once Again Directed by Students
• Campus no Longer #1 for Quality, Riding Program Tops Charts
• Dear Editors
• Ignorance is Not Always Bliss
• I Get By With a Little Help From my Friends
• Miller's Moves
• X-C Captain named Athlete of the Week

Devolution: The Retreat Of Government, Judith Kurland

New England Journal of Public Policy

Devolution as practiced in much of the world is decentralization of program authority and responsibility to achieve greater administrative efficiency or program standards. Devolution as practiced by the Bush administration and the Republican Congress is not that, nor is it a diminution of federal power and the strengthening of states’ rights. Rather, it is a radical restructuring of government to prevent the expenditure of funds for traditional Democratic programs of the New Deal and the Great Society, and to prohibit states from being either more generous in social programs or more stringent in regulating industry than this administration desires.

The Community Action Principle: Subjects Not Objects, Barney Frank

New England Journal of Public Policy

Deals with the impact of community action programs in the international and domestic economic policies. Influence of political participation on the application of democratic principles in politics; Background of economic policies by former U.S. Presidents regarding the free enterprise system; Relevance of community action on the formulation of international economic policies.

Moving Target: The Dilemma Of Serving Massachusetts Poor Families, Randy Albelda

New England Journal of Public Policy

While Community Action Agencies’ original mission of serving the poor has changed little over the last three decades, government commitments to the poor, the population of poor individuals and families, and women’s economic expectations have changed considerably. This article documents the trends in family structure, women’s employment patterns, and poverty policies in Massachusetts between 1970 and 2000. The increase in poor, single-mother families and poverty policies that emphasize employment present dynamic challenges for Community Action Agencies (and others who serve the poor), but also create some new organizing opportunities.

A Portrait Of Asian Americans In Metro Boston, Paul Watanabe, Michael Liu, Shauna Lo

New England Journal of Public Policy

The Asian American population of metropolitan Boston has grown rapidly and in extraordinary numbers. This article describes the great variety within the population with the purpose of fostering effective analysis, policy making, and service delivery.

Interrupted Progress: Forty Years Of Child Poverty, Deborah Weinstein

New England Journal of Public Policy

In the last forty years since the beginning of the war on poverty, the condition of poor children has improved and the percentage of children living in poverty has declined. Children and their families made the greatest gain when there was a good economy and an increase in government supports. But when such investments shrink, as they have in recent years, progress is impeded. Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) must be reauthorized by Congress. The legislation now under discussion does not encourage states to replicate programs that have increased work and family income and helped children.

Challenging The Policy Establishment, Alice O'Connor

New England Journal of Public Policy

Among the many challenges community action faces after four decades, none cuts more deeply into its central mission than the political and ideological transformation reflected in the rise of the conservative right. Based on a potent combination of grass roots and institutional organizing, coalition-building, ideological mobilization, and inter/intra party politics, the right-wing takeover has empowered a political and policy establishment that is hostile not only to the ideas that animated the War on Poverty but to the very idea of public action against social and economic inequality. While this transformation has kept community action on the defensive, confronting the challenge …

Community Action In Massachusetts, Jim Canavan

New England Journal of Public Policy

Evaluates the contribution of community action agencies (CCA) in alleviating poverty in Massachusetts from its creation during the term of former U.S. President Lyndon Johnson until 2004. Description of the programs to the poor offered by CCAs; Operation of CCAs across the state; Affordable housing offered by the CCAs.

Ideas Of Reform: Like Buddhist Souls, Peter Marris, Martin Rein

New England Journal of Public Policy

In 1967 Martin Rein and Peter Marris wrote an important book exploring the projects leading to the development of community action and related programs of the Great Society. In it they describe reform as a diffuse process in which preferences clash and evolve. Purposeful reform rarely has the intended consequences. The selection below is taken from the concluding remarks of their book, The Dilemmas of Social Reform, copyright University of Chicago Press, and is reprinted here with permission.

The Nonprofit Sector And The Will To Change, Pablo Eisenberg

New England Journal of Public Policy

A greater portion of our nonprofit activities in the future will have to be devoted to policies and actions that can produce constructive change. The extraordinary problems of our society as we enter the twenty-first century — poverty, racism, environmental degradation, lack of health protection, declining trust in governments — can only be tackled by strong policy work, advocacy, and citizen mobilization. The author outlines seven challenges that nonprofits need to address including promoting democracy, strengthening government, asuring public accountability, redefining the nonprofit sector, reforming philanthropy, developing new leadership, and engaging institutions of higher learning in promoting democracies and communities. …

Spartan Daily, September 20, 2004, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 123, Issue 15

Grand Valley Forum, Volume 029, Number 08, September 20, 2004, Grand Valley State University

2004-2005, Volume 29

Grand Valley Forum is Grand Valley State's faculty and staff newsletter, published from 1976 to the present.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 No. 10, September 20, 2004

Central Florida Future

Expensive majors can cost thousands more: Learning how to budget is essential; Where does tuition go? Breaking it down one fee at a time; Get out in four years: U Can't Finish grads catching up; Running for senate a race before it begins: Candidates time declaring intention.

St. Mark’S Catholic Community Of The Deaf, September 19, 2004

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf

A newsletter published for Deaf Catholics in Edmonton, Canada

Saint Mark's Catholic Community of the Deaf Finding Aid

Spartan Daily, September 17, 2004, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 123, Issue 14

City Club Of Portland Resolution Of The Board Of Governors Support Of Proposed "Clean Money Campaigns In Portland" Draft Proposal, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, September 16, 2004, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 123, Issue 13

Ua12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 80, No. 7, Wku Student Affairs

WKU Administration Documents

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles:

• Richardson, Kelly. Student Arrested for Attempted Homicide – Antwuan Thomas
• Reed, Lindsey. George Bush Leads in Kentucky Poll
• Clark, Ashlee. Program Ready to Aid Disabled – Best Expectations
• Salmon, Emily. Make Mine Large – Morgan Spurlock
• Wilberding, Beth. Patti Johnson, 23 Senators Win Student Government Association Elections
• Politicians Should Stick to Important Issues
• Henze, Adam. Editorial Cartoon re: Same Sex Marriage
• Ortega, Amanda. Doesn’t Agree Homosexuals Should Marry Heterosexuals
• Riley, Cassandra. People Should Be Able to Marry the Person of Their Choice
• Newby, Nathan. Homosexuality …

Envisioning The Future Of The Information Commons Through Technology, Michael D. Miller

Robert E. Kennedy Library

No abstract provided.

Prospectus, September 16, 2004, Leah Nelson, Ryan Wheeler, Alison Smith, Nicole Simmons, Jon Volkman, Chris Cunningham, Sarah Trusty

Prospectus 2004

No abstract provided.

The Antelope, University Of Nebraska At Kearney

The Antelope

No abstract provided.

Ddasaccident460, Hd-Aid

Global CWD Repository

In a non-marked lane, deminer [Victim No.1] tried to identify the source of a metal-detector signal by using a prodder and an excavation tool. He possibly used the prodder and the excavation tool simultaneously to achieve higher productivity. The star of the PROM-1 was above the ground surface. Therefore it is not likely that the mine was activated with a prodder. It is most likely that it was activated with inappropriate excavation tool. The examination of the area cleared in the days before the accident leads to the conclusion that vertical excavation had been performed, which is characteristic for non-demining …

The Cowl - V. 69 N. 1 - September 16, 2004 - Welcome Back Issue

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol. 69 No. 1 - September 16, 2004 - Welcome Back Issue. 8 pages.

The Cowl - V. 69 N. 1 - September 16, 2004

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Vol. 69 No. 1 - September 16, 2004. 24 pages.

Central Florida Future, Vol. 37 No. 09, September 16, 2004

Central Florida Future

Hurricane delays replace 'dog ate it' as excuse: Disruptions in schedules test dates distract; Sound of alarms: Deputies arrest car burglary suspects; Knightstock II: Deja vu: Campus concert returns with familiar faces and new names; Procrastinators can still run for Senate; Assault gun used in attack on Miami officer: Days before ban is lifted weapon injured woman.

Lanthorn, Vol. 39, No. 05, September 16, 2004, Grand Valley State University

Volume 39, July 15, 2004 - June 16, 2005

Lanthorn is Grand Valley State's student newspaper, published from 1968 to the present.

Filter-Tipped Libraries, Mark Y. Herring

Dacus Library Faculty Publications

Is it possible to say something positive about Internet filtering in libraries and not have everyone, including your mother, call you a wild-eyed, hidebound, neo-Nazi bashi-bazouk? No, of course not, but I'm going to try to anyway.

Spartan Daily, September 15, 2004, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 123, Issue 12