-Caveat Lector- ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 23, 1999 12:58 PM Subject: EPN News: April 23, 1999 : : ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| : : E P N N e w s : 4.23.1999 : : NEW RELEASES : on the : ELECTRONIC POLICY NETWORK : http://epn.org : : |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| : : : SPECIAL : ------------------------------------------------- : EPN Columnist Richard Rothstein : on "Race, Class, and SATs: : How Do Colleges Admit the Most Qualified?" : http://www.epn.org : ------------------------------------------------ : : : In This Issue: : : 1. American Prospect : 2. Brookings Institution : 3. Center on Budget & Policy Priorities : 4. Center for Responsive Politics : 5. Citizens Budget Commission : 6. Economic Policy Institute : 7. Financial Markets Center : 8. Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern : 9. Jerome Levy Economics Institute : 10. New Jersey Policy Perspective : 11. Public Campaign : 12. Robert B. Reich : 13. Robert Kuttner : : : The American Prospect : ------------------------------------------ : Peter Barnes on pollution as a potential source of public revenue in : "The Pollution Dividend" : http://www.americanprospect.org : : : Brookings Institution : ------------------------------------------ : Latest policy brief: Children's Roundtable Report #1, "Investing in : Children," Projected government budget surpluses of $2.6 trillion over the : next decade are guaranteed to renew the debate over the best use of : federal funds. We should use a portion of these funds to provide quality : child care and preschool education to low-income children, including those : whose mothers now must work because of welfare reform. : http://www.brookings.edu/comm/ConferenceReport/cr2/cr2.htm. : : : Center on Budget and Policy Priorities : ------------------------------------------------------------ : "The Abraham-Domenici Lock Box Legislation," : the Center's new analysis of this proposal is posted to: : http://www.cbpp.org/4-21-99bud.htm : : Tax Foundation Figures Produce Misleading and Inaccurate Impressions : of Middle Class Tax Burdens," by Iris J. Lav, Isaac : Shapiro, and Robert Greenstein is posted to: : http://www.cbpp.org/4-15-99tax.htm : : "Taxes on Middle-Income Families Are Declining," by Iris J. Lav can be : viewed through: http://www.cbpp.org/4-14-99tax.htm : : : : Center for Responsive Politics : -------------------------------------------------- : The Center for Responsive Politics' weekly Money in Politics Alert this : week looks at the political money behind the debate over electric utility : deregulation, a hotly debated topic that will have an impact on consumers : nationwide. http://www.opensecrets.org/alerts/v5/alertv5_13.htm : : In addition, the Center for Responsive Politics has posted detailed, : online data on the first set of campaign finance filings by 2000 : presidential candidates. : http://www.opensecrets.org/2000elect/pres_total.htm : : : : Citizens Budget Commission (NY) : -------------------------------------------------- : Letter to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani - April 14, 1999 : Recommendations For Fiscal Year 2000 Budget : http://epn.org/cbc : : : : Economic Policy Institute : --------------------------------------------- : EPI's latest book, "Taming Global Finance," by Robert : Blecker, examines the impact of capital market : liberalization and finds that it has created much : economic instability and has failed to deliver on the : promise of increased growth. For an executive summary : and press release, see http://epinet.org : : : : Financial Markets Center : ----------------------------------------------- : Stubborn Crises, Fresh Remedies : : The Financial Markets Center begins a series of prescriptive commentaries : on the world's recurring financial crises and resulting economic turmoil. : First up: two prominent localist thinkers, David Morris of the Institute : for Local Self-Reliance and Michael Shuman of the Institute for Economic : Empowerment and Entrepreneurship of the Village Foundation. : http://www.fmcenter.org : : : Institute for Policy Research : ----------------------------------------------------------- : The University Consortium on Welfare Reform, based at Northwestern's : Institute for Policy Research, will study the impact of new state welfare : laws on former and current Illinois recipients and their families. Three : foundations have awarded $1.3-million for the ambitious six-year panel : study headed by IPR faculty fellow Dan Lewis, a professor of education and : social policy at Northwestern. See : http://www.nwu.edu/IPR/news/welfarereform.html : : : Jerome Levy Economics Institute : --------------------------------------------------- : Latest issue of the Summary, Spring 1999 : The Minimum Wage in Historical Perspective * Constructing Long and : Dense Times-Series of Inequality Using the Theil Statistic * Women's : Work? School Teaching across American Regions * Is Keynesianism : Institutionalist? * Government Spending and Growth Cycles * : Distributional Effects of Disinflationary Monetary Policy * President : Clinton's Proposed Social Security Reform * How Negative Can U.S. : Saving Get? * From Common Market to EMU : http://www.levy.org/docs/sumspri99.html : : : New Jersey Policy Perspective : ------------------------------------------------ : Covered in the NY Times : http://tap.epn.org/njpp/njpp-nyt/index.html : : : : Public Campaign : ------------------------------------------------ : : PUBLIC CAMPAIGN AD TARGETS MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FOR BEING : "LEASHED" TO THEIR SPECIAL INTEREST CONTRIBUTORS : The Ad The New York Times Refused to Print : Pres Release: http://www.publicampaign.org/press_releases/pr4_21_99.html : Ad: http://www.publicampaign/org/leashad.html : : Latest OUCH! Buletin : "JUST WHEN YOU THOUGHT THE 'LOOTING DECADE' WAS OVER... " : http://www.publicampaign.org/ouch4_19_99.html : : : : Robert B. Reich : ----------------------------- : "In Kosovo, Power of Tribe Outweighs Power of Technology" : : "Where Clinton's Third Way Went Wrong," : : "JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES; His radical idea that governments should : spend money they don't have may have saved capitalism , : http://epn.org/reich.html : : : : Robert Kuttner : ----------------------------- : Robert Kuttner's latest column,"The Nanny Millionaire." : http://epn.org/kuttner/bk990421.html : : : : : ------------------------------ : EPN JOBS & EVENTS : ------------------------------ : The place to find policy-oriented and progressive employment. : http://epn.org/epn-jobs.html : : Get out of the office - events in the policy community. : http://epn.org/events.html : : : : ---------------------------------------------- : Subscribe/Unsubscribe : ---------------------------------------------- : : To subscribe to EPN News send email to : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with : : subscribe epnnews : : in the message body. : : To unsubscribe to EPN News send email to : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with : : unsubscribe epnnews : : in the message body. : : : -------------------------------------------------------------------------- : We welcome your questions, suggestions, : and comments about EPN News. : Send us your thoughts at mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : -------------------------------------------------------------------------- : ------------------- : David Fine : Manager, The Electronic Policy Network : a project of The American Prospect : http://epn.org : 617-547-2950 : ~~~~~~~~~~~~ A<>E<>R The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. -Johann Christoph Schiller, German Writer (1759-1805) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Forwarded as information only; no endorsement to be presumed + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without charge or profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this type of information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. 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