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Do Public Expendintures Improve Child Outcomes In The U.S.: A Comparison Across Fifty States, Nancy Folbre, Kristen Harknett, Irwin Garfinkel, Jay Bainbridge, Timothy Smeeding

Nancy Folbre

Our paper utilizes variation across the fifty U.S. states to examine the relationship between public expenditures on children and child outcomes. We find that public expenditures on children are related to better child outcomes across a wide range of indicators including measures of child mortality, elementary-school test scores, and adolescent behavioral outcomes. States that spend more on children have better child outcomes even after taking into account potential confounding influences. Our results are robust to numerous variations in model specifications and to the inclusion of proxies for unobserved characteristics of states. Our sensitivity analyses suggest that the results we present …

Klipsun Magazine, 2003, Volume 35, Issue 01 - March, Karla Tillman

Klipsun Magazine

Like many of you, my time is limited. To keep myself orga­ nized, every day I write a list of things to do. It’s always a very long list of things such as, “Finish essay,” “Go to gym” or “Do laundry.”

But after reading the stories in this issue of Klipsun, I was inspired to write a more important list of “Things to Do.” I wrote a list of things to do in my lifetime. Several of the stories in this issue feature local people who have made sacrifices for the sake of others or have set incredible goals for …

Herbert E. Cihak & Joan S. Howland's Leadership Roles For Librarians, Ellen T. Mcgrath

Law Librarian Book Reviews

No abstract provided.

United States And Mexico: Identification And Analysis Of Trade Statistics Data Sets, Carlos Olmedo, Daniel Carrasco-Terrazas

IPED Technical Reports

No abstract provided.

Population Growth In Oregon: 2000 To 2002, Portland State University. Population Research Center, Qian Cai, Barry Edmonston, George C. Hough Jr.

Oregon Population Estimates and Reports

This report presents population estimates for Oregon and its counties and incorporated cities for July 1, 2002. The eleven tables in this report show current 2002 population estimates as well as historical data. Supplements to the 2002 Population Report are included.

New Expression: March 2003 (Volume 26, Issue 2), Columbia College Chicago

New Expression

March 2003, Volume 26, Issue 2, edition of New Expression, a news publication researched, contributed, written, and edited by Chicago high school journalists

The Portland Region: How Are We Doing? Highlights Of The Region, Metro (Or.)

Metro Collection

No abstract provided.

Low-Fired Earthenwares In The African Diaspora: Problems And Prospects, Mark W. Hauser, Christopher R. Decorse

Anthropology - All Scholarship

Local earthenware associated with enslaved African populations in the Americas, variously called “Colono-Ware,” “Afro-CaribbeanWare.” “Yabbas,” and “Criollo ware,” has received considerable attention from researchers. What unifies this disparate group of ceramics is not method of manufacture, design and decoration, or even form and function but the association or potential association with African diaspora populations. The ceramics incorporate some skills and techniques possibly brought by African potters to the Americas, as well as skills reflecting European and Native American traditions, and local adaptations in form, function, and manufacture.Analogies linking African ceramic traditions to American industries have at times been employed uncritically …

Chronic Illness And Academic Accommodation: Meeting Disabled Students' "Unique Needs" And Preserving The Institutional Order Of The University, Karen E. Jung

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

People with disabilities are just one of the groups designated for special attention in relation to equity in postsecondary education. This paper explores the way in which policies that provide academic accommodation for students disabled by chronic illness unfold in practice. As part of the administrative regime of the university, these policies are typically designed to reconcile the interests and relevances of the law with the interests and relevances of the academy. When a disabled student "activates" the policy, regardless of whether or not services and assistance are provided or are useful, the student becomes situated within social relations that …

Mine Action In Afghanistan: Transitional Options, Gichd

Global CWD Repository

This report examines the options for transition from a United Nations Mine Action Centre for Afghanistan (UNMACA) to one under national government management. The report was commissioned by the UNDP Bureau of Crisis Prevention and Recovery in February 2003. It discusses four options for transition, and provides background to the conclusions and recommendations.

Managed Care Corporate Failures: An Overview Of Bankruptcy And Insurance Insolvency Procedures, Sara J. Rosenbaum

Health Policy and Management Issue Briefs

This Issue Brief examines managed care corporate failures and the legal process. Managed care organizations are corporate hybrids that possess the features of both insurance and health care. As a result, the question of whether the proper legal forum for addressing a failure is the federal bankruptcy process or state insurance insolvency procedures is a complex one. The answer to this question is more than academic: legal protections for purchasers, members, and health care providers differ significantly depending on which legal system is used.

Nexus, Spring 2003, Wright State University Community

Nexus Literary Journal

Nexus is a magazine that began as an insert in the Wright State Guardian student newspaper in 1965 and has since been published semi-regularly. It began only accepting creative writing, but has since expanded to include illustrations, photography and other non-written art forms. Today, it is published in a digital format and accepts submissions from around the country, though it maintains its commitment to the Wright State Community.

Journalist / The Ledger 2003, University Of Washington - Tacoma Campus, Moscow State University

Journalist

"UWT leaders speak out about war coverage" by Karie Anderson

"Chechnya: Road blocks on information" by Elena Racheva

"War as a TV-action" by Rafel Saakov

"Internet lacking credibility" by Yevgeniya Dulo

"Unnecessary blocking: Foundation says censorware needs to go" by Tolena Mahlum

"Politics driving economic pressure for journalists" by Anton Maniashin, Galina Tischenko, Anna Tolokonnikova, Natalie Vyalkina

"Financial pressures changing today's newsroom" by Karie Anderson

"Television: A news source or entertainment?" by Natalie Varentsova

"The most famous Americans in Russia" by Rafael Saakov

"Free press becoming global" by Tolena Mahlum

"Do we trust the media?" by Yevgeniya Dulo

"Baby Sophia …

Novel Pharmacophore Based Methods Reveal Gossypol As A Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitor, Paul A. Keller, C. Birch, S. P. Leach, D. Tyssen, R. Griffith

Faculty of Science - Papers (Archive)

In a program to identify new structural entities for the inhibition of the HIV-1 reverse transcriptase (RT) enzyme via database searching, a series of RT pharmacophores were developed. By utilising a novel filtering technique, the National Cancer Institute database of compounds was scanned producing 15 compounds to be screened for activity. A notable inclusion was a series of gossypol derivatives. The testing of a series of compounds revealed the parent compound gossypol to be an HIV-1 reverse transcriptase inhibitor. These results suggest that at least part of its anti-HIV activity is due to gossypol targeting the non-nucleoside inhibitor binding pocket …

Nonviolence And Communication, Brian Martin, W. Varney

Faculty of Arts - Papers (Archive)

Communication is central to the effectiveness of nonviolent action: methods of protest and persuasion are essentially means of communication, while methods of noncooperation and nonviolent intervention have crucial communicative dimensions. As a mode of political communication, nonviolence can be contrasted with rational dialogue, electoral politics and violence, and stands out from them in combining high transformative potential with dialogue and participation. The more well studied dimensions of nonviolence as communication are dialogue with opponents, power equalization to prepare for dialogue, and mobilization of third parties. To these should be added two further dimensions, collective and individual empowerment. Two cases of …

Toward Better Environmental Education, Jane S. Shaw

Center for Applied Economics

Current environmental education is exaggerated. Both sides of environmental issues need to be explored to properly address issues.

Antiracism Discourse: The Ideological Circle In A Child World, Miu Chung Yan

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Antiracism is a dominant discourse in contemporary societies. The understanding of antiracism, however, varies. Government, through its own textually mediated organization of apparatus, tends to homogenize the discourse. This paper is to demonstrate, by employing institutional ethnography, how a child's act can ignite the socially organized textual engine to include the children's world in the ideological circle of antiracism discourse dominated by the government. Institutional ethnography, as demonstrated in this paper, is a useful tool for social workers to deconstruct the textual condition in which social work practice is embedded. The ideological circle is a powerful concept to help social …

Arts And Sciences Newsletter, Volume 6, Issue 5, Pt. 2, College Of Arts & Sciences

Arts and Sciences Newsletters

No abstract provided.

A Case Study Of Sodium Reduction In Breakfast Cereals And The Impact Of The Pick The Tick Food Information Program In Australia, P. G. Williams, A. Mcmahon, R. Boustead

Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Papers (Archive)

In 1997 one of Australia’s largest food companies undertook a program of salt reduction in 12 breakfast cereals. The National Heart Foundation’s Pick the Tick program criterion (<400mg>sodium/100g) was used as a target value where possible. Twelve products were reformulated, with reductions ranging from 85-469mg sodium per 100g and an average reduction of 40% (12-88%). As a result, 235 tonnes of salt were removed annually from the Australian food supply and five more products were able to carry the Tick logo. The impact of the Pick the Tick program in changing the food supply extends beyond those products that …

Enrollment Projections For Nebraska’S Medicaid Insurance For Workers With Disabilities (Medicaid Buy-In Program), Mary Mcgarvey

University of Nebraska Public Policy Center: Publications

Many persons with significant disabilities are unable to obtain health insurance in the private sector that provides coverage of the services that enable them to live independently and enter, remain in, or rejoin the workforce. For individuals with disabilities currently receiving health care under Medicaid, the fear of losing their health care and related services is one of the greatest barriers keeping such individuals from maximizing their employment, earnings potential, and independence. For many individual SSDI and SSI recipients, the risk of losing Medicare and Medicaid coverage that is linked to their cash benefits is a risk that is an …

Analysis Of The Theoretical Relationships Between Work Exhaustion, Job Satisfaction, And Turnover Intention Of Air Force Information Systems Managers, Alfred D. Ray

Theses and Dissertations

The use of information technology has increased exponentially over the last two decades (Cohen and Burton, 2001), Accordingly, the ability of organizations to retain their information systems staff has been a critical factor in the effort to achieve strategic goals (Moore, 2002), When IS professionals leave an organization, not only is the number of them available for assignment to projects depleted, the professionals themselves often take specialized skills, tacit knowledge, and understanding of specific business operations and information systems with them (Agarwal and Ferratt, 2002), Chief Executives have become increasingly interested in issues related to the recruitment, development, and retention …

Information Outlook, March 2003, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2003

Volume 7, Issue 3

American Statecraft, The United Nations, And Iraq, James W. Skillen

Pro Rege

James Skillen gave a special lecture at Dordt College on October 10, 2002, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Center for Public Justice and the Association for Public Justice. The following article is Dr. Skillen's expanded and revised version of that lecture.

The Justice Of War On Iraq, Brian Stiltner

Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies Faculty Publications

The author argues that the U.S. and its partners have rightly arrived at war on Iraq as a just and necessary last resort. The potential problems with the just-war case are notable, particularly concerning the after-effects of the war, but they do not incurably undermine the case for going to war. Instead, both supporters and critics of the war around the world should strive to keep their governments committed to post-war reconstruction and a transition to a free and stable government in Iraq. Several just war criteria, particularly as these are articulated in the Catholic tradition, are used to assess …

Legislative/Judicial Interaction: Do Court Ideologies Constrain Legislative Action?, Elizabeth A. Stiles, Lauren L. Bowen

Political Science

This paper seeks to contribute to our understanding of the degree of success enjoyed by bills in state legislatures. More specifically, we propose a model of bill success that includes a measure of judicial preferences such that we can ascertain the extent to which judicial ideology and perceived judicial climate constrain legislative behavior. We argue that liberal bills are less likely to be enacted in states where the court of last resort is also liberal as opponents will be concerned that the high court will read the legislation too expansively. There is, thus, additional incentive to mobilize to prevent passage …

Understanding Poverty. Sheldon H. Danziger And Robert H. Haveman (Eds.).

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Sheldon H. Danziger and Robert H. Haveman (Eds.), Understanding Poverty. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. $55.00 hardcover, $24.95 papercover.

Welfare Racism: Playing The Race Card Against America's Poor. Kenneth J. Neubeck And Noel Cazenave.

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Book note for Kenneth J. Neubeck and Noel Cazenave, Welfare Racism: Playing the Race Card Against America's Poor. New York: Routledge, 2001. $19.95 papercover.

Case Studies On The Implementation Of The Workforce Investment Act: Focus On Leadership, Sheila Fesko, Jaimie Ciulla Timmons, Allison Cohen Hall

Case Studies Series, Institute for Community Inclusion

The workforce development system has undergone significant change in the past five years, including the development and implementation of new partnerships. Maintaining the integrity of services and conducting major organizational change has been a challenge for local, state, and federal leaders. Some states have a limited vision of how this new workforce system can operate and the ways in which their customers can benefit from the new partnerships. Other states, however, have embraced the challenge put forth in the Workforce Investment Act (WIA) and have built on previous collaborations or begun new initiatives. This publication discusses some of the challenges …

Who Makes The Call On Capital Punishment? How Ring V. Arizona Clarifies The Apprendi Rule And The Implications On Capital Sentencing , Sim?N Cantarero

Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law

No abstract provided.

Arts And Sciences Newsletter, Volume 6, Issue 5, College Of Arts & Sciences

Arts and Sciences Newsletters

No abstract provided.