Oregon economy turned down.
Byline: Sherri Buri McDonald The Register-Guard Weakness in nearly all of the areas tracked by the University of Oregon Index of Economic Indicators dragged the index down in November. The index, which follows eight measures of economic activity in the state, fell 0.3 percent to...

Attitudes.
Journeys are fascinating, if only because you are never sure what awaits you at the end of them. The other day I left for Salt Lake City, invited by Jonas Kage to see Ballet West dance Donald Mahler's restaging of Tudor's great ballet Echoing of Trumpets. When I arrived...

Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965.
Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965. By Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie. Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions. (New York, Cambridge, Eng., and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 170. $49.95, ISBN 0-521-62210-7.) Economists Lee...

Mutuality, Mead & McClure: more `big M's' for the unemployed?
A. Introduction Mutuality pervades contemporary welfare policy. `Reciprocity' between citizens, state and community in welfare provision is common parlance in social policy debate (Mead, 1997: 221), reflecting an `element of populist commonsense' (Yeatman, 2000: 56). Despite being a multi-faceted and fuzzy concept, mutuality has caught on within...

Ignoring the laws of economics.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] If there is anyone unaware that our nation is mired in an economic slowdown, it would be quite surprising. The dollar's value is shrinking; government's cost is rising; and "somebody ought to do something" is the cry of the hour. So, House leaders agreed on...

Medicare pay fix sparks protest at AMA conference. (Aggressive Lobbying Planned).
NEW ORLEANS -- Wearing white lab coats and waving colorful signs, physicians at the interim meeting of the American Medical Association's House of Delegates protested the flawed Medicare payment formula and vowed to lobby Congress to get it fixed. Taking advantage of the interim meeting's new focus...

McClure's `mutual obligation' and Pearson's `reciprocity'--can they be reconciled?
Introduction Reformers face a choice of rhetoric when seeking to rally support. Drawing attention to all that is defective in the status quo, they can trumpet the novelty of their proposals. Or they can seek to reassure people that precedents attest the good sense of what they...

'High growth rate of 9% has bypassed 77% of population'.
NEW DELHI: National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganised Sector chairman Arjun Sengupta on Thursday said the commission will recommend labour reforms with safeguards to protect the interest of workers. He also said the "high growth rate of 9% had bypassed 77% of the population". Stating that...

Gloucester County One-Stop Project: results of staff training on customer satisfaction and employment outcomes for persons with disabilities.
The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) mandated a comprehensive reform of Federal job training programs (Public Law: 105-220, 29 USC 2801). WIA legislation created partnerships between the State Vocational Rehabilitation (VR) system, the State Employment Service (ES), the State Unemployment Insurance service (UI), and county-run employment and training...

Reflections on free exercise: revisiting Rourke v. Department of Correctional Services.
To offer a critical perspective on federal free exercise law, (1) I would like to focus in this talk on a case that I argued in the early 1990s only a few miles from the Albany Law School. At the time I was a law professor at Cornell, and...