Although many of the 100 million women employed in the developing world are entrepreneurs, they are often unable to become self sufficient or to adequately support their families through entrepreneurship. However, in the past decade, several entities, from microlending banks to United Nations task forces, have intervened to enable women in…

This Child Care Primer provides a detailed overview of child care funding, supply, and demand in New York City. The Primer utilizes data available from public agencies to create a picture of the availability of child care and early education services. The statistical portrait covers New York City demographics, enrollment in regulated child care…

This document describes the performance funding mission resource requirements for public institutions of higher education in South Carolina. It opens with sections of the state code, as amended in 1993, that define the annual budget requests of higher education institutions and outline the requirements for performance funding. The guiding…

This paper describes the State Children's Health Insurance Program's (SCHIP's) financing system, examining two alternatives under consideration for changing the system of redistributing unspent SCHIP funds. Section 1 presents background on SCHIP's financing structure (it is a block grant program, each state's share of federal SCHIP funds is…

This paper is about Massachusetts-born merchant George Peabody's social contacts with 10 U.S. ministers (now called ambassadors) to Britain during the 1850s and 1860s, especially Peabody's contact with John Lothrop Motley, U.S. minister to Britain at the time of Peabody's death. The paper begins with Peabody's life and commercial career; describes…

A discussion of cost-effectiveness in charge back media programs. (HB)

The teaching of reading is a many faceted enterprise which requires knowledges ranging from economics to political science and skills ranging from understanding the decoding process to writing an attractive grant proposal. (Author/RB)

The University of Massachusetts Index'' will no longer be subsidized from student fees as a free-to-all yearbook after 103 years. (RB)

The role of industry in support of science is emphasized on the basis that it pays most of the wages, salaries, and dividends from which the tax dollars are drawn. (DF)

A review of society's efforts to deal with the poor-- always with us''-from the early Poor Laws to the legislation of recent years. (Author)

Reports attempts by college administrators to force campus newspapers to become independent. (RB)

APGA's Federal Relations Committee recently presented testimony on counseling and guidance services before Congress concerning fiscal year 1973 appropriations. This article is drawn from the testimony and is directed toward reporting some of the positive outcomes of counseling and guidance, the dilemma of cutbacks in services and the need for…

The problem of the conflict between the public's right to free libraries and an author's right to just payment for his work is discussed. (16 references) (SJ)

A look at the possibility that limited public funding for public broadcasting will result in program censorship and control by the funding source. (AK)