Iowa 88 agenda urges jobs focus to combat recession
Gazette editorial urges 1988 Iowa legislative goals centered on economic growth and job creation. It calls for tax reform, farming research funding, narrowed civil liability, government reforms, transportation funding, prison expansion, school consolidation, welfare work requirements, tourism, AIDS education, nonpartisan county offices, constitutional convention rules, and prudent revenue estimates including a cigarette tax.
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Mr. Phelps
Iowa
Long-Term Care Costs Drive Iowa Campaign Focus
In the 1988 presidential race Chuck Grassley and Tom Harkin highlight long-term care costs as a national family crisis. They cite nursing home averages at $22,000 yearly, urge a federal program, and note voter support for shared funding to protect dignity and prevent poverty.
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American Association of Retired Persons
The
Villers Foundation
Hatch Leads Republicans Toward Warm Fuzzies in Social Policy
George Will notes Orrin Hatch as a Reaganite pushing a plan for expanded federal role in child care. The proposal aims to ease private provision with federal facilitation, highlighting welfare work goals and a shift toward emotionally appealing, locally driven policies amid aging baby boomers and changing labor force trends.
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Hatch
Utah
Reagan
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Pittsburgh Oil Spill Sparks Policy Debate on Regulation
Pittsburgh's diesel spill reveals a flaw in policy as a 3.5 million gallon tank failed near the Monongahela River. About 1 million gallons spilled causing environmental damage, water shutoffs for 13,000 homes, layoffs, and tens of millions in social costs. Lave of Carnegie-Mellon urges focus on major problems and cautions against ideological fights over environmental policy.
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Monongahela River
Alexis de Tocqueville
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
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