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Newsletter of the Center for Policy Alternatives

 

 


News & Views

Veronica Biggins of Atlanta-based Heidrick & Struggles, Patt Derian former Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Wisconsin State Representative Antonio Riley, also a 1994 Flemming Fellow, joined CPA’s Board of Directors in June.

Arkansas State Rep. Judy Seriale Smith, a 1994 Flemming Fellow, won the Democratic Congressional nomination for Arkansas District 4. She will run against Republican incumbent Jay Dickey in the fall.

Johns Hopkins University released What Welfare Recipients and the Fathers of Their Children Are Saying About Welfare Reform, a report based on 15 focus group interviews. The report is part of a longer project entitled Welfare Reform and Children: A Three-City Study. For more information contact Prof. Andrew Cherlin, at 410-516-7632 or [email protected]. The report is also available online at www.jhu.edu/~welfare.

California’s Proposition 226, the so-called "Paycheck Protection," was defeated. So far, legislation attacking union dues has gone down in 24 states, but similar language has been filed in Colorado, Nevada and Oregon.

  July-August 1998
  Vol. 6, No. 6
 
ALTERNATIVES

Alternatives is a publication of the Center for Policy Alternatives – a nonpartisan progressive public policy and leadership development center serving state legislators, state policy organizations, and state grassroots leaders. Alternatives is indexed in Urban Affairs Abstracts. ISSN #1070-3047

Tim McFeeley,
Executive Director
Jane Gruenebaum,
Chief Operating Officer
Linda Tarr-Whelan,
Board Chair

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Star Wilbraham,
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Intern
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John Wilcox,
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Jennifer Woolley,
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