scholarly journals Should the Federal Government Fund Short-Term Postsecondary Certificate Programs?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandy Baum ◽  
Harry J. Holzer ◽  
Grace Luetmer
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Certificate Programs ◽  
Government Fund

Principles Matter

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos A. Ball
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Free Speech ◽  
Separation Of Powers ◽  
Democratic Institutions ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
Short Term ◽  
White House ◽  
Rule Of Thumb ◽  
Constitutional Principle ◽  
Long Run

Progressives who opposed the Trump administration’s policies found themselves repeatedly relying on constitutional principles grounded in federalism, separation of powers, and free speech to resist the federal government. Although many progressives had either criticized or underemphasized those principles before Trump, the principles became vital to progressive causes after Trump was elected. Using dozens of examples from the ways in which Trump abused presidential powers, this book explains how the three sets of principles can help mitigate the harms that autocratic leaders in the Trump mold can inflict on both democratic institutions and vulnerable minorities. In doing so, the book urges progressives to follow this rule of thumb in the post-Trump era: if a constitutional principle was worth deploying to resist Trump’s harmful policies and autocratic governance, then it is likely worth defending in the post-Trump era even if it makes the short-term attainment of progressive objectives more difficult. This type of principled constitutionalism is essential not only because being principled is good in and of itself, but also because being principled in matters related to federalism, separation of powers, and free speech will help both advance progressive causes over the long run and reduce the threats posed by future autocratic leaders in the Trump mold to our system of self-governance, to our democratic values, and to traditionally subordinated minorities. Going forward, progressives should promote and defend constitutional principles grounded in federalism, separation of powers, and free speech regardless of whether they have an ally or an opponent in the White House.

Obtaining Funding for New Researchers in Psychology

2003 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 276-278
Author(s):  
James Robert Bras̆nić
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Funding Source ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Men And Women

A mentor is the key person to assist a student who wishes to become an independent investigator. The federal government provides long-term funding for decades of research by an investigator, and short-term funding for years of transition from student to investigator is available from both governmental and private agencies. Grants designed for men and women and various ethnic groups are valuable resources. Courteous acknowledgment of sponsorship by the grantee facilitates continued grants from the funding source.

scholarly journals Challenges of President Dilma Rousseff’s Second Term

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Luis da Costa Oreiro
Keyword(s):  
Exchange Rate ◽  
Real Exchange Rate ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Government Budget ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Fundamental Challenge ◽  
The Government

This paper aims at analysing the challenges that will be faced by the President of the Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, in her second term in office. We argue that the fundamental challenge to the federal government is to restore the dynamism of the manufacturing industry, which requires a significant, nevertheless gradual, real exchange rate devaluation. Thus, the necessary government budget adjustment must be focused on tax increases in the short term and on the containment of the growth pace of the government current spending.

Comments on the Impact of the Good Friday Earthquake on the Alaskan Economy

ARCTIC ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
George W. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Private Business ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Federal Support ◽  
The Public ◽  
Good Friday ◽  
The Impact

Notes that the dominance of the public sector, in particular the Federal Government, and the abnormally low role of private business, in the economy of Alaska, are factors which minimize effects of loss and speed reconstruction. In the short term, the economy was stimulated by the disaster, but continued dependence on Federal support is viewed as economically undesirable.

scholarly journals What Is the Remedy for State and Local Fiscal Squeeze During the COVID-19 Recession? More Debt, and That Is Okay

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 584-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
James W. Douglas ◽  
Ringa Raudla
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
The United States ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Balanced Budget ◽  
Debt Capacity ◽  
State And Local ◽  
Federal Assistance

The COVID-19 crisis is placing a tremendous fiscal squeeze on state and local governments in the United States. We argue that the federal government should increase its deficit to fill in the fiscal gap. In the absence of sufficient federal assistance, we recommend that states suspend their balanced budget rules and norms and run deficits in their operating budgets to maintain services and meet additional obligations due to the pandemic. A comparison with Eurozone countries shows that states have more than enough debt capacity to run short-term deficits to respond to the crisis.

Asymmetrien in der Wohnungspolitik reduzieren

2014 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Just
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Housing Markets ◽  
The Other ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Policy Mix ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Energy Emissions ◽  
Outward Migration

AbstractThere are four major challenges for housing policy in the near and midterm future: First, rents in many German conurbations have been rising significantly faster than incomes over the last five years. Though it can rightly be argued, that the suggested policies of the new German federal government are less detrimental than often perceived by real estate professionals, it must be feared that policy makers have underestimated indirect negative effects for both housing and labour markets. Still, what is more important, is that the current discussion on housing policies is focused on the short term putative misallocations, and to a significant lesser extent on the other three structural challenges of the German housing markets, i. e. increasing vacancies in outward-migration areas, severe lack of „low-barrier“- housing for seniors and a need to reduce energy emissions in the property stock. This asymmetry is unintelligible, as markets can comparatively easily deal with the first short-term challenge, provided supply-elasticities are increased. However, the other three challenges are to a large extent due to externalities, and this implies that markets cannot easily correct imbalances. It would therefore be important to rebalance the current policy-mix and debate.

Government Finance on the Eve of the Civil War

1952 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert T. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Government Finance ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Financial Policies ◽  
Paper Money ◽  
Financial Conditions ◽  
War Finance ◽  
The Government

Financially, the Federal Government was more poorly prepared for war in the early months of 1861 than it had been since its establishment. The financial policies of the government in the period preceding the war weakened its credit; and this, along with the urgency of the conflict, was to make short-term borrowing and the printing of paper money attractive but costly wartime expedients. Although the failure to finance the war on a sound basis cannot be ascribed merely to prewar financial conditions and policies, the stage was set by them. The regression to earlier methods of war finance began even before the war.

scholarly journals Building rapid transit in Canada: the problem of governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 243-258
Author(s):  
Martin Horak
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
Long Range ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Rapid Transit ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Long Range Planning

Canadian cities have seen a boom in the construction of rapid transit infrastructure in recent years, fueled by the rise of financial support for transit from the federal government and the provinces. However, the extent to which individual cities have been able to productively harness this new financial support varies greatly. This study compares the recent development of rapid transit infrastructure in two of Canada’s largest metropolitan areas, Toronto and Vancouver. It finds that while both cities have recently developed regional transportation authorities to manage large transit investments, in Toronto the development of rapid transit has been highly contentious, marked by frequent changes in plan and the repeated cancellation and deferral of transit projects, while in Vancouver, the development of rapid transit has been much more consensual and orderly. The study introduces an analytical framework that interprets these different outcomes as the result of dissimilar institutional environments in the two cities, which vary in the extent to which they insulate long-range planning and decision-making from efforts by politicians to harness rapid transit decisions for short-term electoral advantage.

scholarly journals Policy Forum: Structural Deficits and Long-Term Fiscal Consequences for the Federal Government—Some Observations and Advice

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 335-347
Author(s):  
Francis Fong ◽  
Fred O'Riordan
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Fiscal Sustainability ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Private Debt ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Federal Level ◽  
Current Consumption ◽  
Fiscal Risk ◽  
Policy Forum

This article examines the changing nature and size of public deficits in Canada. In this context, the authors draw a distinction between short-term "cyclical deficits" and long-term "structural deficits." They argue that beyond the issue of fiscal sustainability, judgments concerning the appropriateness of federal deficits should take into consideration the overall level of public and private debt in the economy. The authors then set out several proposals to improve fiscal risk analysis and deficit management at the federal level. They conclude that while the merits of a given deficit might be judged by whether the excess spending is used to fund current consumption or to invest in future economic growth, sustained structural deficits with no plan to return to balance before 2040, as projected under current federal fiscal policy, are inappropriate.

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