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Survey of State Statutes Affecting Voting by the Physically Handicapped
None
Date:
July 8, 1983
Creator:
Reimer, Rita Ann; Wolfe, M. Ann & Fletcher, Carolyn
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Merit Pay for Elementary and Secondary School Teachers: Background Discussion and Analysis of Issues
Considerable national interest has centered on merit pay for elementary and secondary school teachers since the recent release of the educational reform reports. This merit pay paper contains a background discussion, description of alternatives, summary of current and proposed programs, and analysis of evaluation and implementation implications.
Date:
September 14, 1983
Creator:
Jordan, K. Forbis & Borkow, Nancy B.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Education of the Handicapped
Federal involvement in the education of the handicapped increased significantly with the enactment of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (P.L. 94-142) in the 94th Congress. This legislation amended the provisions for State assistance under Part B of the Education of the Handicapped Act (EHA, P.L. 91-230, title VI, as amended) to require that a "free appropriate public education" be available for all handicapped children age 3 through 21 by September 1980. P.L. 94-142 authorized increased Federal financial assistance along with new requirements for participating State agencies and local school districts. Current issues relating to Federal policy for the education of the handicapped include concerns about costs and responsibilities in educating the handicapped, about the level of Federal financial support, about the characteristics of handicapped children actually identified and served, about the implementation of P.L. 94-142 requirements by State and local school districts, and about Administration proposals to revise Part B regulations.
Date:
November 14, 1983
Creator:
Fraas, Charlotte Jones
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The General Motors-Toyota Joint Venture and Its Competitive Implications
This report reviews the economics of joint ventures by focusing on their implication for market competition. It also reviews the legislative history of mergers and joint ventures with special emphasis on aspects of the law that are directed at reducing market concentration.
Date:
July 13, 1983
Creator:
Bass, Gwenell L.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Independent Truckers: The Effects of Recent Legislation on Earnings (Effects of the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 and the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1983, as they affect highway-related taxes, two trailers, length and width of vehicles, and weights and loads)
Congress passed legislation late in 1982 that is expected to have a significant effect on the annual net earnings of independent truckers. About 90 percent of fresh produce, most used household goods, and from one-third to one-half of all fabricated steel and other commodities transported by truck are hauled by independent truckers. The legislation raised the Federal fuel tax by 5 cents per gallon and significantly raised a highway use tax that is based on the weight of the vehicle. The legislation also allowed truckers to use two trailers, longer and wider vehicles, and carry heavier loads. This CRS report discusses these 1982 changes in Federal legislation. It also contains an estimate of the upper and lower bound of the impact that these changes could have on the annual net earnings of independent truckers.
Date:
March 1, 1983
Creator:
Thompson, Stephen J.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Worker Relocation Assistance: Moving People to Jobs
One characteristic of the dislocated worker problem is that a mismatch exists between the number and kinds of jobs offered by employers and the number and kinds of skills possessed by workers in the same geographic area. At the same time, other geographic areas have unfilled job openings and relatively low unemployment rates. Government-assisted worker relocation is one tool of employment policy that might be used to reduce these regional imbalances in labor supply and demand. This report describes the U.S. experience with both unassisted and Government-assisted worker relocation. It examines the applicability of this experience to the current dislocated worker problem, as well. In addition, the report evaluates the feasibility of establishing a nationwide worker relocation program.
Date:
May 26, 1983
Creator:
LeGrande, Linda
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Space Shuttle
The national Aeronautics an6 Space Administration's major manner program of the post-Apollo era is the development of a space transportation system (STS) based on a reusable space shuttle launch vehicle. Funded since FY71, the shuttle program is coming to fruition: the space shuttle successfully completed its series of four test flights on July 4, 1982. The first operational f1ig; fit was successfully completed in November 1982. The next shuttle flight has been delayed because of leaks in one of the orbiter's main engines. NASA hopes to be ready for launch on Apr. 4, 1963.
Date:
March 21, 1983
Creator:
Smith, Marcia S.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Indexation on Tax Revenues and Distributional Effects of the U.S. Individual Income Tax System: A Historical Simulation
This report compares the actual tax revenues and distribution of the tax burden under the Federal individual income tax from 1971 to 1981 with estimates of what they would have been under the 1971 tax structure if indexed for inflation and under the 1971 tax structure if left unchanged. Policy implications of the comparison are discussed.
Date:
June 9, 1983
Creator:
Kiefer, Donald W.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Universal Social Security Coverage: Extending Mandatory Coverage
This report is on Universal Social Security Coverage: Extending Mandatory Coverage.
Date:
January 19, 1983
Creator:
Snook, Dennis W.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Natural Gas Policy Act
The Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 (NGPA) culminated decades of dispute over natural gas policy and was the "centerpiece of President Carter's National Energy Act. Now there are many issues of both regulatory and legislative concerns under discussion. These items were unanticipated by the framers of this difficult and delicate compromise. Generally speaking, they all stem from the fact that oil prices more than doubled in 1979 and 1980. The NGPA1s framers set wellhead gas prices within the new law's framework in such a way that they would converge on oil equivalent prices -- as they were then perceived -- in real dollar terms by 1985.
Date:
January 20, 1983
Creator:
Kumins, Lawrence C.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Soviets' 5-Year Plan (1981-1985)
On Jan. 1, 1981 the Soviet Union's Eleventh Five Year Plan (1981-85) began. An analysis of the new plan provides some insights into Soviet priorities and economic prospects for the next half-decade. The following are the plan's main goals: to allocate sufficient investment funds to ensure adequate growth of output in the industry, agriculture, transportation, energy, and other sectors; to raise consumer income sufficiently to provide needed incentives and increase consumer satisfaction; to meet security needs at home and abroad; and to import technology, grain and other goods needed to meet priority domestic goals.
Date:
May 19, 1983
Creator:
Hardt, John P. & Gold, Donna L.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Student Benefits
As part of his program for economic recovery, President Reagan included a proposal to discontinue social security benefits for 18 to 22-year-old students attending college or vocational school. Critics of the student benefit believe that other federally funded educational assistance programs which tailor the amount of aid provided to actual educational costs and family income should be relied upon to help finance the college educations of students who are children of retired, disabled, and deceased workers.
Date:
October 18, 1983
Creator:
Koitz, David Stuart
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Antisatellites (Killer Satellites)
This issue brief discusses "killer satellites," the unofficial moniker for antisatellite (ASAT) missiles possessed by the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as U.S. efforts to develop ASAT systems and simultaneously limit their development and use.
Date:
March 21, 1983
Creator:
Smith, Marcia S.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
NATO Nuclear Forces: Modernization and Arms Controls
None
Date:
January 24, 1983
Creator:
Sloan, Stanley R.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Synthetic Fuels Corporation and National Synfuels Policy
None
Date:
February 18, 1983
Creator:
Rothberg, Paul F.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The FTC's Used Car Rule
This report discusses the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) used car rule, which aims to prevent and discourage oral misrepresentations and deceptive omissions of material facts by those selling used cars concerning warranty coverage and mechanical condition.
Date:
October 14, 1983
Creator:
Mulock, Bruce K.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Social Security Benefits for Prisoners
On Mar. 24, 1983, the Congress adopted, as part of the Social Security Amendments of 1983 (P.L. 98-21), a measure to preclude virtually all incarcerated felons from receiving social security benefits of any kind, including retirement and survivor benefits. This action expanded previous legislation. In October 1980, legislation had been enacted (P.L. 96-473) that denied only social security disability benefits and student benefits to prisoners convicted of a felony.
Date:
November 1, 1983
Creator:
Koitz, David Stuart
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Crime Control: Administration and Congressional Initiatives
The Reagan Administration announced its major crime Control proposals in 1981, shortly after the final report from the Attorney General's Task Force on Violent Crimes, and reiterated support for significant changes in Crime control legislation in 1983. Congressional initiatives and modifications of those proposals continue interest and controversy in crime control matters in the 98th Congress.
Date:
October 21, 1983
Creator:
Kaiser, Frederick M.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Social Security: Alien Beneficiaries
Mounting concern about the payment of social security Benefits to aliens living abroad resulted in the enactment of legislation this year adding new restrictions on the payment of benefits to certain aliens, P.L. 98-21.
Date:
November 1, 1983
Creator:
Koitz, David Stuart
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Job Training Programs: Reauthorization and Funding Issues
This paper is divided into the following sections: (1) History of Federal Employment and Training Programs; (2) Reauthorization Issues; (3) Administration Legislative and Budget Proposals; and (4) Congressional Action.
Date:
January 3, 1983
Creator:
Spar, Karen
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Yellow Rain and Related Issues: Implications for the United States
The United States has charged that the Soviet Union is implicated in the use of chemical weapons in Afghanistan and of chemical and toxin weapons, including the toxin known as "Yellow Rain," in Laos and Kampuchea (Cambodia). These charges raise two significant sets of issues: First, issues surrounding the evidence that has been presented to show: (a) that such weapons have been used and (b) that the Soviet Union is implicated in this use. Second, issues connected with the implications of Soviet involvement, if proven, in chemical and toxin warfare.
Date:
September 29, 1983
Creator:
Bowman, Steven R.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Federal Real Property: Inventory and Disposal Initiatives
This report provides background and discusses the inventory and disposal of public lands and other Federal property. For many years the Federal Government has operated under a statutory policy of retaining public domain lands and has disposed of the proceeds from the sale of surplus property other than by the reduction of the national debt. Under the present system, the Government disposes of some types of land when it is determined to be surplus to Government needs, or, in the case of public lands, when it is determined that the national interest would best be served by the sale or exchange of particular tracts of land.
Date:
January 27, 1983
Creator:
Simmons, Malcolm; Baldwin, Pamela & Bea, Keith
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Hospital Cost Containment
This report provides an overview of the dimensions of the problem of rising expenditures for hospital care, the reasons for rising hospital costs, general information on methods of controlling hospital costs and specific programs which have been developed, and some of the issues involved.
Date:
January 10, 1983
Creator:
Lundy, Janet Pernice
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Caribbean Basin Initiative
The Reagan Administration has proposed legislation which would seek to use trade and aid to promote political stability and economic growth in the Caribbean Basin region. Among other things, it would create a one-way free trade zone, where the small nations of the region would have an opportunity for export-led growth through duty-free access to the U.S. market. It would also provide $350 million in economic aid for 1982 to El Salvador and other Caribbean countries.
Date:
September 19, 1983
Creator:
Sanford, Jonathan E.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library