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THIS week Schlafly is once again making her presence felt on the national political scene as she is attending the Republican National Convention in New Orleans. She's confident that there won't be any attempt to add a plank supporting ERA to the Republican platform. The party of Lincoln once supported the measure, but changed its stance...
Bush currently trails Dukakis by up to 18 points in some national polls, a fact that frightens some Republican strategists. To add excitement to the campaign and to woo women voters, some Republicans are suggesting that Bush pick women as his running mate: perhaps former Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole, Kansas Senator Nancy Kassebaum or former United Nations Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick...
Schlafly isn't rooting for a female running mate in '88--she wants to see Kemp on the ticket instead. "I don't see one woman who would add significantly to the vote total, and I think Jack Kemp would add significantly," she said...
...add to the perception that the study wasbiased by the funding, Mossavar-Rahmani, thereport's co-author, is currently on leave from hisHarvard position to serve as president of Apache,a job which he accepted about six months...
...hundreds of thousands of jobs. Union leaders counter that such claims are exaggerated. Economists are of no help in resolving the dispute. Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, says a $4.65 base rate would eliminate 600,000 jobs, cost consumers $13 billion more a year and add $2 billion to the deficit. The Congressional Budget Office has projected that 500,000 jobs would be lost. But Economist F. Gerard Adams of the University of Pennsylvania argues that a higher minimum wage would cost no more than 100,000 jobs by 1990. Reason: most unskilled workers would...