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Because STAR can be seen only by people who have their own satellite dishes (or a cable or microwave hookup linked with a dish), it is available primarily to the affluent. About half a million households are now able to receive the service, a number expected to grow to 4 1/2 million by 1993. But several Asian governments have launched campaigns to prevent STAR from introducing foreign programming and ideas to people long insulated by state- run TV. The government of Malaysia has announced a ban on private dishes, to protect its large Muslim population from contagion by "undesirable values...
There is no denying the key role that property levies have played in creating the vast educational gap between rich and poor. School trustees in the affluent Texas district of Glen Rose, for example, annually dole out $9,326 per pupil -- three times as much as the per-student allocation in the Rio Grande Valley's bleak Roma district. For reformers, the chief ally has been state courts, which have ruled in many cases -- Kentucky, Texas, New Jersey and Montana, for example -- that inequalities are unconstitutional. In Tennessee, 77 school districts asked a state court to take the same approach...
...Jersey, Democratic Governor James Florio did some fast backpedaling after prompting the state legislature to enact a Robin Hood plan last year that would have used $1.1 billion in state taxes to raise the level of funding in poor school districts. When affluent voters expressed outrage, Florio agreed to shift $360 million of the school aid back to property-tax relief. His political standing was badly damaged; at board of education meetings in Florham Park, N.J., angry parents showed up seeking to turn their public school district into a private...
...Gramley, chief economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association of America and a former Fed governor. "We are paying the price for what we did in the past with this enormous federal deficit. The price goes beyond the poor functioning of the economy now. Here we are, this great, wealthy, affluent nation, and we cannot afford to rebuild our highways or bridges. We cannot afford to have a really serious war on drugs. We cannot afford to improve our educational system. This is absurd...
Most candidates voiced their overall support for current rent control policies, although many expressed dissatisfaction with the lack of a "means test" to keep more affluent tenants from taking advantage of the system...