Word: bane
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...Mary Jo Bane, who left the Kennedy School to take the job of deputy commissioner of the New York state department of social services in 1984, received the tenure offer one year later. Her New York position put her second in command of a budget of $16 billion that covered the New York's welfare, medicare programs and more...
...controversial report two decades ago, called the Administration study "less a policy paper than a tantrum. They're not writing from facts. This is just ideology." Indeed, there is little hard evidence to show that welfare alone encourages family breakdown. A study by Sociologists David Ellwood and Mary Jo Bane, of Harvard's Kennedy School, found no correlation between the birth rates for unwed mothers and welfare-benefit levels from state to state. They argue, "As an explanation for the dramatic changes in family structure, welfare benefits are largely impotent...
...years. Yale Historian Jaroslav Pelikan observes in The Mystery of Continuity (University Press of Virginia, $14.95), a new work on the saint, that in each of the 16 centuries since his conversion, Augustine has been a "major intellectual, spiritual and cultural force." Even scholars who find the influence more bane than blessing grant the point...
...government to gain "practical, first-hand experience," Allison says. The school's faculty have occupied a number of significant posts: Deputy Treasury Secretary Richard Darman is a former faculty member; Dillon Professor of International Affairs Joseph S. Nye has served as a deputy undersecretary of state; and Mary Jo Bane, professor of political economy, is a top policy executive in New York's Social Services Department...
...Mary Jo Bane, a professor of public policy at the school, who is now a chief policy advisor at the New York State Department of Social Services, said, "Working as a government bureaucrat has made me more humble" on how much government alone can accomplish...