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...indicators of wellbeing. In an age of material wealth and job growth, with the nation's unemployment rate at 5%, the indigenous jobless rate is 20%. The broader economic game continues to move against Aboriginal people. A recent Australian National University study suggests that if work-for-the-dole participants are categorized as jobless, Aboriginal unemployment could be as high as 50% by 2011. After decades of ineffectual programs, Prime Minister John Howard's government has shifted gears on Aboriginal policy. Treating totems such as land rights and self-government as dead ends, it has been pursuing what it calls...
...bureaucrats can't reverse: Australia's booming economy is not generating enough unskilled work, particularly for men. According to Bob Gregory, professor of economics at the ANU, it's getting harder - not easier - for Aboriginal people to gain mainstream employment (that is, outside the burgeoning indigenous work-for-the-dole scheme). Despite massive spending on job training programs, the results have been "extraordinarily poor," argues Gregory, who estimates each full-time job from one intensive assistance program has cost taxpayers $A75,000. Without a change in economy-wide forces, things will only get worse, says Gregory, who has calculated that...
...removed from his office before investigators had a chance to see them. The files contained documents related to the Clintons' investment in Whitewater Development Corp., a real estate company connected to a failed Arkansas savings and loan that is under investigation by the Justice Department. Senate Republican leader Bob Dole said the Senate Banking Committee should examine the S&L in question and its link to the Clintons. At week's end, the President instructed his personal attorney to hand the files over to the Justice Department...
...Steele became an asset, as one of the few African-American Republicans in the country elected to statewide office. He landed a speaking slot at the Republican National Convention last year, and once incumbent Democratic Senator Paul Sarbanes announced he would not seek another term next year, Sen. Elizabeth Dole, who recruits candidates for the GOP, aggressively pursued Steele...
...House Committees, the First-Year Social Committee, and the Harvard Concert Commission. So, you should ask candidates which of these entities they think should get more money. Would they spend more money to get a better artist at a Harvard concert? If they had a little more money to dole out, which group would they give...