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According to David T. Ellwood, Littauer Professor of Political Economy, the KSG is "cautiously optimistic" that the degree will receive the go-ahead, having cleared the hurdle of Faculty Council approval...
Wiener Professor of Public Policy Professor David T. Ellwood '75, who helped guide Clinton's welfare program as an assistant secretary in the early years of the administration, said that while some benefits--such as health care for young children--have been increased, families near the poverty line will still suffer if the economy takes a downturn...
...didn't have to be this way, says Dr. Paul Ellwood, 71, the man who invented the phrase "health-maintenance organization" and who, along with Stanford University economist Alain Enthoven, developed much of the theory behind managed care. From his ranch in Wyoming, Ellwood sounds like a broken man, and in a too literal sense he is. He was thrown from a horse last month, fracturing his neck. (No, he was not paralyzed or treated by managed care.) The painful healing process has given him a lot of time to consider how disappointed he is with the system he helped...
Lear was right. As the millennium approaches and baby boomers begin to confront their mortality, people have begun to seek out the comfort of religion in all aspects of their lives--even on TV. "Since the beginning of television, God has been a taboo word," says Father Ellwood ("Bud") Kieser, whose program Insight was one of the pioneers of religious TV in the '60s. "The industry was convinced that entertainment and religion were incompatible. Now there is dramatic evidence that this is not true...
Experts are worried that the easy part of welfare to work is already over. "We'll see what happens when we get to some of the harder groups in the case loads," says David Ellwood, a professor of public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a former adviser to Bill Clinton on welfare matters. "The jury is still very much out." True enough. But companies like Marriott are showing that the welfare rolls can be a source of valued workers who know how to use a fighting chance...