Word: investments
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What Clinton should fight for seems obvious: For openers, the President should further promote the EITC. Many Americans still don't know they qualify for it, and many of those who do get it don't realize they're also eligible for food stamps. Above all, Clinton should invest his dwindling political capital in an all-out drive for his job-retraining programs. Upgrading worker skills remains the surest route to increased incomes. As Clinton says, ``What you earn depends on what you learn; the most effective way to help is to make workers more productive because wages reflect...
Bagby says she intended to create a report in which the public could view the national debt in plain terms, much as stockholders read reports from the corporations in which they invest...
...Halpin shares a generation of Americans' lack of understanding: the realization that public education is one of the most important assets in which our country can invest. Good teachers inspire students to learn, and educated students become educated citizens. Educated citizens vote and contribute to a better society. In order to produce that better society, however, we need to go to the root of the problem: put more money in the schools to finance higher teacher salaries...
Harvard researchers, led by McKay Professor of Environmental Engineering Peter P. Rogers, have begun a two-year project to tackle that problem. they plan to design a numerical environmental index which would allow those who invest in developing Asian countries to better assess the environmental impact of their loans...
...success, a growing majority declared, is being in control of their lives. Says Roger Conner, a Washington lobbyist for community organizations: ``Responsibility is the key word for the '90s.'' For better and for worse, that renewed self-reliance is reshaping the way Americans educate their children, protect their families, invest their savings, run their communities, maintain their health and view their government...