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Pierce, who currently serves as the secretary of the Executive Office of Communities and Development in the Weld Administration, told students that the New Paradigm offers an alternative to the traditional bureaucratic system of government. Instead, the New Paradigm contains five principles--free market orientation, choice, empowerment of the poor...
Pierce agrees that the New Paradigm need not be an exclusively Republican concept. "If the New Paradigm is a successful model for governing in the 1990s and into the next century, the Democrats will embrace many of its concepts," says Pierce, who noted that a Wisconsin Democrat, Polly Williams, had...
Enterprise zones are one example of how government can help poor areas as unobtrusively as possible, according to Pierce. Under this plan, government would promote economic development in poor areas by, for example, offering property tax breaks to lure companies into areas with high unemployment and high rates of poverty...
This idea, which has been advocated nationally by Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Jack Kemp, has been tried fairly successfully in 30 states since 1980, Pierce says. In fact, Massachusetts is the only one of the 10 largest industrial states which does not have an enterprise zone program, according...
A second New Paradigm program would replace mandatory school assignments with educational vouchers. The introduction of "choice" into the school system would mean schools would compete for students, forcing bad schools to improve if they want to remain in business, according to Pierce.