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It may seem such an obvious prescription -- build housing, and then help people hold on to it. But it has taken a long time to strip homeless policy of its mythology. For years, whenever the congressional committees or the network-news programs took up the cause, they would call Robert...
The creation of the all-volunteer army in 1973 made the present imbalance inevitable. The Vietnam-era draft was full of inequities that allowed middle- class youths to duck into college and professional deferments. But once conscription ended, the proportion of soldiers from more educated and affluent backgrounds dwindled even...
Meanwhile, the President's decision to call up some reserve and National Guard units, which tend to have a larger proportion of white and middle-class recruits, will make the gulf force more representative. And many would agree with General Powell when he says that, for now, questions of equity...
) Do women voters favor female candidates? The evidence on that score is spotty. Issues seem to prevail over chromosomes when a conservative Republican woman runs against a liberal man. There is no debate on one statistic: women are voting in proportion to their actual numbers, and there are several million...
In many ways the 16 million or so women between the ages of 16 and 22 are the generation that social scientists have been waiting for. They were born between 1968 and 1974, a tiny but explosive glimpse of history in which the women's movement took hold. Studies of...