Word: social
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past seven years Reagan has applied his supply-side tenets to the country's social programs--and this ideology has failed as badly as it did with the nation's economy. Reagan has reversed the strides taken in the 1960s--showing utter indifference to the struggles Blacks and other minorities have undergone to obtain even limited access to consitutional rights...
Along with his stubborn unwillingness to support the civil rights cause, Reagan has vociferously opposed affirmative action programs of any type. The number of Black Reagan appointees the Cabinet, Administration, and federal judgeships is shamefully low. His slashing of federal funds to social programs, work programs and education has constructed prohibitive barriers to economic and social advancement in the Black community. A National Urban League report issued in January of 1987 asserted that the Reagan Administration's domestic policies were and are "morally unjust, economically unfair, and have widened the economic gap between the races...
...throughout the region. Yes, Republicans have deferred attention from these pressing problems by favoring military aid and quick troop interventions. Yet by limiting its actions to countering the administration, Congress also fails to solve the true problems. The Congress should develop programs which would attack the underlying economic and social ills in Central America--something the United States has not even tried to do since the early 1960s...
Professor Steinberg covers intellectual territory which--although popular outside Harvard--is unique in this History department; he is the lone historian of America on the Social Studies faculty. In both History and Social Studies he has advised half a dozen summa and prize-winning theses in three years, some written by students who might otherwise have despaired of studying American history at Harvard. Most important, impressive, and remarkable, given the demands placed on scholars at the associate professor level, Allen Steinberg never gives in to the easy analysis or explanation. In lecture and discussion he is forever reaching...
...major goals of the bill is to encourage Harvard to divest immediately from companies with South African ties, said David Osborne, a spokesman for Barrett. "As an alumnus of Harvard, Barrett supports the use of state control over tax-exempt status for social gain," Osborne added...