Public Opinion and the Balanced Budget
While most Americans have long favored a balanced federal budget , not all do. This paper uses cross-sectional differences among respondents to two public opinion polls to try to discriminate among competing hypotheses about why Americans want the budget balanced. Logit models are fit to data from two different public opinion polls : a Gallup poll and a CBS/New York Times poll conducted , respectively, in March and April of 1980, a time when the proposed balanced budget amendment to the Constitution was very much in the news. In each case , a large majority favored a balanced budget requirement. However, they favor it for a smorgasbord of reasons and at unclear price. It appears that political affiliation, ideology and personal circumstances are far less important determinants of the choice than economic rationales.
The fiscal revolution in America
This study chronicles the revolution in fiscal policy that occurred in the United States between the administrations of Herbert Hoover and John F.Kennedy. Unforeseen by any economist or school of economics, this period saw the doctrine of balancing the budget give way to the principle of managing government expenditures and taxes to ensure stability and growth. The author vividly relates how the thinking and decisions of the leading participants interacted with changing conditions, objectives, and experience to produce this major change of policy. In addition to the complete text of the original 1969 edition, this volume includes a new introduction by the author covering the past 20 years.
The State historical society of Wisconsin
This final report describes a pilot program for the simultaneous appraisal and description of concurrent television newsfilm from the holdings (dating from 1955 to 1972) of three Madison, Wisconsin television stations. The sections of the report are: (1) Project Background and History; (2) Problems of Estimating; (3) Evaluation of the Physical Condition of the Film; (4) Appraisal Issues; (5) Use of Form Headings; (6) Database Construction; (7) Software; (8) Information Sharing; and (9) Results and Conclu,lons. The report concludes that the content of the bulk of the local newsfilm in the holdings is not worthy of the expense of preserving and making it accessible in the labor intensive manner initially employed by the project. Appendixes containing a list of project personnel; selected pages from the descriptive guide and index developed by the project; a chart indicating the work completed on the project; guidelines for film inspection, repa.;.r, identification and assembly; worksheets for information gathering on a sample record; a list of equipment and supplies; appraisal and processing concurrent TV newsfilm collections; advisory committee responses; and collection descriptions in RLIN database are attached. (RS) *********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be macle * * from the original document. * *********************************************************************** Early Wisconsin Television Newsfilm Archives U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION <Mice or Educational Research and improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduCed as received from the person or organization originating it fittincy chanoes have been made to improve reproduction quality Pointsotvieworopanronsstitedinlhisdpcu mei" do not necesterily represent official OEM position or policy Appraisal and Processing THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN Madison, Wisconsin