Author: Amy Ridenour

Be Thankful for Dads

National Policy Analysis #252 /
Father's Day is not only a day to express our gratitude for all our fathers have done for us, but also a day to reflect on the importance of fathers to society as a whole. Although a January 1999 poll ...
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To All the Moms in America: Thanks

National Policy Analysis #243 /
Try this quick quiz: Who invented Mother's Day? Why is Mother's Day the second Sunday of May? Is Mother's Day changing? Four hundred years ago, the English began a holiday they termed "Mothering Sunday." Taking place on the fourth Sunday ...
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Latin America Go Home: Tobacco Policies in Foreign Countries Should Be Made by Foreign Countries, Not in U.S. Courts

National Policy Analysis #244 /
A rash of foreign governments have begun filing lawsuits against U.S. tobacco companies. The suits, filed so far by Panama, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Bolivia and Venezuela, and perhaps soon by others including Russia and Brazil,1 are patterned after tobacco lawsuits filed ...
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Activists Take Aim at Corporate Involvement in Schools

National Policy Analysis #245 /
On May 20, a U.S. Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee panel will convene to answer a question that will affect the daily lives of millions of U.S. schoolchildren.1 That question: Should school districts be allowed to use educational programming, ...
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Social Security Reform Would Give More Americans the Benefits of Stock Investing

National Policy Analysis #247 /
Any discussion of how well Americans are doing should begin with an acknowledgement of something we often forget: Americans have a higher standard of living today than ever. Technological advancement is one reason, but so is economic prosperity. In 1970, ...
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Americans Are Better Off Than We Think

National Policy Analysis #238 /
Quiz: Which are true? A. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. B. Americans have less free time every year. C. Americans are being left with inferior service jobs because manufacturing jobs are being shipped overseas ...
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Congress Considers Tax Limitation Constitutional Amendment

National Policy Analysis #242 /
In the year 1057, Lady Godiva urged her husband Leofric, Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes on the people of Coventry. Leofric replied that he would do so only if his wife rode naked through the town marketplace. Lady Godiva ...
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Supreme Court and Congress Act Against Junk Science

National Policy Analysis #237 /
Newspaper readers nationwide chuckled recently, reading Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel and Associated Press stories about a southern Florida sports club that had banned soap, shampoo and shaving cream for the club's locker room.(1) The club had recently paid more than $50,000 ...
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Black History Month: A Retrospective

New Visions Commentary /
I don't know about you, but I've never known what to think about Black History Month. Whenever I think of it, my first thought is invariably: What comic decided to make Black History Month the shortest month of the year? ...
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Latin American Nations Use U.S. Legal System for Profit

National Policy Analysis #236 /
Greedy plaintiffs attorneys making back-room deals with elected officials, massive contingency fee deals, untested legal theories, multi-billion dollar claims - sounds like another day in the U.S. court system, doesn't it? But this time the perpetrators are five Latin American ...
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