Category: Health

Ironies of the Tobacco Wars

National Policy Analysis #198 /
Did you know that airline air was better back when smoking was allowed on planes? According to the respected travel magazine Conde Nast Traveler, in the days of airline smoking, pilots let up to four times as much fresh air ...
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Save Social Security: Bring Back the Balanced Budget Amendment

National Policy Analysis #189 /
If federal spending and revenue trends of the last three years continue, the United States will be able to pay off its entire national debt in 15 years, says Wisconsin Congressman Mark Neumann. That's good news for everybody, but especially ...
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Larger Public Health Risks Overlooked in the Global Warming Debate

Press Release /
Policy Proposals Seek Solution to Hypothetical Health Risks While Ignoring Real Ones For Immediate Release November 21, 1997 Contact: David Ridenour of The National Center for Public Policy Research at (202) 507-6398 or [email protected] The public health "big picture" has ...
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Is UNICEF Aiding AIDS? by Kevin Pritchett

Project 21 Commentary /
by Kevin PritchettA New Visions Commentary paper published November 1997 by The National Center for Public Policy Research, 501 Capitol Court, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002, 202/543-4110, Fax (202) 543-5975, E-Mail [email protected], Web https://nationalcenter.org. Reprints permitted provided source is credited. Whether ...
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Senator Wellstone Sticks Up for Kids… Until Trial Lawyers Ask Him for a Favor

National Policy Analysis #172 /
Senator Paul Wellstone, the former Carleton College professor who represents Minnesota in the Senate, loves to portray himself as a champion of the poor -- particularly children from low-income and no-income households. A member of the Senate Children and Families ...
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How Social Security Shortchanges Black Americans, by Deroy Murdock

Project 21 Commentary /
By yesterday's definition of racism, the answer is no. For all its failings, Social Security was concocted in 1935 with glowing intentions. Rescuing the elderly from poverty -- regardless of race -- is an idea to which only the flintiest ...
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New Clean Air Standards Could Place Children at Greater Risk

National Policy Analysis #164 /
On September 23, 1994, at approximately 3:02 a.m., 17-year-old J. Brandon Young III died. His young life slipped away after it took more than an hour for an ambulance to come to his aid. The ambulance station was just six ...
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Project 21 Asks Congress to Stop Letting Political Correctness Determine How We Fight AIDS

Press Release /
"As AIDS continues to ravage black communities in America, we as members and associates of the black leadership group Project 21 are urging you to give serious attention to provisions contained in the 'HIV Prevention Act of 1997' as a ...
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Letter from Project 21 to the Congressional Black Caucus Regarding AIDS

The Honorable Maxine Waters Chairwoman Congressional Black Caucus 2344 Rayburn HOB Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Madam Chairwoman: As AIDS continues to ravage black communities in America, we as members and associates of the black leadership group Project 21 are urging ...
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Should Public Health Be Sacrificed At the Altar of Political Correctness? by Roderick Conrad

National Policy Analysis #162 /
When names like Arthur Ashe, Rock Hudson, and Kimberly Bergalis are mentioned, people automatically think of AIDS or HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. The fact that most Americans would know that Ashe, Hudson, and Bergalis died of AIDS is ...
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