{"title":"THE WHY AND HOW OF WELFARE REFORM","authors":"J. Paradis","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.17710","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.17710","url":null,"abstract":"In the 1992 presidential campaign, candidate Bill Clinton vowed to \"change welfare as we know it.\" The Republican Contract With America, given much credit for the Republican takeover of the Congress in 1994, promised massive reform of the welfare system. The welfare rolls had grown dramatically between 1989 and 1994. The average monthly enrollment of families in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program had gone from 3.8 million to 5.1 million. The average monthly participation of individuals in the Food Stamp Program had gone from 18.8 million to 27.5 million. Public confidence in our public assistance programs waned and the American public rallied behind the proposition of welfare reform. At a time of huge federal budget deficits, high unemployment and salaries not keeping pace with inflation, the specter of people getting something for nothing-that is, receiving welfare benefits but not working, resonated very unfavorably with much of the American electorate.","PeriodicalId":403502,"journal":{"name":"Increasing Understanding of Public Problems and Policies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129742669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"WATER QUALITY ISSUES: THE NEED FOR A NEW APPROACH","authors":"L. Schroeder","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.17219","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.17219","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403502,"journal":{"name":"Increasing Understanding of Public Problems and Policies","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129819252","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE DIFFUSION PROCESS","authors":"G. Beal, J. Bohlen","doi":"10.4135/9781452229669.n1035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4135/9781452229669.n1035","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is a summary of the flannel board presentation on how farm people accept new ideas. It is based on the findings of 35 research studies conducted during the past twenty years in various parts of the United States, including Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, New York, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.1 The findings of these studies are presented in a framework which will be useful to people who are faced with the problem of diffusing new ideas and practices.","PeriodicalId":403502,"journal":{"name":"Increasing Understanding of Public Problems and Policies","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128687000","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EXTENSION ACCOUNTABILITY--A USER PERSPECTIVE: SUMMARY OF REMARKS","authors":"D. Dooley","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.17929","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.17929","url":null,"abstract":"As a producer, the institutional distinctions that are so important to land grant universities are not nearly as important to me. I do not believe that the production community cares whether the answer comes from an extension agent, a researcher or some professor on campus. Producers just want the answers to the questions we have. It is time to give some serious thought in the land grant system to developing a seamless agricultural research and extension system that does not draw such distinct lines between the components.","PeriodicalId":403502,"journal":{"name":"Increasing Understanding of Public Problems and Policies","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130912654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE U.S. ECONOMIC SYSTEM -- WHAT IS IT BECOMING?","authors":"L. Thurow","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.17727","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.17727","url":null,"abstract":"Turning points are the most difficult events to predict in either economic or human history. In many areas (the weather, the GNP, etc.) the naive statement that tomorrow will be like today predicts as well as most sophisticated models, except that this naive prediction system cannot predict any turning points. And it is precisely the turning points that are of interest. At the moment, we are bombarded with statements that a fundamental long-run economic turning point is at hand. Energy, the environment, shortages of raw materials, or something else is going to force us to change our economic life-styles and institutions dramatically. Which, if any, of these statements are true? Or conversely, what ignored events, if any, might force fundamental, but as yet unrecognized, changes?","PeriodicalId":403502,"journal":{"name":"Increasing Understanding of Public Problems and Policies","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134369120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A REALITY CHECK","authors":"Buddy F Webb","doi":"10.2307/j.ctt1mtz7qt.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1mtz7qt.16","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403502,"journal":{"name":"Increasing Understanding of Public Problems and Policies","volume":"2018 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121540428","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DISTRIBUTIONAL ISSUES IN FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL POLICY: CONCEPTS AND ISSUES","authors":"J. T. Bonnen","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.17422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.17422","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403502,"journal":{"name":"Increasing Understanding of Public Problems and Policies","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124792636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HOW DO PEOPLE LEARN","authors":"R. W. Tyler","doi":"10.22004/AG.ECON.17203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/AG.ECON.17203","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403502,"journal":{"name":"Increasing Understanding of Public Problems and Policies","volume":"79 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123512118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"GOALS OF DEMOCRACY","authors":"W. R. Parks","doi":"10.22004/ag.econ.17208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.17208","url":null,"abstract":"Although it is common practice to refer to the goals, rather than the goal, of democracy, probably democracy has only one ultimate goal-the well-being of each individual as a distinct and significant item of humanity.' It rests upon the ancient Christian-Jewish belief that each individual human being, however mean his worldly status, as a son of God has a dignity and worth which is equal to that of every other man.","PeriodicalId":403502,"journal":{"name":"Increasing Understanding of Public Problems and Policies","volume":"602 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133825800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE CHANGING AMERICAN FAMILY AND PUBLIC POLICY","authors":"J. Bowers","doi":"10.5860/choice.27-2397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.27-2397","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":403502,"journal":{"name":"Increasing Understanding of Public Problems and Policies","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130265901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}