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| Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth about Compassionate Conservatism |
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Tuesday, December 5, 2006
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| In his book, Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth about Compassionate Conservatism, Arthur C. Brooks explores the reasons why some people are charitable and others are not. |
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| Amtrak: Thirty-Five Years of Subsidies, Waste, and Deception |
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Monday, May 1, 2006
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| Should taxpayers continue to pay for Amtrak’s mistakes, or should its thirty-fifth birthday mark the start of a new era for America’s passenger trains? |
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| In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State |
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Friday, March 24, 2006
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| Charles Murray, author of Losing Ground and coauthor of The Bell Curve, introduces his latest book, In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State (AEI Press, March 28, |
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| The Water Revolution: Practical Solutions to Water Scarcity |
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Wednesday, March 22, 2006
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| Millions of people around the world lack access to clean, affordable water. What can be done to promote greater access to clean water? |
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| Is Corporate Social Responsibility Serious Business? |
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Friday, March 3, 2006
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| Examining the complex global corporate social responsibility phenomenon, plus an in-depth look at Wal-Mart, which has been under fire for some of its corporate, social, and environmental practices. |
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| Does Supplemental Security Income Enduringly Reduce Child Poverty? |
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Monday, December 12, 2005
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| Participation in the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program leads to a significant reduction in the probability that a child lives in poverty. |
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| Soldiers, Psyche, and the Department of Veterans Affairs |
| What Are the Lessons of Vietnam? |
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Monday, November 7, 2005
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| Discussion of the Vietnam generation's lessons for veteran rehabilitation and how to apply those lessons to the treatment of new veterans. |
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| A New Approach to Personal Social Security Accounts |
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Tuesday, March 29, 2005
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| This conference addresses concerns about Social Security reform seeming complicated, risky, and even frightening as payroll taxes are diverted away from the U.S. Treasury. |
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| Making the Endangered Species Act Work for Both Species and Landowners |
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Tuesday, March 1, 2005
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| Governor Bill Owens (R-Colo.) discusses Colorado's common-sense approach to achieving species recovery in cooperation with--not in spite of--private landowners. |
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| How to Think about Bioethics and the Constitution |
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Monday, June 7, 2004
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| Diana Schaub of Loyola College in Maryland delivers the June Bradley Lecture. |
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