Author: United States. Congress. Economic Joint CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Toward a National Growth Policy: Federal and State Developments in 1974
Author: United States. Congress. Economic Joint CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Forging America's future
Author: United States. National Commission on Supplies and Shortages. Advisory Committee on National Growth Policy ProcessesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Raw materials
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1388
Book Description
Government's Greatest Achievements
Author: Paul C. LightPublisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815716370
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In an era of promises to create smaller, more limited government, Americans often forget that the federal government has amassed an extraordinary record of successes over the past half century. Despite seemingly insurmountable odds, it helped rebuild Europe after World War II, conquered polio and other life-threatening diseases, faced down communism, attacked racial discrimination, reduced poverty among the elderly, and put men on the moon. In Government's Greatest Achievements, Paul C. Light explores the federal government's most successful accomplishments over the previous five decades and anticipates the most significant challenges of the next half century. While some successes have come through major legislation such as the 1965 Medicare Act, or large-scale efforts like the Apollo space program, most have been achieved through collections of smaller, often unheralded statutes. Drawing on survey responses from 230 historians and 220 political scientists at colleges and universities nationwide, Light ranks and summarizes the fifty greatest government achievements from 1944 to 1999. The achievements were ranked based on difficulty, importance, and degree of success. Through a series of twenty vignettes, he paints a vivid picture of the most intense government efforts to improve the quality of life both at home and abroad—from enhancing health care and workplace safety, to expanding home ownership, to improving education, to protecting endangered species, to strengthening the national defense. The book also examines how Americans perceive government's greatest achievements, and reveals what they consider to be its most significant failures. America is now calling on the government to resolve another complex, difficult problem: the defeat of terrorism. Light concludes by discussing this enormous task, as well as government's other greatest priorities for the next fifty years.
Housing and Planning References
Author: Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, Cumulative Index
Author: United States. Superintendent of DocumentsPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
Committee Publications and Policies Governing Their Distribution
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic CommitteePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Our Third Century, Directions
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government OperationsPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Toward a National Growth Policy
Author: Library of Congress. Congressional Research ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
The Role of Local Government in New Community Development
Author: Raymond, Parish, Pine & WeinerPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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