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Title: The corporate income tax and the U.S. economy
Date: 1984
Summary: The Federal tax on corporate profits has been in effect since 1909, but controversy continues to surround the tax despite its long history. Indeed, the very existence of a corporate income tax has been questioned by some and defended by others. In the area of economic analysis, there has been a degree of uncertainty about the effects of the tax. However, economists generally agree that in the long run the tax is not borne exclusively by the owners of corporate capital, and that the tax results in a certain loss in economic efficiency. All effects aside, the size of the corporate income tax has diminished over the past 30 years. Receipts from the tax have fallen, as have the average and marginal effective tax rates.

Title: The current economic expansion: How does it compare?
Date: 1986
Summary: This paper examines the current economic expansion in light of previous experience. What aspects of the current expansion are typical of an economic upswing and what aspects are unusual?

Title: The consolidation of the Emergency School Aid Act: A brief analysis of its impact
Date: 1983
Summary: The Emergency School Aid Act (ESAA) was the primary source of Federal financial assistance supporting school districts' desegregation efforts until its repeal in 1982. Its activities were included in an education block grant. This paper reviews the provisions of ESAA prior to its repeal, delineates the impact of its repeal and consolidation in the block grant, and describes current legislative action seeking to reestablish ESAA in a modified form.

Title: The concept of "secular humanism" in the context of elementary and secondary education: Discussion of the variety of meanings, and references in federal education legislation
Date: 1986
Summary: This paper provides a discussion of the range of meanings for the concept of "secular humanism," as applied to the curriculum of elementary and secondary schools. Included is an outline of Federal education legislation in which this term has been used.

Title: The dairy provisions of the 1985 farm bill
Date: 1986
Summary: The new omnibus farm law, the Food Security Act of 1985, extends the dairy price support program for five years, authorizes reductions in the support rate after 1986, and establishes a new, voluntary program paying farmers to quit dairying. This report summarizes these and other dairy provisions in the legislation.

Title: The Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987: Legal analysis of S. 557 and H.R. 1214, 100th Congress
Date: 1987
Summary: As in prior years, there are before the 100th Congress two bills, S. 557 and H.R. 1214, designed to "restore the ... broad institution-wide application" of certain federal civil rights laws in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Grove City College v. Bell.

Title: The excessive surplus provision ("Gephardt Amendment") of H.R. 3
Date: 1987
Summary: Probably the most contentious provision of H.R. 3, Trade and International Economic Policy Reform Act of 1987, concerns a mandatory reduction in surplus for countries that have a large bilateral trade surplus with the United States through unfair trade practices (the "Gephardt Amendment"). In the short-run, a mandatory reduction in foreign surplus could possibly improve the U.S. trade surplus to a small degree; but over time, exchange rate adjustment would tend to offset the effects of the reduction in surplus.

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