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Title: Congressional power to require collection of state sales/use taxes by mail order firms: Due progress concerns
Date: 1985

Title: Magnet schools assistance: Federal aid to desegregating school districts
Date: 1985
Summary: This paper provides an overview of the provisions, the background and legislative history, and current status of the new Magnet Schools Assistance program. This program will support magnet schools (those offering a special curriculum to attract voluntarily students from different racial backgrounds) in desegregating school districts. Current issues affecting the program include debate over a prohibition against using any of its funds for magnet school courses the substance of which is "secular humanism," and unsuccessful efforts by the Reagan Administration to rescind its FY 1985 funding.

Title: Affirmative action and seniority: Doctrinal conflict in equal employment opportunity law
Date: 1985

Title: Circumstances under which grandparents may petition the court for visitation rights with their grandchildren
Date: 1985

Title: Social services programs for children and youth: FY 1986 budget proposals
Date: 1985

Title: Interest rates on consumer and commercial loans: Why the difference?
Date: 1985
Summary: This paper, using the period from May 1982 to May 1983 as a case study, will examine the reasons for the inflexibility of rates charged by banks on consumer loans relative to rates charged by banks on business loans. The first half of the paper will attempt to establish the differences, and the reasons for such differences, in changes between consumer loan rates and commercial loan charges. The second half of the paper will analyze the reasons for these differences in light of bank yields on outstanding loans to consumers and businesses from 1966 through 1983. Finally, current data will be examined from the point of view of the conclusions reached in the report.

Title: Proposed federal linked deposit program to assist small businesses: An economic analysis
Date: 1985
Summary: It has been suggested that a Federal program of credit assistance, modeled after Ohio's Linked Deposit Program, be established to assist small businesses. This report describes the operation of the Ohio Linked Deposit Program, presents cases for and against the proposal, and provides an overall evaluation of the proposal.

Title: Constitutionality of local hiring preference requirements in public contracts
Date: 1985

Title: Summary and legal analysis of historic preservation tax incentives under the internal revenue code
Date: 1985

Title: Tax reform and tax-exempt bonds: Separating public and private purpose
Date: 1985
Summary: This report discusses three characteristics of the current tax treatment of State-local bonds which have contributed to their use for private purposes: lack of State-local financial responsibility for debt service; State-local initiative in defining public purpose; and flexibility in who can use bond proceeds. Which of these characteristics would be changed by each of the major reform proposals are identified, and their ability to separate public from private bonds is evaluated. An alternative proposal is discussed.

Title: Parking and licensing of motor vehicles used by handicapped persons: A comparison of model regulations and other existing standards
Date: 1985

Title: Insurance for environmental liabilities: Proposed remedies under superfund and RCRA
Date: 1985

Title: The "Fitzgerald Act" and the federal role in apprenticeship training: Recent interest and current initiatives
Date: 1985
Summary: The Fitzgerald Act (National Apprenticeship Act) of 1937 serves as the charter for the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training in the Department of Labor. It also provides the legal framework for the Federal Government's involvement in apprenticeship training programs. Briefly, this paper examines the evolution of apprentice training in America, the provisions of the Fitzgerald Act, and recent legislative interest in apprentice training.