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Title: Tax reform and federal subsidy of the state-local sector: Is there a role for state-local tax deductibility?
Date: 1985
Summary: This report explains the economic rationales for Federal subsidy of public spending by the State-local sector and evaluates the changes in deductibility of State-local taxes proposed by the Treasury, Bradley-Gephardt, and Kemp-Kasten tax reform plans for consistency with these rationales.

Title: Overtime provisions under the fair labor standards act for public fire protection or law enforcement employees
Date: 1985
Summary: As a result of a recent Supreme Court decision, State and local fire protection and law enforcement employees have come under the wage and overtime provisions of the Fair labor Standards Act. This report examines the overtime coverage.

Title: Leabḣuir na Seintiomna ar na ttarrvʻng go gaiḋlig tre c̓úram & ḋúṫraś an Doctúir Uilliam Bedel, roiṁe so easbug Chille Móire a Nēirin̄, agus anois ar na ccur a ccló c̓um maiṫios pvʻblidhe na tīresin, The Books of the Old Testament translated into Irish by the care and diligence of Doctor William Bedel, late Bishop of Kilmore in Ireland, and, for the publick good of that nation., Bible. Old Testament. Irish. Bedell. 1685

Title: Economic growth and changing labor markets: Those left behind
Date: 1983
Summary: Specific groups in the Nation's work force experience employment difficulties even in good economic times. The Labor Section of the Economics Division in the Congressional Research Service in analyzing labor market problems of these groups which include youth, women, older workers, adult nonwhites, Hispanics, and dislocated workers. This overview report summarizes the principal labor market characteristics and problems of these groups. A separate report focusing on dislocated workers is available and individual reports on other groups are in preparation.

Title: Tax reform: Its potential effect on the state and local sector
Date: 1987
Summary: This report discusses the 1986 Tax Reform Act's potential effects on the level of State and local spending, State tax structures, interstate tax competition, and State and local use of tax-exempt bonds.

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: Treatment of state-local taxes and tax-exempt bonds under tax reform proposals: Effects on the state-local sector
Date: 1985
Summary: This report compares the potential economic effects of several tax reform and deficit reduction proposals on the State-local sector, through their treatment of deductibility of State-local taxes from Federal taxable income and the exemption of interest on State-local bonds. The proposals considered are the Treasury, Kemp-Kasten, Bradley-Gephardt, DeConcini, and Quayle tax reform plans, and the floor and ceiling deductibility proposals for deficit reduction. Among the more important conclusions are that these proposals would differ in their potential effects on the State-local sector's own tax revenues and the distribution of the sector's revenue losses across States. Also, the effect on the State-local bond market from the Treasury, Bradley-Gephardt, and Kemp-Kasten proposals would differ from the effect of the DeConcini and Quayle proposals.

Title: Counting migrant and seasonal farmworkers: A persistent data void
Date: 1985
Summary: The Federal Government currently supports several ... [illegible] farmworkers and their families. Yet, the number ... [illegible]

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