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Setting National Priorities

Setting National Priorities The 2000 Election and Beyond

U.S. Politics, U.S. Economy, Federal Budget, Elections, Politics

Henry J. Aaron and Robert D. Reischauer, Brookings Institution Press 1999 c. 516pp.

Chapter 1: The Dawning of a New Era

PART ONE: The International Challenges

Chapter 2: Defense and Foreign Policy: Time to End the Budget Cuts

Chapter 3: Trade Policy at Crossroads

PART TWO: The Societal Challenges

Chapter 4: Families at Risk

Chapter 5: Growing American Inequality: Sources and Remedies

Chapter 6: Paying for an Elderly Population

Chapter 7: The Rocky Road to Tax Reform

PART THREE: Domestic Priorities

Chapter 8: The National Agenda in Elementary and Secondary Education

Chapter 9: Beyond City Limits: A New Metropolitan Agenda

Chapter 10: Federal Crime Policy: Declare a Moratorium

Chapter 11: Environmental Policy in the Next Century

PART FOUR: Making Government Work

Chapter 12: Changing the Shape of Government

Chapter 13: The Three Faces of Reinvention

Chapter 14: The U.S. Campaign Finance System under Strain

Contributors

Index

Tables

Figures

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