Elizabeth Rose
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195395075
- eISBN:
- 9780199775767
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395075.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
How did the United States move from seeing preschool as a way to give the nation's poorest children a “head start” to seeing preschool as the beginning of public education for all children? Advocates ...
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How did the United States move from seeing preschool as a way to give the nation's poorest children a “head start” to seeing preschool as the beginning of public education for all children? Advocates and policymakers have recently had remarkable success at expanding preschool in many parts of the country, and are gaining support for federal action as well. Yet questions still remain about the best ways to shape policy that will fulfill the promise of preschool. The Promise of Preschool investigates how policy choices in the past forty‐five years—such as the creation of Head Start in the 1960s, efforts to craft a child care system in the 1970s, and the campaign to reform K‐12 schooling in the 1980s—helped shape the decisions that policymakers are now making about early education. In addition to exploring the sources of today's preschool movement, the book also examines policy questions such as, should preschool be provided to all children, or just to the neediest? Should it be run by public schools, or incorporate private child care providers? What are the most important ways to ensure educational quality? By looking at these policy issues through the lens of history, the book offers a unique perspective on this important area of education reform, and explores how an understanding of the past can help spur debate about today's decisions.Less
How did the United States move from seeing preschool as a way to give the nation's poorest children a “head start” to seeing preschool as the beginning of public education for all children? Advocates and policymakers have recently had remarkable success at expanding preschool in many parts of the country, and are gaining support for federal action as well. Yet questions still remain about the best ways to shape policy that will fulfill the promise of preschool. The Promise of Preschool investigates how policy choices in the past forty‐five years—such as the creation of Head Start in the 1960s, efforts to craft a child care system in the 1970s, and the campaign to reform K‐12 schooling in the 1980s—helped shape the decisions that policymakers are now making about early education. In addition to exploring the sources of today's preschool movement, the book also examines policy questions such as, should preschool be provided to all children, or just to the neediest? Should it be run by public schools, or incorporate private child care providers? What are the most important ways to ensure educational quality? By looking at these policy issues through the lens of history, the book offers a unique perspective on this important area of education reform, and explores how an understanding of the past can help spur debate about today's decisions.
Lorna H. Wallace
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780199250011
- eISBN:
- 9780191596216
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199250014.003.0009
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, International
The industrial distribution of inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) within a national economy is uneven, differing among and also within the subnational units. This chapter analyses the impact of ...
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The industrial distribution of inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) within a national economy is uneven, differing among and also within the subnational units. This chapter analyses the impact of the globalization of production and markets at the subnational level by studying FDI in the state of New Jersey (NJ), USA. A summary is presented of quantitative statistics, analysing the trends, significance, concentration, and source of FDI in the state. Next, the determinants of FDI in the state are examined from an academic and business literature view as well as from interviews with practitioners; in addition, the policy implications for corporate practitioners and the role of government in the attraction, development, and retention of inbound FDI to the state are briefly addressed. Finally, it is argued that the intranational distribution of inward FDI stock provides a sensitive guide to the resources, capabilities, and policies of subnational units; and that a national analysis of FDI may not be sufficient or necessary to understand the drivers of international economy.Less
The industrial distribution of inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) within a national economy is uneven, differing among and also within the subnational units. This chapter analyses the impact of the globalization of production and markets at the subnational level by studying FDI in the state of New Jersey (NJ), USA. A summary is presented of quantitative statistics, analysing the trends, significance, concentration, and source of FDI in the state. Next, the determinants of FDI in the state are examined from an academic and business literature view as well as from interviews with practitioners; in addition, the policy implications for corporate practitioners and the role of government in the attraction, development, and retention of inbound FDI to the state are briefly addressed. Finally, it is argued that the intranational distribution of inward FDI stock provides a sensitive guide to the resources, capabilities, and policies of subnational units; and that a national analysis of FDI may not be sufficient or necessary to understand the drivers of international economy.
John A. Grigg
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195372373
- eISBN:
- 9780199870868
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372373.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Brainerd's quest for effectiveness reached a large degree of fulfillment when a religious revival broke out among a community of Indians in northern New Jersey. As the revival continued, Brainerd ...
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Brainerd's quest for effectiveness reached a large degree of fulfillment when a religious revival broke out among a community of Indians in northern New Jersey. As the revival continued, Brainerd sought to develop his charges' spirituality maturity through teaching, training, and using them as coworkers in his ministry. Brainerd's commitment to his work also led him to defend the Indians' land against both alcohol merchants and land speculators.Less
Brainerd's quest for effectiveness reached a large degree of fulfillment when a religious revival broke out among a community of Indians in northern New Jersey. As the revival continued, Brainerd sought to develop his charges' spirituality maturity through teaching, training, and using them as coworkers in his ministry. Brainerd's commitment to his work also led him to defend the Indians' land against both alcohol merchants and land speculators.
Michael J. Camasso
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195179057
- eISBN:
- 9780199864546
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179057.003.0002
- Subject:
- Social Work, Social Policy, Children and Families
This chapter discusses the implementation of the Family Cap in New Jersey. Topics covered include Wayne Bryant’s proposal for a Family Cap in 1991, Family Cap under the Family Development Program ...
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This chapter discusses the implementation of the Family Cap in New Jersey. Topics covered include Wayne Bryant’s proposal for a Family Cap in 1991, Family Cap under the Family Development Program (FDP), Family Cap in the courts, and research on the impact of New Jersey’s FDP and Family Cap. The Family Cap was considered a success by several New Jersey politicians and some state-based policy analysts. However, a rise on abortions rates has been observed with the implementation of Family Cap.Less
This chapter discusses the implementation of the Family Cap in New Jersey. Topics covered include Wayne Bryant’s proposal for a Family Cap in 1991, Family Cap under the Family Development Program (FDP), Family Cap in the courts, and research on the impact of New Jersey’s FDP and Family Cap. The Family Cap was considered a success by several New Jersey politicians and some state-based policy analysts. However, a rise on abortions rates has been observed with the implementation of Family Cap.
Maurice Peress
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195098228
- eISBN:
- 9780199869817
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195098228.003.0002
- Subject:
- Music, History, Western
Be it money, wanderlust, love, or politics — whatever the combination of causes that drew Dvorák to American shores — one of the most significant cultural exchanges in American history was about to ...
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Be it money, wanderlust, love, or politics — whatever the combination of causes that drew Dvorák to American shores — one of the most significant cultural exchanges in American history was about to begin when Dvorák, his wife, Anna, and their two oldest children, boarded the SS Saale in Bremen on September 17, 1892. After nine stormy days, they debarked onto a pier in Hoboken, New Jersey.Less
Be it money, wanderlust, love, or politics — whatever the combination of causes that drew Dvorák to American shores — one of the most significant cultural exchanges in American history was about to begin when Dvorák, his wife, Anna, and their two oldest children, boarded the SS Saale in Bremen on September 17, 1892. After nine stormy days, they debarked onto a pier in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Michael Camasso
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195179057
- eISBN:
- 9780199864546
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179057.001.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Social Policy, Children and Families
Fifteen years ago, New Jersey became the first of over twenty states to introduce the family cap, a welfare reform policy that reduces or eliminates cash benefits for unmarried women on public ...
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Fifteen years ago, New Jersey became the first of over twenty states to introduce the family cap, a welfare reform policy that reduces or eliminates cash benefits for unmarried women on public assistance who become pregnant. The caps have lowered extra-marital birth rates, as intended but as this book shows they did so in a manner that few of the policy’s architects are willing to acknowledge publicly, namely by increasing the abortion rate disproportionately among black and Hispanic women. This book presents the caps history from inception through implementation to the investigation and the dramatic attempts to squelch the author’s unpleasant findings. The book contains clear-cut evidence and data analyses, yet also plays close attention to the reactions the author’s findings provoked in policymakers, both conservative and liberal, who were unprepared for the effects of their crude social engineering and did not want their success scrutinized too closely. The book argues that absent of any successful rehabilitation or marriage strategies, abortion provides a viable third way for policymakers to help black and Hispanic women accumulate the social and human capital they need to escape welfare, while simultaneously appealing to liberals passion for reproductive freedom and the neoconservatives sense of social pragmatism.Less
Fifteen years ago, New Jersey became the first of over twenty states to introduce the family cap, a welfare reform policy that reduces or eliminates cash benefits for unmarried women on public assistance who become pregnant. The caps have lowered extra-marital birth rates, as intended but as this book shows they did so in a manner that few of the policy’s architects are willing to acknowledge publicly, namely by increasing the abortion rate disproportionately among black and Hispanic women. This book presents the caps history from inception through implementation to the investigation and the dramatic attempts to squelch the author’s unpleasant findings. The book contains clear-cut evidence and data analyses, yet also plays close attention to the reactions the author’s findings provoked in policymakers, both conservative and liberal, who were unprepared for the effects of their crude social engineering and did not want their success scrutinized too closely. The book argues that absent of any successful rehabilitation or marriage strategies, abortion provides a viable third way for policymakers to help black and Hispanic women accumulate the social and human capital they need to escape welfare, while simultaneously appealing to liberals passion for reproductive freedom and the neoconservatives sense of social pragmatism.
Elizabeth Rose
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195395075
- eISBN:
- 9780199775767
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395075.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Leaders in four states, inspired in different ways by the intersection of economics and education reform, dramatically expanded publicly‐supported pre‐kindergarten in the 1990s. In Georgia, Gov. Zell ...
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Leaders in four states, inspired in different ways by the intersection of economics and education reform, dramatically expanded publicly‐supported pre‐kindergarten in the 1990s. In Georgia, Gov. Zell Miller latched onto the idea of pre‐kindergarten as a means of improving education and boosting his state's economy; he ultimately made the program universal, creating a broad constituency. In Oklahoma, pre‐kindergarten was part of the reform demanded by the state legislature when the K‐12 system faced a fiscal crisis. Here education officials and legislators took the lead, quietly expanding their school‐based program to make it universal. In New York, early childhood advocates mobilized to implement a universal program at a time of economic growth, but were stalled for a number of years by fiscal crises and the opposition of their governor. New Jersey's preschool expansion, on the other hand, was driven by a court's ruling that the state must provide more funding to children in its most disadvantaged school districts. Each of these states helped lay the groundwork for a movement for “preschool for all.”Less
Leaders in four states, inspired in different ways by the intersection of economics and education reform, dramatically expanded publicly‐supported pre‐kindergarten in the 1990s. In Georgia, Gov. Zell Miller latched onto the idea of pre‐kindergarten as a means of improving education and boosting his state's economy; he ultimately made the program universal, creating a broad constituency. In Oklahoma, pre‐kindergarten was part of the reform demanded by the state legislature when the K‐12 system faced a fiscal crisis. Here education officials and legislators took the lead, quietly expanding their school‐based program to make it universal. In New York, early childhood advocates mobilized to implement a universal program at a time of economic growth, but were stalled for a number of years by fiscal crises and the opposition of their governor. New Jersey's preschool expansion, on the other hand, was driven by a court's ruling that the state must provide more funding to children in its most disadvantaged school districts. Each of these states helped lay the groundwork for a movement for “preschool for all.”
Scott Douglas Gerber
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199765874
- eISBN:
- 9780199896875
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199765874.003.0023
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law, Legal History
New Jersey is probably best known to students of American constitutional history for the so-called New Jersey Plan. The plan was issued during the Federal Convention of 1787 in response to the ...
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New Jersey is probably best known to students of American constitutional history for the so-called New Jersey Plan. The plan was issued during the Federal Convention of 1787 in response to the proposal in the Virginia Plan for a bicameral national legislature, both houses of which were to be elected with proportional representation. Less populous states such as New Jersey were opposed to giving most of the control of the national government to larger states such as Virginia, and New Jersey's delegates to the federal convention offered an alternative that would have awarded one vote per state for equal representation in a unicameral national legislature. The New Jersey Plan was premised on the belief that the states were independent entities and, as they joined the United States of America freely and individually, so they remained. New Jersey's colonial and early state history was likewise premised on a particular constitutional ideal: a reverence for individual liberty. In fact, due in large part to the efforts of William Penn, one of the early proprietors of New Jersey, New Jersey's commitment to individual rights arguably was manifested earlier than that of any other of the original thirteen states. The same may be said of its endorsement of judicial review. Paradoxically, New Jersey embraced judicial review well before its judiciary became independent. This chapter investigates that anomaly.Less
New Jersey is probably best known to students of American constitutional history for the so-called New Jersey Plan. The plan was issued during the Federal Convention of 1787 in response to the proposal in the Virginia Plan for a bicameral national legislature, both houses of which were to be elected with proportional representation. Less populous states such as New Jersey were opposed to giving most of the control of the national government to larger states such as Virginia, and New Jersey's delegates to the federal convention offered an alternative that would have awarded one vote per state for equal representation in a unicameral national legislature. The New Jersey Plan was premised on the belief that the states were independent entities and, as they joined the United States of America freely and individually, so they remained. New Jersey's colonial and early state history was likewise premised on a particular constitutional ideal: a reverence for individual liberty. In fact, due in large part to the efforts of William Penn, one of the early proprietors of New Jersey, New Jersey's commitment to individual rights arguably was manifested earlier than that of any other of the original thirteen states. The same may be said of its endorsement of judicial review. Paradoxically, New Jersey embraced judicial review well before its judiciary became independent. This chapter investigates that anomaly.
Michael J. Camasso
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195179057
- eISBN:
- 9780199864546
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179057.003.0005
- Subject:
- Social Work, Social Policy, Children and Families
This chapter focuses on the pressure from officials, government bureaucrats, policy experts, advocacy groups, and the media for results of the Family Cap impact study. It shows that in New Jersey, ...
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This chapter focuses on the pressure from officials, government bureaucrats, policy experts, advocacy groups, and the media for results of the Family Cap impact study. It shows that in New Jersey, within a year of the Family Development Program’s implementation, and before researchers began the official Section 1115 Waiver evaluation, pressure was mounting on the state’s Department of Human Services to produce an initial assessment of the impact of the Family Cap.Less
This chapter focuses on the pressure from officials, government bureaucrats, policy experts, advocacy groups, and the media for results of the Family Cap impact study. It shows that in New Jersey, within a year of the Family Development Program’s implementation, and before researchers began the official Section 1115 Waiver evaluation, pressure was mounting on the state’s Department of Human Services to produce an initial assessment of the impact of the Family Cap.
Michael J. Camasso
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195179057
- eISBN:
- 9780199864546
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179057.003.0008
- Subject:
- Social Work, Social Policy, Children and Families
This chapter discusses the results of research on the Family Cap theory. The conclusion drawn from both the New Jersey experiment and from this national analysis is that the Family Cap has indeed ...
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This chapter discusses the results of research on the Family Cap theory. The conclusion drawn from both the New Jersey experiment and from this national analysis is that the Family Cap has indeed impacted the “preference” for nonmarital childbearing. In a policy mix that includes Medicaid funding for abortion, Family Caps have succeeded in raising both the financial and psychological costs of nonmarital births in large measure through the lowering of both the financial and psychic costs of abortion. Family Caps exert their greatest impact on blacks when black community density is taken into consideration; this is not the case for Hispanics. Nevertheless, Hispanics also appear to have received the Family Cap message.Less
This chapter discusses the results of research on the Family Cap theory. The conclusion drawn from both the New Jersey experiment and from this national analysis is that the Family Cap has indeed impacted the “preference” for nonmarital childbearing. In a policy mix that includes Medicaid funding for abortion, Family Caps have succeeded in raising both the financial and psychological costs of nonmarital births in large measure through the lowering of both the financial and psychic costs of abortion. Family Caps exert their greatest impact on blacks when black community density is taken into consideration; this is not the case for Hispanics. Nevertheless, Hispanics also appear to have received the Family Cap message.
Michael J. Camasso
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195179057
- eISBN:
- 9780199864546
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179057.003.0004
- Subject:
- Social Work, Social Policy, Children and Families
This chapter discusses experimenting with Family Cap in New Jersey. Random sample assignment for the experiment began in October 1992 with cases drawn from the ten counties in New Jersey that ...
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This chapter discusses experimenting with Family Cap in New Jersey. Random sample assignment for the experiment began in October 1992 with cases drawn from the ten counties in New Jersey that accounted for nearly 85 percent of the state’s welfare caseload. Cases were assigned proportionately to the welfare population in that county with Newark (Essex County), Jersey City (Hudson County), and Camden (Camden County) leading the way.Less
This chapter discusses experimenting with Family Cap in New Jersey. Random sample assignment for the experiment began in October 1992 with cases drawn from the ten counties in New Jersey that accounted for nearly 85 percent of the state’s welfare caseload. Cases were assigned proportionately to the welfare population in that county with Newark (Essex County), Jersey City (Hudson County), and Camden (Camden County) leading the way.
Elizabeth Rose
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195395075
- eISBN:
- 9780199775767
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395075.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Public preschool is being organized and delivered through a combination of private providers and public schools; several states have opted to build on the patchwork of existing programs, allowing ...
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Public preschool is being organized and delivered through a combination of private providers and public schools; several states have opted to build on the patchwork of existing programs, allowing private and community‐based providers as well as schools to deliver pre‐kindergarten. Policymakers in states like New York, New Jersey, Georgia, and Florida have looked for ways to combine, through a mixed public‐private system, the best of both worlds: the universal access, stable funding, and educational standards of public schools, and the flexibility, diversity, and responsiveness to families of existing early childhood programs. However, weaving together these different strands of the early childhood world is a complicated task, requiring that those who shape and implement policy pay careful attention to the details that can strengthen the patchwork on which they rely.Less
Public preschool is being organized and delivered through a combination of private providers and public schools; several states have opted to build on the patchwork of existing programs, allowing private and community‐based providers as well as schools to deliver pre‐kindergarten. Policymakers in states like New York, New Jersey, Georgia, and Florida have looked for ways to combine, through a mixed public‐private system, the best of both worlds: the universal access, stable funding, and educational standards of public schools, and the flexibility, diversity, and responsiveness to families of existing early childhood programs. However, weaving together these different strands of the early childhood world is a complicated task, requiring that those who shape and implement policy pay careful attention to the details that can strengthen the patchwork on which they rely.
Hendrik Hartog
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781469640884
- eISBN:
- 9781469640907
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469640884.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
This chapter offers a summary of core features of the evolving law of gradual emancipation between 1790 and the 1820s. It focuses on three arenas of conflict: manumissions, both formal and informal, ...
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This chapter offers a summary of core features of the evolving law of gradual emancipation between 1790 and the 1820s. It focuses on three arenas of conflict: manumissions, both formal and informal, poor relief, and the movement of enslaved peoples into and out of the state of New Jersey. Throughout, it emphasizes the legal and extra-legal strategies of slaveholders looking to retain their properties and to limit their liability and their costs.Less
This chapter offers a summary of core features of the evolving law of gradual emancipation between 1790 and the 1820s. It focuses on three arenas of conflict: manumissions, both formal and informal, poor relief, and the movement of enslaved peoples into and out of the state of New Jersey. Throughout, it emphasizes the legal and extra-legal strategies of slaveholders looking to retain their properties and to limit their liability and their costs.
Michael J. Camasso
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195179057
- eISBN:
- 9780199864546
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195179057.003.0009
- Subject:
- Social Work, Social Policy, Children and Families
This chapter presents some concluding thoughts. It argues that the traditional litmus test of the high technical quality of an evaluation study has been acceptance of the research in peer-reviewed ...
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This chapter presents some concluding thoughts. It argues that the traditional litmus test of the high technical quality of an evaluation study has been acceptance of the research in peer-reviewed journals. As shown in the references provided in the book, the research conducted on New Jersey’s Family Cap has met this standard many times over. However, a vastly different picture of the evaluation’s technical quality is obtained from the widely disseminated, in-house publications produced by policy centers like the American Enterprise Institute-linked Welfare Reform Academy and the Alan Guttmacher Institute.Less
This chapter presents some concluding thoughts. It argues that the traditional litmus test of the high technical quality of an evaluation study has been acceptance of the research in peer-reviewed journals. As shown in the references provided in the book, the research conducted on New Jersey’s Family Cap has met this standard many times over. However, a vastly different picture of the evaluation’s technical quality is obtained from the widely disseminated, in-house publications produced by policy centers like the American Enterprise Institute-linked Welfare Reform Academy and the Alan Guttmacher Institute.
Radha Jagannathan and Michael J. Camasso
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780195176964
- eISBN:
- 9780199332366
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195176964.003.0002
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
This chapter investigates the role that social outrage has played reform in New Jersey. It also evaluates the effect of legal accountability through court orders and consent decrees nationally. The ...
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This chapter investigates the role that social outrage has played reform in New Jersey. It also evaluates the effect of legal accountability through court orders and consent decrees nationally. The Governor and Commissioner are on the verge of leading child protective services (CPS) in New Jersey and now are on a pathway to real reform. The New Jersey's Children's Services was rebuilt in February 2004. However, 2004 had ended with a rising total of child deaths and a signature case of unspeakable horror. Furthermore, at this time the public child welfare went through a period of reform in New Jersey via legislative intervention. Megan's Law in New Jersey, it is argued here, did not have an important influence on sex offense recidivism, number of sex offenses, violent offenses, or number of children abused. The reviewed case material reveals that negative mobilizations have prevailed in the CPS outrage routinization process.Less
This chapter investigates the role that social outrage has played reform in New Jersey. It also evaluates the effect of legal accountability through court orders and consent decrees nationally. The Governor and Commissioner are on the verge of leading child protective services (CPS) in New Jersey and now are on a pathway to real reform. The New Jersey's Children's Services was rebuilt in February 2004. However, 2004 had ended with a rising total of child deaths and a signature case of unspeakable horror. Furthermore, at this time the public child welfare went through a period of reform in New Jersey via legislative intervention. Megan's Law in New Jersey, it is argued here, did not have an important influence on sex offense recidivism, number of sex offenses, violent offenses, or number of children abused. The reviewed case material reveals that negative mobilizations have prevailed in the CPS outrage routinization process.
Robert W. Jackson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814742990
- eISBN:
- 9780814745045
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814742990.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter details the controversy arising from the New Jersey commission's street-widening agreement with Jersey City. Under the deal, the New Jersey negotiating committee agreed to pay for the ...
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This chapter details the controversy arising from the New Jersey commission's street-widening agreement with Jersey City. Under the deal, the New Jersey negotiating committee agreed to pay for the widening of streets in Jersey City at a cost of about $1 million, with New York paying half. However, the New York commissioners denied any knowledge of such an agreement. The street-widening controversy was more than just an argument over what negotiating authority the New York commissioners had given to their brethren from across the river or if they had known all along about the commitments made. It also became a debate among the New Jersey commissioners over the true purpose of the agreement with Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague.Less
This chapter details the controversy arising from the New Jersey commission's street-widening agreement with Jersey City. Under the deal, the New Jersey negotiating committee agreed to pay for the widening of streets in Jersey City at a cost of about $1 million, with New York paying half. However, the New York commissioners denied any knowledge of such an agreement. The street-widening controversy was more than just an argument over what negotiating authority the New York commissioners had given to their brethren from across the river or if they had known all along about the commitments made. It also became a debate among the New Jersey commissioners over the true purpose of the agreement with Jersey City Mayor Frank Hague.
Calvin Schermerhorn
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780300192001
- eISBN:
- 9780300213898
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300192001.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
For a brief period following the War of 1812 the United States tolerated slave smuggling among allies as part of a political strategy to govern Louisiana. Federal tariffs were also raised to protect ...
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For a brief period following the War of 1812 the United States tolerated slave smuggling among allies as part of a political strategy to govern Louisiana. Federal tariffs were also raised to protect domestic sugar from foreign competition. At the same time the political economy of slavery changed rapidly. Cotton replaced foodstuffs as the largest national export. In that atmosphere, a failed clothing merchant in New York City reinvented himself as a Louisiana sugar planter. New Jersey native John Craig Marsh partnered with New Yorker William Stone and bought a sugar plantation at Avery Island, Louisiana. Sugar planting was a capital-intensive business that was punishing to workers, most of whom were enslaved. To cut start-up costs in 1818, Marsh and Stone bought enslaved New Jersey workers and smuggled them to Louisiana with the help of state judges who fraudulently certified the bondspersons’ consent. Marsh and Stone supplemented that bound workforce with African-descended New York contract workers who toiled on Avery Island for a period of years in slave-like conditions. The scheme boosted Marsh and Stone’s fortunes, and they supplemented their workforce with bondspersons bought from Austin Woolfolk and other legal vendors.Less
For a brief period following the War of 1812 the United States tolerated slave smuggling among allies as part of a political strategy to govern Louisiana. Federal tariffs were also raised to protect domestic sugar from foreign competition. At the same time the political economy of slavery changed rapidly. Cotton replaced foodstuffs as the largest national export. In that atmosphere, a failed clothing merchant in New York City reinvented himself as a Louisiana sugar planter. New Jersey native John Craig Marsh partnered with New Yorker William Stone and bought a sugar plantation at Avery Island, Louisiana. Sugar planting was a capital-intensive business that was punishing to workers, most of whom were enslaved. To cut start-up costs in 1818, Marsh and Stone bought enslaved New Jersey workers and smuggled them to Louisiana with the help of state judges who fraudulently certified the bondspersons’ consent. Marsh and Stone supplemented that bound workforce with African-descended New York contract workers who toiled on Avery Island for a period of years in slave-like conditions. The scheme boosted Marsh and Stone’s fortunes, and they supplemented their workforce with bondspersons bought from Austin Woolfolk and other legal vendors.
Robert W. Jackson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814742990
- eISBN:
- 9780814745045
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814742990.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter describes events leading up to the signing of the contract to build the Holland Tunnel. These include the appointment of the tunnel board of consulting engineers, the selection of ...
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This chapter describes events leading up to the signing of the contract to build the Holland Tunnel. These include the appointment of the tunnel board of consulting engineers, the selection of engineering staff, and signing of the contract between New York and New Jersey that would govern their agreement to build the tunnel. The commissioners signed the contract on September 23, 1919. The “wedding ring” (the agreement for bistate cooperation in construction of a vehicular tunnel) that New York Governor Al Smith, New Jersey Governor Walter E. Edge, and legislative leaders from both states had figuratively slipped on their collective fingers nine months before was, at last, backed by a legal union. The greatest political barrier to progress toward construction of a vehicular tunnel, that of interstate rivalry and mistrust, had, at least for the time being, been overcome.Less
This chapter describes events leading up to the signing of the contract to build the Holland Tunnel. These include the appointment of the tunnel board of consulting engineers, the selection of engineering staff, and signing of the contract between New York and New Jersey that would govern their agreement to build the tunnel. The commissioners signed the contract on September 23, 1919. The “wedding ring” (the agreement for bistate cooperation in construction of a vehicular tunnel) that New York Governor Al Smith, New Jersey Governor Walter E. Edge, and legislative leaders from both states had figuratively slipped on their collective fingers nine months before was, at last, backed by a legal union. The greatest political barrier to progress toward construction of a vehicular tunnel, that of interstate rivalry and mistrust, had, at least for the time being, been overcome.
Mark Mc Neilly
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195189780
- eISBN:
- 9780199851584
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195189780.003.0005
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Business History
This chapter examines how George Washington preserved the promoted the cause of the American Revolution. It suggests that Washington’s victory at Trenton, New Jersey, not only had a material impact ...
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This chapter examines how George Washington preserved the promoted the cause of the American Revolution. It suggests that Washington’s victory at Trenton, New Jersey, not only had a material impact on the enemy, it also proved to be a major victory for propaganda. It explained that this victory raised the spirits of Washington’s army and patriots throughout the colonies and there was a newfound confidence in Washington’s leadership.Less
This chapter examines how George Washington preserved the promoted the cause of the American Revolution. It suggests that Washington’s victory at Trenton, New Jersey, not only had a material impact on the enemy, it also proved to be a major victory for propaganda. It explained that this victory raised the spirits of Washington’s army and patriots throughout the colonies and there was a newfound confidence in Washington’s leadership.
Robert W. Jackson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814742990
- eISBN:
- 9780814745045
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814742990.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter describes the plans to build either a bridge over or a tunnel under the Hudson River. The New Jersey Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission engaged the engineering firm of Jacobs and ...
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This chapter describes the plans to build either a bridge over or a tunnel under the Hudson River. The New Jersey Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission engaged the engineering firm of Jacobs and Davies, of London and New York, to submit a formal report regarding a tunnel, while the New York State Bridge Commission hired the engineering firm of Boller, Hodge, and Baird, of New York, to submit a report regarding a bridge. The tunnel designed by Jacobs and Davies would cost approximately $11 million, considerably less than the $42 million estimated by Boller, Hodge, and Baird for a suspension bridge. Given the comparative cost estimates and the urgent need to build the river's first vehicular link at a point where it was most needed, the bridge and tunnel commissions opted for the construction of a tunnel. The remainder of the chapter discusses the various obstacles standing in the way of the project, including construction laws and red tape.Less
This chapter describes the plans to build either a bridge over or a tunnel under the Hudson River. The New Jersey Interstate Bridge and Tunnel Commission engaged the engineering firm of Jacobs and Davies, of London and New York, to submit a formal report regarding a tunnel, while the New York State Bridge Commission hired the engineering firm of Boller, Hodge, and Baird, of New York, to submit a report regarding a bridge. The tunnel designed by Jacobs and Davies would cost approximately $11 million, considerably less than the $42 million estimated by Boller, Hodge, and Baird for a suspension bridge. Given the comparative cost estimates and the urgent need to build the river's first vehicular link at a point where it was most needed, the bridge and tunnel commissions opted for the construction of a tunnel. The remainder of the chapter discusses the various obstacles standing in the way of the project, including construction laws and red tape.
