Describes the positive action using marketing strategies that libraries must take to capture their share of the post-Proposition 13 tax dollar. Strategies discussed relate to price, product, promotion, and place. (JD)

The California Supreme Court catalyzed school finance litigation with its rulings in the "Serrano v. Priest" cases. The court's required that wealth-related spending differences essentially be eliminated, the legislation required to implement that decision, and the passage of Proposition 13's property tax limitation has resulted in…

Examines federal tax expenditures or subsidies directed toward enhancing the retirement income of the elderly. Charges that such expenditures annually target benefits to the wealthiest segment of the elderly population. Examines equity issues and recommends that these tax expenditures be examined on a case-to-case basis. (JAC)

Briefly describes the decline of both agricultural and industrial activities in Clarion County, the impact on the area's economy, and the creation of a financing plan for the industrialization of Pennsylvania. (CLB)

Faced by a tax revolt, Kingston (New York) City Schools reduced subsequent tax levies and maintained small budget increases while adding several programs. They returned money to taxpayers, settled outstanding contracts, tightened operations, froze hiring, controlled budgets, invested and spent wisely, sought grants, and got feedback. (MLH)

Community colleges often rely on local taxes as an important revenue source and must occasionally seek voter approval for a local mill levy increase--a tax on property to fund a specific activity. This chapter describes strategies for planning and carrying out a campaign for securing that approval.

In a study of federal funding for nongame wildlife programs, techniques for quantitatively assessing the relative merits of alternative funding sources are examined. Economic efficiency, ability to pay, and benefits received are considered, and the interaction of analysis with political ideologies is discussed. (SLD)

Analyzes public attitudes toward welfare spending between 1976 and 1982. Survey data indicated that, although opposition to social welfare spending has lessened, there is a limit to the public's willingness to be taxed for social welfare, particularly when there is a perceived competition between military and welfare spending. (Author/JAC)

Uses Titmuss's model of three welfare systems to analyze how the rapidly expanding system of tax benefits available to middle- and upper-income groups parallels the social welfare system for the poor. Operating as a shadow welfare state, the tax benefits system contributes to the upward redistribution of income. (Author/JAC)

This discussion of educational finance highlights the six-fold increase in the cost of education since 1959; changes in the state, local, and federal proportions of school funding; the importance of education in the total economy; and the effect of changing public policy on revenues for education. (SK)

Effects on programs in health, physical education, recreation, and dance of the 1978 Jarvis-Gann proposition reducing property taxes are documented. (MJB)

Tests an interest-group model of public spending by using variations in spending levels across states and counties. Results provide support for this model, in that education spending increases as the number of parents in the electorate increases. An analysis of Texas counties shows that areas with relatively large elderly populations spend less on…

Given the lean times in education today, a coordinated fund-raising effort could highly benefit public K-12 education. An office of development could coordinate grant writing, interaction with foundations, corporate partnerships, the development of endowed chairs, and individual fund raising and manage local fund raisers. Development follows three…

In this article, the author discusses the "faith-based" initiative, unveiled by President George W. Bush after taking office in 2001, that restricts hiring of federally funded religious groups to members of their own faith. In Bradford County, the new "faith-based" approach translated into a contract diverting a combination of…