PolicyGuy

Tuesday, December 30, 2003


Policy Issues for 2004
Also from the NCSL: a list of the top 10 issues likely to dominate state policy debates in the new year. Among the issues are state budgets, responding to the No Child Left Behind Act, the cry for cheap prescription drugs, and the role of incarceration in criminal justice.

"Justice Louis D. Brandeis'?s metaphor of the states as "laboratories" for policy experiments ... had almost nothing to do with federalism and everything to do with his commitment to scientific socialism. .... To this day, it continues to inhibit a truly experimental, federalist politics." -- Michael S. Greve

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