Revived and Discouraged: Evaluating Employment Barriers for Section 3 Residents With Criminal Records

Section 3 was established in the Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Act of 1968 to provide employment for public housing residents in distressed communities while rebuilding underserved neighborhoods. As a provision that recipients of HUD funding must comply with, Section 3 reporting agencies are having trouble securing employment for ex-offenders. This is problematic since low-income ex-offenders unable to secure stable employment are more likely to recidivate. Research evaluating the specific barriers to employment for Section 3 residents with criminal records and policy recommendations are sparse although the problem is prevalent in communities nationwide. This study uses San Antonio, Texas as an example for conducting a policy review to identify the barriers to employment for Section 3 ex-offenders. The results of the qualitative analysis indicate that at the national level, HUD and the Section 3 provision do not create barriers to employment but state and local policies and practices do.     

公安院校刑事诉讼法学教学模式的改革研究

当今世界,科学技术突飞猛进,社会已步入以人为本的知识经济时代。时代的发展使得公安法学教育面临新的机遇和挑战。因此,如何适应新时期社会需要,构建新的的公安法学教育模式,已是公安院校急需探索的一个紧迫课题。     

Promotion of Gender Equality at the Workplace: Gender Mainstreaming and Collective Bargaining in Italy

The article examines gender equality in collective bargaining and looks at the extent to which gender and equal opportunities issues have been mainstreamed in industrial relations systems in Italy where, despite the existence of old and new legislation on gender equality, there are persistently low levels of female employment and the precarious workforce is made up predominantly of women. The central question addressed in the article is whether the injection of a gender mainstreaming approach in the Italian collective bargaining system, combined with legislative measures, may improve the situation of women in the context of both public and private spheres. In particular, the article looks at whether gender mainstreaming has the potential to pave the way towards an ethos of substantive equality at the workplace, whereby women enter the workforce on equal terms and men are in a position to share the dual responsibilities of paid and unpaid work. The article maintains that gender mainstreaming may fulfil its transformative potential as a catalyst for changing both the conceptual and analytical tools which the law deploys, provided it is envisaged as a three-fold strategy involving simultaneous processes of deconstruction, replacement and inclusive measures, together with deliberative forms of democracy and the imposition of a statutory positive duty on public authorities to mainstream equality.

Opportunities for Collaboration and the Adoption of Local Government Investment Pools

This study examines the determinants of state adoption of local government investment pools (LGIPs) for commingling public funds for investment. It uses aggregate local government panel data from 41 states over a 40-year period and conditional fixed-effects logistic regression. The study finds that opportunities for collaboration, the extent of interlocal collaboration, local financial/economic conditions in a state, and proximate coterminous neighbors increase the likelihood that a state will adopt an LGIP. The finding that opportunities for collaboration contribute to the likelihood of LGIP adoption is an important evidence in support of the collaboration idea and extends the theory to interlocal cash management.     

机遇、挑战与应对:加入WTO后我国企业发展战略思考

中国最终加入期盼已久的WTO,给我国企业的发展提供了良好机遇,但同时,“入世“也使我国企业发展面临多方面的挑战,如何抓住机遇迎接挑战就成了我国企业发展的重要问题.     

山西省跨世纪经济社会发展问题探讨

山西省跨世纪经济社会发展的战略定位是环渤海经济区的重要组成部分。作为环渤海经济区以能源原材料及深加工工业为主的新兴内陆开放省份、华北地区主要经济省份之一和中西部内陆经济示范区,今后山西应积极发挥生产供应功能、内外双向功能和示范带动功能,并进一步发挥自身的战略优势,把握发展机遇,克服制约因素,积极应对挑战。     

新时期中国共产党在农村执政基础建设中面临的机遇和挑战

不断加强党在农村的执政基础建设是时代的一个主题,是全党的一项重要任务,尤其是广大农村党员干部一项义不容辞的责任。本文主要运用矛盾分析法,分别从国际新环境、国内新形势、党自身情况的新变化角度出发,分析巩固党在农村的执政基础所面临的一系列机遇和挑战。     

完善制度环境 实现创业带动就业倍增效应

促进以创业带动就业是党的十七大报告提出的扩大就业的发展战略。我国目前就业领域面临的主要问题是劳动者自主性创业不足，创业率大大低于其他国家和地区，关键的原因在于社会制度环境的缺失。因此，要鼓励更多人参与创业，就必须完善有关创业的法规、政策，整合社会资源，健全融资机制，不断倡导新型的就业观，实现创业带动就业倍增效应。     

论缔约过失中的交易机会损失 ——基于10个典型案件的分析与展开

现行法对缔约过失责任的赔偿范围不明确。司法实践对于交易机会损失是否属于缔约过失责任的赔偿范围以及交易机会损失的赔偿范围之认定存在诸多矛盾。交易机会损失属于缔约过失责任的赔偿范围,与履行利益存在差别。实践中交易机会损失的计算方法决定了其不会超过履行利益,但需避免重复赔偿并且贯彻损害赔偿法的一般原则。     

走向未来的浙江当代文学

在20世纪浙江文学的背景下,浙江当代文学承续令人瞩目的现代辉煌,具有在中国当代文学整体格局中率先发展的先天优势。但出于种种原因,浙江当代文学总体上是相对沉寂的,文学“浙军”领先全国的优势日渐弱化。而进入21世纪以来,社会经济领域、政治领域、文化领域的巨大变化,使浙江当代文学与全国文学一起深刻地感受到了“生存”的危机。何以化解“危机”？浙江当代文学应该抓住社会转型期重振“文学浙军”的难得机遇,坚守文学本体,让文学回归文学本身。同时,在文体上突破传统模式,适时、适度地向新的文学形态转型。在市场经济条件下,浙江当代文学亦应有选择地朝着通俗性、娱乐性、多样化的方向发展。再者,浙江当代文学要继续立足地域文化,更多地关注当下现实,凸显浙江特色,并努力实现对吴越文化的审美超越。