(Archived document, may contain errors) 315 Dece mber 15, 1983 TRIMMING THE HUGE COST .OF DAWS-BACON c INTRODUCTION The Davis-Bacon Act, enacted in 1931, requires contractors to pay the llprevailingll wage on federally funded construction projects. The purpose of the Act was to protect local construc ti on labor from the competition of itinerant contractors and their lower paid, often minority, employees.
<p>Sam Francis's 1990s writings have been hailed as a model of the angry white working class politics of Trumpism, but a critic notes that this obscures the deep current of white supremacy that runs through his thinking. Conservatives once pushed Francis out of their movement; is MAGA bringing him back in? </p>
As we speak about America and free enterprise and the conservative principles that mean so much to us, it is not enough to uphold and defend those ideas. We must put them into action to help all people. In this process, we should ask: What are people essentially about? They are about relationships, particularly the primary relationships that come first and play the biggest role in shaping a person. And which are those? The relationships within the family. The root of those relationships is marriage: a man and a woman partnering in life with the power to have a child and then, working together, to be present in that child’s life. The ultimate value in life cannot be measured by the amount of money or property you have, but by who you have to enjoy those things with you.
(Archived document, may contain errors) A Special Report to the Congress No. 17 8/2/95 REFORMING AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN EMPLOYMENT: HOW TO RESTORE THE LAW OF EQUAL TREATMENT By Nelson Lund Nelson Lund is Associate Professor of Law at the George Mason University School of Law. From 1989 to 1992, Professor Lund served as Associate Counsel to President George Bush. Before that, he served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and Attorney-Advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice.
The House of Umoja has been credited with helping to quell Philly’s gang violence crisis in the 1970s. Now it wants to train a new generation of peacemakers.