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The National Association of Counties announced in Washington, Oct. 9, 1996, the organization's launch of the National Internet Clearinghouse which will allow the tracking of welfare reform legislation & regulations at all government levels.

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Analysis & Opinions - The Boston Globe

Look to the Internet to Fight Poverty

| November 29, 2008

"Internet innovation has transformed business, entertainment, and even government. In an Obama administration, it can transform approaches to poverty at home and abroad. The government's efforts should be focused on expanding access to Internet and other technologies for as many Americans as possible while continuing to develop our national broadband capacity. An expanded technological infrastructure will help Obama make good on a broad social justice agenda as he confronts the myriad problems he has inherited."

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Book - Lynne Rienner Publishers

The End of Government . . . As We Know It: Making Public Policy Work

| May 2007

In the last decades of the twentieth century, many political leaders declared that government was, in the words of Ronald Reagan, "the problem, not the solution." But on closer inspection, argues Elaine Kamarck, the revolt against government was and is a revolt against bureaucracy—a revolt that has taken place in first world, developing, and avowedly communist countries alike.

To some, this looks like the end of government. Kamarck, however, counters that what we are seeing is the replacement of the traditional bureaucratic approach with new models more in keeping with the information age economy.

Analysis & Opinions - Newsday

Put up Your Dukes, Democrats

| February 8, 2006

"Now that another election year is upon us, the fear of Rove is back — even though corruption, cronyism and Katrina have combined to erode the Bush administration's popularity. Some Democrats are so freaked by the past they are arguing that members of the party should stay away from one of the biggest issues of the day: the Bush administration's domestic spying operations."