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The Americans with Disabilities Act: Time for amendments
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Robert P. O'Quinn
Country: United States

"Contrary to the claims of its proponents, the ADA imposes significant costs on American business firms and governmental entities. Indeed, the ADA so zealously pursues its mainstreaming goal that individuals, businesses, and governmental bodies must make expensive accommodations to ensure full integration even when less costly, more convenient alternatives ... are available." (8/9/91)

Affirmative action can't be mended
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Walter E. Williams
Country: United States

"Even if affirmative action was not a violation of justice and fair play, was not a zero-sum game, was not racially polarizing, it is a poor cover-up for the real work that needs to be done." (1997)

Affirmative Action Reconsidered: Was it necessary in academia?
Source: American Enterprise Institute
Author: Thomas Sowell
Country: United States
E-mail: webmaster@amatecon.com

Monograph by Thomas Sowell examining the claims and counterclaims on affirmative action in academia. Originally published 1975.

Pervasive preferences: racial and ethnic discrimination in undergraduate admissions across the nation
Source: Center for Equal Opportunity
Author: Robert Lerner and Althea K. Nagai
Country: United States

Regression analysis study of 47 universities from around the country shows, the authors claim, that "blacks have far greater probabilities of admission than do similarly qualified whites at a large variety of schools, Hispanics have substantially greater probabilities of admission than do whites, and Asians have similar probabilities of admissions." (02/01)

How free computers are filling the digital divide
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Adam D. Thierer
Country: United States

Thierer discusses the notion that the digital divide has become the "new new thing" in civil rights politics. (4/20/00)

How the high-tech sector is bridging the 'digital divide'
Source: Pacific Research Institute
Country: United States

"Propelled by both the profit motive and philanthropic goals, high-tech companies are bringing the benefits of technology to low-income communities at a rapid pace. Numerous studies show that Internet access is quickly spreading to the low-income population." (11/00)

A modern philosophy of The Digital Divide
Source: The Cato Institute / Educause.edu
Author: Solveig Singleton and Lucas Mast
Country: United States

This report contains two articles which look at the "Digital Divide" and whether or not it actually exists. It is available in Adobe PDF. (11/00)

The unintended consequences of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Source: Cato Institute/Regulation
Author: Thomas Deleire
Country: United States

Contrary to the intent of the backers of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the ADA makes the disabled less employable. (Adobe Acrobat) (3/20/00)

Handicapping freedom: The Americans with Disabilities Act
Source: Cato Institute/Regulation
Author: Edward L. Hudgins
Country: United States

The ADA is one of the worst cases of the Bush-era reregulation of the economy. It runs contrary to the goals of the Republican Contract With America as well as sound policy principles because it devalues private property, burdens businesses, and imposes unfunded mandates on state and local governments. (11/15/96)

Unreasonable accommodation
Source: Reason
Author: Brian Doherty
Country: United States

The Americans with Disabilities Act has created an entire industry around interpreting it and, as the old cliché goes, provided plenty of work for lawyers, if not for the handicapped. (8/95)

Is your site accessible?
Source: Reason
Author: Adam Clayton Powell III
Country: United States

The Americans with Disabilities Act may next be used to slap the designers of commercial Web sites. (7/99)

The Case Against Affirmative Action
Source: United States Military Academy
Author: Louis P. Pojman
Country: United States

Pojman argues against affirmative action with regard to race but his "nine arguments" can be applied easily to other excuses for treating people differently based on the groups they belong to. He distinguishs between Strong Affirmative Action -- a policy of preferential treatment -- and Weak -- a policy of rewarding individuals regardless of race or gender. (11/99)

Affirmative action or equal opportunity?
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Ralph R. Reiland
Country: United States

Racial and ethnic preferences perversely offer benefits to successful members of "disadvantaged" groups, while passing over struggling members of the majority. The result is less equity, and a heightening of group resentments. (1995)

The quackery of equality
Source: Mackinac Center
Author: Lawrence W. Reed
Country: United States

Reed discusses misguided attempts by government officials to equalize people’s earnings by restricting economic opportunities and how that in turn makes everyone poorer in personal freedom. (11/10/00)

Beyond quotas
Source: The Heritage Foundation
Author: Roger Clegg
Country: United States

"Those of us who criticize preferences need to do a better job ... of explaining the kind of affirmative action we favor. This includes not only aggressive anti-discrimination efforts, but also positive, race-neutral initiatives to create and publicize economic and educational opportunities for everyone willing and able to compete for them." (1998)

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