This study discusses projected costs of the federal government's student loan consolidation program.

The sensible course of action in the face of uncertainty is to enact the Federal Consent Decree Fairness Act and to monitor its outcomes.

Poor nationsshould reject theanti-intellectual property and anti-pharmaceutical company stance that, in a resource-poor setting, is unlikely to be helpful ineither the shortor long terms.

It now appears likely that much of the 1996 presidential race will be fought on traditional class-warfare turf.

African-Americans age eighteen to twenty-five were twice as likely (18 percent) as those over sixty-five (8 percent) to call themselves Republicans.

More thanfifty years ago, Gallup began asking people whether they had smoked any cigarettes "in the last week"; that number has dropped as awareness of smoking risks has grown.

Using a statistical technique called "cluster analysis," the surveyors locate and give names to six groups in the population that differ substantially in their cultural beliefs.