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This paper describes a uniquely comprehensive database constructed from merged state administrative data. State Unemployment Insurance (UI) systems provide an important source of data for understanding employment effects of policy interventions but have also lack several key types of information: personal demographics, non-earnings income, and household associations. With UI data, researchers can show overall earnings or employment trends or policy impacts, but cannot distinguish whether these trends or impacts differ by race or gender, how they affect families and children, or whether total income or other measure of well-being change. This paper describes a uniquely comprehensive new administrative dataset, the Washington Merged Longitudinal Administrative Database (WMLAD), created by University of Washington researchers to examine distributional and household economic effects of the Seattle $15 minimum wage ordinance, an intervention that more than doubled the federal minimum wage.
WMLAD augments UI data with state administrative voter, licensing, social service, income transfer, and vital statistics records. The union set of all individuals who appear in any of these agency datasets will provide a near-census of state residents and will augment UI records with information on age, sex, race/ethnicity, public assistance receipt, and household membership. In this paper, we describe 1.) our relationship with the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services that permits this data access and allows construction of this dataset using restricted personal identifiers; 2.) the merging and construction process, including imputing race and ethnicity and constructing quasi-households from address co-location; and 3.) planned benchmarking and analysis work.

The impact of policy issue networks on state policy making is ascertained. Policy issue networks are described as early phases of "agenda setting" combined with interstate policy diffusion. Four policy issues are considered in an analysis of agenda setting in several states: (1) school finance reform; (2) collective bargaining; (3) minimum competency tests; & (4) creation science. It is argued that policy issue networks help explain the early phases of state policy making, & are characterized by the type of policy solution they advocate. Further research is needed to test the dimensions, classifications, & assertions proposed here. 1 Table, 40 References. R. McCarthy.

Ohio state highway patrolmen and drivers completed two separate questionnaires designed to assess problems related to driver behavior in road construction and maintenance (C&M) zones. The highway patrolmen saw driver inattention, excessive speed, and improper driver behaviors as major causes of accidents in C&M zones and stated that most problems occur in the taper area of lane closures. Patrolmen considered rear-end collisions to be the most typical accident in these zones. The driver questionnaire revealed that when making decisions about speed and lane changes in C&M zones, most drivers rely on their own judgment and cues from other vehicles rather than on signing. Implications of the findings for the design and placement of traffic control devices in C&M zones are discussed.

Adopted in Apr 2004, UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (UNSCR 1540) obliges all member states to take steps to prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), particularly by nonstate actors. The primary mechanism for ensuring the nonproliferation (& eventual elimination) of chemical weapons is the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), enacted in Apr 1997. The provisions of this convention are outlined & member states' obligations under it in accordance with UNSCR 1540 are reviewed. Potential impacts of the CWC on the global chemical industry are considered & provisions incorporated into the convention to counter some of its limitations in curtailing the nonlegitimate manufacture, distribution, & use of certain chemicals are analyzed. K. Hyatt Stewart

The study was carried out to determine Web-based tools for instructional delivery in selected secondary schools in Owerri education zone 1 of Imo State. Three research questions were posed that guided the study. The study adopted expost facto design. The study comprised of 250 teachers selected from 65 secondary schools in Owerri education zone I, of Imo state. The researchers developed instrument named "Web-Based Tools for Instructional Delivery Questionnaire (WDTIDQ)" to gather information for the study. The result revealed that teacher's awareness on facebook and e-mail is high; also teacher's usage of facebook and e-mail in teaching and learning in the selected secondary school is high. Furthermore, there exist challenges to the use of web-based tools for instructional delivery in the selected secondary schools in Owerri educational zone 1 of Imo State, such as, lack of power supply, lack of awareness, lack of basic computing skills on the part of the teachers, lack of Internet connectivity in most of the secondary schools investigated and high cost of information and communication technology (ICT) facilities in these selected schools etc. Following from the findings of the study, it was recommended among others that Web-based tools should be provided for teachers use in teaching and learning process. Also, effective and accessible electricity services should be in place in schools for ICT to thrive. It is believed that if these measures are put in place teaching and learning in the secondary schools will be at a par with the developed countries of the world.

Senator Mansfield states his support for President Lyndon Johnson and the Democratic Party, discusses the record of the Kennedy-Johnson administration in both domestic and foreign issues and encourages his listerners to work for the principles of the Democratic Party. This audio has not been transcribed, but a tape counter index is available. ; https://scholarworks.umt.edu/mansfield_audio/1023/thumbnail.jpg