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Neighborhood Assistance Programs (NAPs) have become popular policies among the states as an alternative way to fund community-based organizations and as a way to provide various social services in the face of federal budget cutbacks. Through use of a tax incentive, NAPs seek to encourage business investment in community projects, while strengthening the bond between the public and private sectors. Analysis of NAP performance in three states finds that the programs and their tax incentive concept have many conceptual flaws. Consequently, NAPs fail as a reliable long-term mechanism for inducing high rates of meaningful private sector participation in social programs.

This paper examines efforts to increase the role of the private sector in employment and job training programs mandated by the Private Sector Initiative Program (PSIP) and the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). In particular it will examine whether the emphasis on the private sector participation has led to a greater development of and reliance upon private sector strategies for training and placing the unemployed, as well as an exploration o f the relationship between public and private sector officials involved in program implementation.

Efforts at nuclear licensing reform during the Carter and Reagan administrations.