|
|
| uwnews.org | Law and Policy |
RSS Feed URL : http://www.uwnews.org/rss/uwnews-law.aspx
Category : Legal
Total Views : 12 |
| Latest entries from this feed url |
Gregoire and Sims to address Green Jobs conference at UW
Labor leaders, environmentalists and members of the low-income community will discuss links between a green economy and new jobs.
Despite media coverage of politics, voters not likely to choose carefully, UW professor says
Voters without considerable political acumen simply average what they hear and read, and people at Washington caucuses will be no exception, says John Gastil.
Screening for domestic violence woefully weak in welfare offices
Even though federal welfare-reform legislation calls for case workers to screen for domestic violence and most states have agreed to implement this requirement, just 9 percent of women applying for Temporary Assistance to Needy Families were screened for domestic violence.
Finalists for dean of School of Law announced
A number of finalists for the deanship of the School of Law have been identified by the search committee and will begin visiting the university for interviews and public presentations over the next several weeks.
Forty years since Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, last campaign relevant to 2008
In Going Down Jericho Road, UW Tacoma author Michael Honey lays out parallels between national problems in 1968 and the ones we face now.
GOP policies ruining the economy, UW political scientists say in new book
The administration of George W. Bush has stubbornly held onto beliefs in tax cuts, even while proved wrong.
Conifers or condos? NW Environmental Forum develops strategies
Northwest Environmental Forum participants are concerned that working forests in Washington are being converted to other uses ranging from pasture land to housing developments.
Washington state has fourth lowest child poverty rate in U.S.
New data show that gains begun in 2005 have steadily increased, say researchers at the West Coast Poverty Center, located at the University of Washington.
State turns to Ruckelshaus Center to mediate land-use dispute
Problem-solving experts at UW and WSU will work with farmers, environmentalists and others to find common ground
Hackers get bum rap for corporate America's digital delinquency
Three out of five data breaches involving sensitive personal information are attributable to organizational malfeasance, according to a review of compromised records over the past 26 years. A better picture of who is responsible has emerged as a result of recent disclosure laws.
|
|
|
