Abstract
As I understand the term two basic aspects are involved, both related to the concept that the federal government ought not to assume any functions that can be well handled at a state or local level. The first is to restore to the states and local communities greater power in making decisions on how public monies raised by federal taxes should be spent, decisions previously centralized in Washington. The second is to make feasible such a change in the locus of decision making through the process of revenue sharing; that is, distributing a portion of federally collected tax funds to the states and localities for direct expenditure. A stated purpose of the New Federalism is to promote self-reliance, interpreted, as far as students in schools of public health are concerned, as asking them to assume themselves a larger share of the costs of their education.
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