Archive for 2006
Save NOLA Affordable Housing Fact Sheet
The following fact sheet came via an email from Bill Quigley. It has also been posted on justiceforneworleans.org, a website maintained by the Loyola University of New Orleans Law Clinic, which Quigley directs. New Orleans is in the worst affordable housing crisis since the Civil War. The US Dept. of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) ...Read more.
Econamici: When Affirmative Action was White, by Ira Katznelson
Economic historians often refer to the period from World War II to the mid 1970′s as the “Great Compression.” During that period, US inequality plunged to its lowest level ever, before reversing. In an earlier Econamici, “The Wedge,” I attributed this plunge to an unprecedented set of redistributive policies: In 1935, Social Security began providing ...Read more.
Pinochet and Neoliberalism
On Monday Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, former dictator of Chile and neoliberal/monetarist reformer, escaped prosecution for his many crimes against the people of Chile and against humanity. Post-mortem press accounts of Pinochet have tended to characterize his villany as political—emphasizing the many human rights abuses committed under his regime—while perpetuating the characterization of his regime’s neoliberal ...Read more.
We're big in Brussells!
The European Federation of Employee Shareownership (EFES) has selectedWorker-Owners and Unions: Why Can’t We Just Get Along? from the Sept/Oct issue as one of 50 “remarkable” articles (out of 1,507!) on employee ownership. Although the other articles are from the likes of BusinessWeek, Newsweek, and MSNBC, ours was the only article to get a hyperlink ...Read more.
Arizona seizes migrants' remittances
A follow-up to our coverage (1,2) of Arizona’s attempt to finance its border wall with a tax on money wired abroad: In These Times reports that the state is now simply seizing the money, on the suspicion that everyone who wires money to another country is a drug trafficker. Technorati Tags: immigration, remittance tax, border ...Read more.
Florida was built on free enterprise
In another Rethinking Schools article that is not online, University of Texas journalism professor Robert Jensen tells us, “One way to measure the fears of people in power is by the intensity of their quest for certainty and control ovr knowledge. …The members of the Florida Legislature marked themselves as … terrified of history.. when ...Read more.
The psychology (and economics and marketing) of overeating
While we recover from holiday #1, Salon.com’s Katharine Mieszkowski interviews Brian Wansink, author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think, about the psychology of overeating, and they come up with some economic and marketing insights. Since the observations that you’ll eat more from a larger plate (or a larger bag of chips) ...Read more.
Teaching globalization in high schools
At Dollars & Sense, we’re often asked if any of the readers in our book catalog are particularly geared toward high school students. The answer, sadly, is no. But for all of you who have asked, the current issue of Rethinking Schools offers high school teachers a good globalization course outline by Berkeley High School’s ...Read more.
Houston janitors' strike ends in contract
On November 20, The Washington Post reports After a month-long strike featuring local, national, and international demonstrations, Houston janitors reached an agreement with five major cleaning contractors that will double their income and provide them with health insurance by 2009. The 5,300 mostly female, mostly Latino janitors represented by the Service Employees International Union will ...Read more.
A little economics can be a dangerous thing
First in a series: The Dollars & Sense Blog Recovers from the Holiday On November 16, arch free-marketeer and Nobel laureate in economics Milton Friedman died. Almost as if in memoriam, In These Times featured Christopher Hayes’s reaction to his foray into an introductory economics course at Friedman’s own University of Chicago: As taught by ...Read more.
