Archive for August, 2006
Immigrant rights activist seeks sanctuary from deportation in Chicago church
Chicago immigrant rights activist Elvira Arellano started making national headlines in mid-August when she skipped a deportation appointment and took refuge in Adalberto United Methodist Church. Los Angeles homeless advocate Ted Hayes, who opposes immigration, brought her more publicity when the Minuteman border vigilante group flew him halfway across the country to try to disrupt ...Read more.
Hurricane Katrina survivors still rebuilding — support their work!
Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast a year ago tomorrow, and the survivors are still rebuilding. You can support their work by donating to the grassroots organizations that Dollars & Sense highlighted in our March/April issue, and by asking other people to do the same. Printed and tri-folded, this pdf makes a flyer that you ...Read more.
Econ-Atrocity: Health Care on a Wing and a Prayer
Health Care on a Wing and a PrayerAn Econ-Atrocity, brought to you by the Center for Popular Economics.By Jonathan Teller-Elsberg Millions of employed Americans who are offered health insurance through their jobs are turning down the benefit because of high costs. This has been a tragic fact for many years, but the situation is only ...Read more.
Senate rejects minimum wage/estate tax bill
On August 3, Senate Democrats declined to swallow the poison pill that Republican legislators were offering them — the bill linking an increase in the minimum wage to cuts to the estate tax that passed the House on July 30. OMB Watch has a good analysis that breaks down the costs that the estate tax ...Read more.
D&S on 88.1 WMBR's Spherio
Tune in to 88.1 FM, WMBR today at 4 for an hour of Dollars & Sense on Spherio. If you’re not local, you can listen live online at http://wmbr.org/ Collective member Liv Gold and I will be in the studio to talk about what Dollars & Sense does, what it’s like to be involved, and ...Read more.
Econamici: The White Man's Burden by William Easterly
“Who got the most standby [credit]s from the IMF over the last half century? The answer is Haiti, with twenty-two. And not just Haiti, but the Duvalier family (Papa Doc and Baby Doc), under whom Haiti got twenty of the twenty-two standbys from 1957 to 1986.” “The politics were bad, but the Duvaliers made up ...Read more.
The Short Run: Trouser Trouble
Trouser Trouble An item from “The Short Run” in the July/August issue of Dollars & Sense. An incident at the recent World Cup competition reaffirmed the power of advertisers in sports. On June 16th, about 1,000 fans watched a match between the Netherlands and Côte d’Ivoire at a Stuttgart stadium in their underpants because their ...Read more.
