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-Au101215 6:23:03 [ERROR] /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: Incorrect key file for table ‘./mray_prophoto101wp/wp_postmeta.MYI’; try to repair it 101215 6:23:03 [ERROR] Got error 127 when reading table ‘./dollarsa_dsblog/wp_posts’ 101215 6:23:03 [ERROR] /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: Incorrect key file for table ‘./dollarsa_dsblog/wp_comments.MYI’; try to repair it 101215 6:23:03 [ERROR] /usr/local/libexec/mysqld: Incorrect key ...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.
