Archive for December, 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.
