Archive for January, 2007
Dollars & Sense talks about media
Tonight, Wed. Jan 31, 2007, 7pm at encuentro 5, 33 Harrison Ave, 5th Floor, Boston, MA 02111 David Barsamian and Cynthia Peters: Who’s Got Your Back? Alternative and Mainstream Media and the War without End Panel of questioners: Linda Pinkow of WMBR, John Grebe of WZBC, and Esther Cervantes of Dollars & Sense With this ...Read more.
"The Profits of Escalation" and the Price of Privatization
In a recent (January 10th) article in Counterpunch, “The Profits of Escalation: Why the US is Not Leaving Iraq,” Ismael Hossein-Zadeh exposes the economic interests, beyond oil, that are driving escalation in Iraq. Some highlights: … The fact is that not everyone is losing in Iraq. Indeed, while the Bush administration’s wars of choice have ...Read more.
Governor Patrick Stumbles on Prison Policy
A letter to the editor by Dollars & Sense co-editor Chris Sturr ran in today’s Boston Globe, criticizing Deval Patrick’s regressive policy to charge people convicted of crimes a fee as a way to raise money to pay for more police: THE NEW GOVERNOR’S proposal is a shameful way for him to start out his ...Read more.
HUD Considers Allowing Public Housing Residents to Wait for Demolitions in Their Own Homes
US Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin recently met with the US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Alphonso Jackson, to negotiate the possible return of some New Orleans public housing residents to their homes . In those meetings, Jackson said he would consider reopening more storm-damaged units to low-income ...Read more.
Econamici: The Minimum Wage and the IRS
January 16, 2007 On January 10, the House voted overwhelmingly to raise the federal minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.25, the increase to be phased in over the next two years. The Senate has yet to vote on the issue. On January 12, the New York Times published a story by David Cay ...Read more.
Media literacy and gay marketing
On Jan 12, Andrea Quijada of the New Mexico Media Literacy Project hosted one of the best sessions I attended at the National Conference for Media Reform: Introductory Training in Media Literacy. I went in hoping to pick up techniques for the Up Against the Wall Street Journal activity I’m leading at the Dollars & ...Read more.
Notes from the road: musings on the nickels and dimes of travel
I’ve been on the road for Dollars & Sense for a week and a half now, and it’s made me realize a few things about the costs of travel. Not the grand environmental and social costs, which would be fodder for a Dollars & Sense article, but more nitty gritty, blog-worthy stuff. First: differential hotel ...Read more.
Big Box Stores & the Future of Retail: Tales from the American Economic Association
So, we’ve had a highlight from the Allied Social Sciences Associations meetings; now here’s a lowlight. On Jan 7, the American Economics Association hosted a panel called Big Box Stores and the Future of Retail. The presenters confirmed many of the things Dollars & Sense readers already know about Wal-Mart: retail stores come and go, ...Read more.
Dennis Kucinich at National Conference for Media Reform
On Friday night, Congressman and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) visited the National Conference for Media Reform and issued an open call to citizens to educate him about issues that the new Domestic Policy Subcommittee, which Kucinich is likely to chair, should address in this session of Congress. The subcommittee, Kucinich says, “will be able ...Read more.
The Long-Term Costs of Providing Veterans Benefits
In Soldiers Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan: The Long-Term Costs of Providing Veterans Medical Care and Disability Benefits, Linda Bilmes of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government asks, “President Bush is now asking for more money to spend on recruiting in order to boost the size of the Army and deploy more troops to Iraq. ...Read more.
