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New York City Nurses Confront an Austerity Avalanche

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Nick French Oct 17, 2025

Issue 238: November/December 2001

features

Braceros or Amnesty?

David Bacon

Immigrant workers fight for legalization.
Haiti in 2001: Political Deadlock, Economic Crisis

Chris Tilly and Marie Kennedy
Social Security Q&A

Ellen Frank
The Hidden Costs of Private Accounts

Ellen Frank
The Surplus Vanishes: A New Budget Battle

John Miller
Lines in the Sand: A Tourism Debacle in Southern Mexico

Wendy Call
Reversal of Fortune on Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast

Mark Pitsch and Rob Ritzenthaler

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