At 07:56 AM 8/19/96 -0700, you wrote:
The Center for Popular Economics has just put out a book which does exactly
this. I ordered it from a flier I've since thrown away, and I forget the
title, but it's published by the New Press in NYC. Gil
*War on the Poor* and it is quite good.
Jim
its just
not as large as some optimistically project.
Jim Westrich
University of Illinois at Chicago
Institute on Disability and Human Development
"Have you seen the Democrats around town? They look like such nice people.
They have these nice red, white, and blue badges. But if you bend
, and demand factors.
Hope this helps,
Jim Westrich
University of Illinois at Chicago
Institute on Disability and Human Development
"How was I to know that gravity and rhythm were linked?"
--Dickie Diamond
a college education abstracting from
financial aid and state subsidies are increasing
faster than inflation.
Very true.
Jim Westrich
University of Illinois at Chicago
Institute on Disability and Human Development
"... are you living in some kind of Disney where thinking is
ve
effects, says Morris Kleiner, a University of Minnesota professor, including
one that compared test scores of children in unionized and nonunionized
districts.
Jim Westrich
Institute on Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago
"Rags, old iron; all he was buying we
.
Thank you,
Jim Westrich
Institute on Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago
"He's one years old but he committed a crime; he may be cute but he's not above the law."
--- Dan Leone
some richer index that would use distribution some way as well; but none of my colleagues thought my idea was too great today).
Jim Westrich
Institute on Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago
help. I highly recommend the latest issue (and no I do not
know where Chairman Thar is).
Jim Westrich
Institute on Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago
"Why shouldn't the American people take half my money from me? I took all
of it from them."
Edward
uot;
From "Halloween: The Making of a Mercantile Event" By Sam Howe Verhovek
*NY Times*, October 23, 1996.
Jim Westrich
Institute on Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago
"Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs."
--Guy Debor
) but
inadequate pay and little possibility for advancement.
Jim Westrich
Institute on Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago
Must we really see Chicago in order to be educated? . . .
Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores.
-- Oscar Wilde (1887 1891).
[Tow that last post to the trash]
The nearly complete election returns in order (now with party names):
x-Bill Clinton, Dem (i) 45,238,951 - 49 percent
Bob Dole, GOP 37,607,011 - 41 percent
Ross Perot, Reform Party 7,807,588 - 8 percent
Ralph Nader, Green 575,985 - 1 percent
Harry Browne,
The nearly complete election returns in order:
x-Bill Clinton, Dem (i) 45,238,951 - 49 percent
Bob Dole, GOP 37,607,011 - 41 percent
Ross Perot, Reform Party 7,807,588 - 8 percent
Ralph Nader, Green 575,985 - 1 percent
Harry Browne, Libertarian 464,076 - 1 percent
Howard Phillips, US
quite possible that the sit down variety is
a "step up"; but isn't the western sit down toilet one of the more
inefficient of possible designs. I seem to recall that the seat should be
slanted one way or the other to aid alimentary efficiency.
Peace,
Jim Westrich
Institute on Disabi
t Interest15.3%
Other 15.9%
Peace,
Jim Westrich
Institute on Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago
"'Things are so wonderful' said the White Man to the Right Man,
And that's why I cry.
We deserve it."
--Allison Statton
nfo:
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/SpecPub/FundJstc.htm
The cheese stands alone,
Jim Westrich
Institute on Disability and Human Development
University of Illinoist at Chicago
"You know, we're living in a world of greed and hate"
-- Merle Travis
in a more
subtely powerful way than *Roger Me*) , class divides, faceless
"corporate" forces that result in hopeless/pointless/heroic struggles, etc.
Widgetly,
Jim Westrich
"How was I to know that gravity and rhythm were linked?" --Dickie Diamond
e shread of integrity to any corporate bidder). I could say a lot more but why
listen to me, the film speaks for itself--it is well worth the effort to find it and
watch it.
Peace,
Jim Westrich
"Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement.
Plagiarism is nece
At 01:21 PM 9/2/97 -0700, you wrote:
Does anyone have more info on this (from the BLS Daily Report)? I
don't
have a USA Today anywhere nearby, and I'm drawing a blank on tracking
down
PSRA:
Despite the best economic conditions in a generation, more than
two-thirds of U.S. workers say
raid of things they don't understand-- like
"holiness". . . . Nobody could be a saint if you judged them by the money
they get from sinners."
His Holiness,
Jim Westrich
"Only the poor break laws; the rich evade them."
--T-Bone Slim
health care, and implications for
health.I have some ideas about this but they wander in many and varied
directions so I will likely followup if anyone else has some thoghts.
Jim Westrich
Institute on Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago
---
"Now that
], etc. =20
The non-deserving poor were also in fact separated into "dangerous" and
"harmless". The "dangerous" thrown into the "madhouses."
See *The Trade in Lunacy*, [by] William L. Parry-Jones. London,
Routledge and K. Paul, 1972. [which is the book
be a
slightly bigger draw as a musician (John Doe Thing or X).
Yes, I could not resist.
Jim Westrich
Institute on Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago
"The works of women are symbolical.
. . . .
This hurts most, this . . . that, after all, we are paid
The worth o
.
Ethereally,
Jim Westrich
Institute on Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago
" . . . they never told him the cost of bringing home his weekly pay
and when the courts decide how much they owe him
how will he spend his money
as he lies i
uot; or "unassigned." At the
opposite extreme is a blunt expression attributed to the Canadian newspaper
magnate Conrad Black: His executives know just what he means by "drowning
the kittens."=20
(Sources: Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk;
&qu
y all over the globe due to the commercial pressures to
raise animals in "unhealthy" ways (with increased use of hormones and
antibiotics in animals). It will be fodder for newstainment and farming
"backlash" for quite some time (as well as hyperbole on all sides).
Jim
itutions are both bad care and expensive).
These savings are only waved at or vaguely hinted at by those waving the
punitive budget ax.
The Congressional Budget Office has all the projections used by Congress for
their budget gyrations (I'm sure that Concord Coalition folks are just as
likely to coo
Thought some people might be interested in this, I find the testimony
compelling.I'll say this for Kevorkian, he is a genius at misspecifying
an issue to suit his interests.
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around
..14 to 10
micrograms per bill) and most of the $1 bills were found to be positive.
For a control Prof. Negrusz had the Federal Reserve ship him a bag of bills
(I wonder if they will ship me a bag) and none of these bills had any cocaine.
Peace,
Jim
Jim Westrich
Institute on Disability
Montgomery Ward sent the following letter on July 9th to 400 former
employees fired on June 25th:
Letter to employees
From the corporate office
ATTENTION:
As you probably heard,
First, I want to make it clear that I generally enjoyed "Four Days in
September". [I will say I have also recently seen 2 other better South
American "political" movies (the amazing low-budget allegory "Moebius" from
Argentina and "The Shipwrecked" from Chile) but this is not a film review
sney would but that's a different
matter) Would they sue Barron's? Left Business Observer? LaborNet?
Copyright infringement is your best entertainment value.
Jim Westrich
Applied Research Unit
Institute on Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois--Chicago
Phone: (312) 413-7862 Fax: (312) 413-1326
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0-2) [22%] and increased paymnents to providers [9%]
are also important factors. The most important factors right now are
increased use of Medicaid for Medigap coverage and shift to Medicaid/HMOs.
Nothing is being said about quality and meeting the health needs of people.
Jim Westrich
Unive
an, Coughlin, et al. which you can get by calling the Kaiser Commission
on the Future of Medicaid (1-800-656-4533). I can summarize myself but why
not get it directly.
Jim Westrich
University of Illinois--Chicago
Institute on Disability and Human Development (M/C 626)
Applied Research Unit
1640 W. Roosevelt Rd.
Chicago, IL 60608
Phone: (312) 413-7862 Fax: (312) 413-1326
I know what you were getting
at--the difference from the baseline grows steeply over time and hence the
burden is "back-loaded").
Jim Westrich
University of Illinois--Chicago
Institute on Disability and Human Development (M/C 626)
Applied Research Unit
1640 W. Roosevelt Rd.
Chicago, IL 60608
Phone: (312) 413-7862 Fax: (312) 413-1326
on field
successes wane.
I personally think that cities are normally better off funding public
education campaigns on participatory sports and explaining why spectator
sports don't really matter than giving (or is that being extorted for)
money and breaks to sports teams but its a rich man's world.
P
ic) categories would be education. I have
no problem with free educations for everyone including the rich but I could
not help but notice who gets a disproportionate share of the benefit for
writing off elite educations.
Jim Westrich
Institute on Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois a
e. I agree that his "stuffed armchair" activism was a tad
soft, but overall I think that I would want to give the Center for
Democratic Values the benefit of the doubt. They could quite possibly
produce important and useful materials for the "community potluck" activist
This is well said and I certainly agree but as a criticism of statistics it
is like criticizing the color "blue" for its use in a particularly ugly
painting.
Jim Westrich
Institute on Disability and Human Development
University of Illinois at Chicago
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