>From Marc Breslow, Editor, Dollars and Sense magazine.
(Please excuse the commercial announcement. But we do exist to
serve, not to make money.)
Announcing a new reader by Dollars and Sense that will just be
coming off the presses at the end of this month:
DECODING THE CONTRACT: PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVES
ON CURRENT ECONOMIC POLICY DEBATES
The 64-page booklet, containing 20 articles, draws from our
popular, and now sold-out, March/April 1995 issue of Dollars and
Sense, titled Decoding the Contract; from the January/February
1996 issue of the magazine, headlined by the article Death by
Devolution: Congress Passes the Buck to the States; and from other
articles in recent issues of the magazine that address topics
related to the "Contract with America."
We believe that you will find this an excellent teaching tool. And
at a retail price of $7.50, it's an inexpensive way to help your
students decipher the struggles in Washington and the coming
battles in the states.
Send us an Email to request a desk copy, or use the form below the
table of contents, or call our office to request one. We request
that you send $3 for postage (it will go out first-class mail),
but given how close we are to spring semester, we will send it out
immediately and trust you to send us the money.
Copies will also be available at the ASSA meetings in San
Francisco January 5th to 7th, at exhibit booth 323 (as will copies
of our Real World readers, and special issues of the magazine). If
you will be there, do come by and give me feedback on the books --
we will be doing new editions of Macro, Micro, and International
in the spring, and would love your input (please return the
enclosed survey).
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE
Also, the March/April 1996 Dollars and Sense will be a special
issue on the environment. If you are teaching a related course,
contact us for a preliminary list of articles. Copies will be
available in late February.
DECODING THE CONTRACT: PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVES
ON CURRENT ECONOMIC POLICY DEBATES
CHAPTER 1: THE FEDERAL BUDGET
1. Death from Devolution: Congress Passes the Buck to the States
2. Budget-Balancing Nonsense: The GOP's Contract With the Devil
3. Deficits and Our Children
4. Pumping up the Pentagon: The Domestic Geopolitics of Defense
Spending
CHAPTER 2: FEDERAL TAX POLICY
5. Aid to Dependent Corporations: Exposing Federal Handouts to
the Wealthy
6. The Capital Gains Tax Giveaway
7. Disappearing Corporate Taxes
CHAPTER 3: THE STATES
8. No More Candy Store: The States Question Corporate Subsidies
9. Weldfare
10. Homeless in Massachusetts
11. Christie Whitman Bedazzles New Jersey: Cut Taxes Now, Pay the
Price Later
CHAPTER 4: GOVERNMENT & ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE
12. Is Big Government Really the Problem?
13. Unnecessary Evil: The Inequality-Growth Tradeoff is a Ripoff
CHAPTER 5: POVERTY & WELFARE POLICY
14. Can We Still Win the War on Poverty?
15. It's Not Working: Why Many Single Mothers Can't Work Their Way
Out of Poverty
16. Welfare Myths and Realities
17. The War on Welfare: Clinton's Carrots and Sticks
18. Welfare: Programs That Work, and Those That Win
CHAPTER 6: HEALTH CARE
19. Medi-Raid
20. Managed Health Care: Reorganization Without Reform
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