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At 04:44 PM 10/27/98 -0500, you wrote:
By the way, how is poverty defined in the U.S (in general terms). It's
often
useful to be able to compare our social programs to the U'S's e.g.
healthcare. It helps to deflate the Hollywood image.
Back in the 1950s, Molly Orshansky and others
== I had not intended a reply to never-before-heard-from Brother Ross
at ISS in the very soft exile of The Hague (and my mail program,
being a somewhat better judge of people, dropped him into the inbox
about 30 hours late), but a local friend urged me to say something.
Well,
This is just a test. I am trying to fix my new software designed to
"improve" my life in the name of capitalist progress. Apologies to
everyone and fuck computers (FC). Remember the Unabomber?
ws
I'm sure the entire class is oozing sympathy for you, Wojtek,
but how about identifying the
Perhaps I can make myself clearer if I offer a slightly
more fleshed-out interpretation of events in Brazil.
First a couple paragraphs from a PKT post the other
week.
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A skewed income distribution such as that suffered by
Brazil is an inadequate basis for growth -- low and
unstable
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There will be no shift without a considerable fight. The Praetorian guard
of the business community, the Fraser Institute, has been pushing this line
on the definition of
This is just a test. I am trying to fix my new software designed to
"improve" my life in the name of capitalist progress. Apologies to
everyone and fuck computers (FC). Remeber the Unabomber?
ws
Apologies for what may look like hair-splitting to
non-academics. In a separate post I'll summarize my
suggestions on how to look at Brazil.
Thanks to Ellen for her comments.
At 12:18 PM 10/26/98 -0800, Colin wrote:
This is a false dichotomy. You can argue that there are
real forces
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The trick is in what the new trend is. That many people comprehend a
statement like poverty was x this year (either absolute or relative) is
debatable, though clearly extreme
from SLATE:A week and a half into the Microsoft trial and a paper has
finally done a piece on the oddity of Bill Gates not testifying in person.
Even though he is the personification of the company, an inside WP story
observes that defense lawyers might have viewed him as so "prickly and
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It sounds like Canada is shifting over to the US way of defining poverty. Is
this true?
But being officials who represented a wide array of governments, they were
reluctant to endorse the potato peeling and mouldy bread standard. So they
declared
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Toronto Star - October 27, 1998
A flick of the pen, and presto, the poor disappear
Canada's always imaginative governments have a new cure for child poverty.
They are
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The banks have run out of money and the
shops have run out of goods. This time it is
the Russian elite who have lost everything
These are special times. Only yesterday consigned to a distant, irrelevant
past, today the crimes of the dictators are front page news. I am in
perpetual amazement. A couple of details to give you the flavor.
Augusto Pinochet was finally notified of his arrest yesterday. Apprently,
he's
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Here we go
Does this mean that BLS will finally calculate a Beveridge Curve for the US at
regular intervals?
Peter Dorman
Richardson_D wrote:
BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1998
BLS got all the fiscal 1999 funding the Clinton Administration requested
to continue efforts to improve the CPI
The NORTHWEST EMERGENCY COALITION FOR CHOICE calls a car caravan and rally
in downtown Buffalo, New York, responding to the MURDER--by sniper fire at
his home in front of his wife and four children--of Dr. Barnett A. Slepian,
Buffalo Women Services clinic (providing OB-GYN services for women,
On Tue, October 27, 1998 at 10:33:21 (-0500) Ellen T. Frank writes:
...
Nor is this an academic point. It is precisely because the "free-market"
system in international finance provides no room for the exchange rate to
moderate the very real strains and stresses of international trade that
At 12:18 PM 10/26/98 -0800, Colin wrote:
This is a false dichotomy. You can argue that there are
real forces acting on exchange rates without adopting
an equilibrium model or asserting that markets are
efficient. (Jim D makes a similar point.) I would strongly agree with
Ellen that
I wouldn't pretend to be able to replace Sid's valuable contributions, but
I'll try to send some stories of interest from Canada.
The context of the story below is a very heavy-handed right wing government
who has yet to see a public institution it likes, and brooks no opposition
as it
Comrades,
This is relatively strong stuff, given the broad social movement
network from which it emanates. I think it's worthy of support.
If you agree, send your signature to Njoki right away... 50 Years is
Enough! is still the best p.r. machine we have on this particular
front.
Many
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BLS DAILY REPORT, MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1998
BLS got all the fiscal 1999 funding the Clinton Administration requested
to
I have a feeling that Jim Craven might have posted this already, but in any
case...
**
A little boy goes to his dad and asks, "What is politics?"
Dad says, "Well, Son, let me try to explain it this way: I'm the breadwinner
of the family, so let's call me Capitalism. Your Mom, she's the
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