[PEN-L:4448] Times Mirror Poll

A new "For Your Files" memo, dated March 9, from the Times Mirror Center for People and the Press (202-293-3126), makes several interesting points. (1) Turnout really mattered in 1994. In 1990, the Party Mix proportions of "likely voters" measured in late polls pretty well matched the Party Mix o

[PEN-L:4449] web site

Someone recently asked me about putting up some econ ideas on a web site. do you think that we could put together a set of left information that could be useful? who would like to work on it? -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 916-898-5321

[PEN-L:4450] Re: web site

On Fri, 17 Mar 1995, Michael Perelman wrote: > Someone recently asked me about putting up some econ ideas on a web site. > > do you think that we could put together a set of left information that > could be useful? who would like to work on it? > -- Louis Proyect: Great idea! A lot of what's

[PEN-L:4452] Re: web site

I agree with Louis Proyect - a web site would be a great resource. The past week or so I've been trying to track down current stats on wealth concentration, income distribution and poverty data with little luck. Thankfully last fall Doug Henwood made available '93 census data on poverty and incom

[PEN-L:4451] Human Needs theory/research

This is my first posting, so I'll introduce myself. I'm a doctoral student in social work and sociology at Michigan, and a member of the Bertha Reynolds Society - progressive social workers. I'm interested in communicating with progressives in economics and other disciplines interests in huma

[PEN-L:4453] Re: web site

> 1. Welfare > 2. Crime > 3. IQ > 4. Taxes > 5. Balanced Budget > 6. Downsizing, unemployment, unionbusting > 7. Third world underdevelopment > 8. etc. > and, let me add, privatising of public services. Ellen Dannin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:4454] Re: web site

Excellent idea. As a non-economist who writes occasionally on economic issues for a general audience, this would be an great resource. Also, I'd find it especially helpful to have info that puts various economic facts in context, such as comparing various categories of gov't expense to the size

[PEN-L:4455] income/poverty

The Census Bureau has just posted the historical income and poverty data on their ftp site (ftp.census.gov). There's a couple of tables missing, which I pointed out to them, and they promised a correction Monday. Doug -- Doug Henwood [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New Yo

[PEN-L:4456] Re: web site

> >Someone recently asked me about putting up some econ ideas on a web site. > >do you think that we could put together a set of left information that >could be useful? who would like to work on it? Michael: as you know i have already been trying to get a collection of left links on my own site

[PEN-L:4457] Bell Curve Teach-in; NYC, 4-1

The Brecht Forum 122 West 27 Street, 10 floor New York, New York 10001 (212) 242-4201 (212) 741-4563 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (e-mail) * Out from under the Bell Curve: A Teach-in on Confronting Right-wing Ideology and Social Policy Saturday, April 1, 9 am-6 pm at Public School 41 Sixth Ave

[PEN-L:4458] Women's Leadership Network (fwd)

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[PEN-L:4459] urgent action (fwd)

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[PEN-L:4460] Re: Phil Gramm

A recent issue of The Nation carried a fairly lengthy article on Gramm. Sid Shniad > > Does anybody have any dope on the background of Phil Gramm, > apparently ex- Texas A&M? > My understnading is that Texas A&M was created out of the desert > wastes, sometime maybe in the late 1960s. > Acad

[PEN-L:4461] Global joblessness worst since 1930's (fwd)

Forwarded message: Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 08:42:47 -0800 Reply-To: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: Forum on Labor in the Global Economy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Nathan Newman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Global joblessness worst since 1930's (fwd)