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Baker: Strengthening Worker Retirement Security
Znet Article, March, 09 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Strengthening Worker Retirement Security Testimony of Dean Baker Before the House Committee on Education and Labor Hearing on Strengthening Worker Retirement Security
Jamail: IRAQ: Medical Care At Last, At a Price
Znet Article, March, 06 2009
Dahr Jamail
Jamail's ZSpace page
Prompt medical care is at last on offer in Iraq, for those who can find the dollars for it.
Baker: The Santelli Screed Hits Wrong Target on Mortgage Bailout
Znet Article, March, 04 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
At the risk of spoiling a promising artistic and commercial venture, people should know that Mr. Santelli is firing at the wrong target...
Baker: Are We Really Nostalgic for the Great Depression?
Znet Article, March, 03 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
The Washington policy debates of the last week would almost make a casual observer believe that the nation's political leadership is in fact nostalgic for the good old days of the Great Depression when the country suffered double-digit unemploymen...
Weisbrot: Health Care Reform Is Needed Now More than Ever
Znet Article, February, 28 2009
Mark Weisbrot
Weisbrot's ZSpace page
Obama wants spending that stimulates the economy in the short term, but he also wants to reduce the long-term deficit problem after the economy recovers. This is exactly what health care reform will do.
Baker: Housing Price Decline Accelerates
Znet Article, February, 27 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Housing aid should be focused on nonbubble markets.
Meister: An Rx For Nurses - And Us, Too
Znet Article, February, 23 2009
Dick Meister
Meister's ZSpace page
Those who are seeking reform of the woefully inadequate health care system have a new and powerful ally that aims to put the bulk of the country's registered nurses behind a drive to guarantee decent health care to all Americans.
Goodman: Jailing Kids for Cash
Znet Article, February, 18 2009
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
As many as 5,000 children in Pennsylvania have been found guilty, and up to 2,000 of them jailed, by two corrupt judges who received kickbacks from the builders and owners of private prison facilities that benefited. The two judges pleaded guilty ...
Baker: Stop Baby Boomer Bashing: Protect Social Security and Medicare
Znet Article, February, 16 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Remember all those headlines about how the baby boom cohorts just lost several trillion dollars in home equity due to the collapse of the housing bubble and how they lost trillions more in their retirement accounts as a result of the stock market ...
Goodman: Facing foreclosure? Don't leave. Squat
Znet Article, February, 05 2009
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
Marcy Kaptur of Ohio is the longest-serving Democratic congresswoman in U.S. history. Her district, stretching along the shore of Lake Erie from west of Cleveland to Toledo, faces an epidemic of home foreclosures and 11.5 percent unemployment. Tha...
Hoodbhoy: World Bank Help For Pakistan's Higher Education - A Poisoned Chalice?
Commentary, January, 25 2009
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Hoodbhoy's ZSpace page
Rumor has it that the World Bank is on its way back to Pakistan with a bagful of loans, together with plans for how we must spend the money. A major focus of the Bank's efforts will be higher education reform. No one doubts the desperate need for ...
Goodman: Nothing to Fear Except No Health Care
Znet Article, January, 15 2009
Amy Goodman
Goodman's ZSpace page
Fifty million Americans are without health insurance, and 25 million are "underinsured." Millions being laid off will soon be added to those rolls. Medical bills cause more than half of personal bankruptcies in the U.S. Desperate for care, the und...
Baker: Redefining Chutzpah: Wall Street Goes After Social Security, Again
Znet Article, January, 14 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
Many people, most notably investment banker and Concord Coalition founder Peter Peterson, have questioned the solvency of Social Security based on the fact that its trust fund is held in U.S. government bonds. Peterson and others derisively refer ...
Baker: Right to Rent: Helping Homeowners Without Throwing Money at Banks
Znet Article, January, 12 2009
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
We got into the current economic crisis because many very smart people with outstanding credentials were unable to use simple arithmetic. If they knew arithmetic, they would have been able to see an $8 trillion housing bubble that was right in fro...
Administrator: The Venezuelan Participatory State
Znet Article, December, 26 2008
Site Administrator
Administrator's ZSpace page
This piece examines current attitudes regarding the Venezuelan Community Councils and their relationship with government funding.
Street: Arne Duncan and Neoliberal Racism:
Znet Article, December, 24 2008
Paul Street
Street's ZSpace page
Educational justice advocates are understandably displeased with President Elect Obama’s appointment of Chicago Public Schools (CPS) CEO Arne Duncan to the position of Education Secretary in the next White House.
Sinclair: Interview with Laura Janes on Youth Justice
Znet Article, December, 19 2008
Ian Sinclair
Sinclair's ZSpace page
Interview with Laura Janes.
Baker: Homeownership Without Equity: What's It Worth?
Znet Article, December, 15 2008
Dean Baker
Baker's ZSpace page
It costs roughly $3,000 a year to insure a kid through the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP). Head Start costs around $7,500 per student. The Women, Infants and Children (WIC) nutrition program checks in at about $750 a head.
Meister: Eighty-Hour Workweeks! Thirty-Hour Workdays!
Znet Article, December, 13 2008
Dick Meister
Meister's ZSpace page
It's way past time for Congress to come to the aid of the medical residents who are among our most important providers of hospital care. The young doctors-in-training are being forced to work 80 hours a week, often as long as 30 hours in a single ...
Hill: The Human Rights Problem of Articulating Collective Voice for the Most Marginalized
Znet Article, December, 06 2008
Marcus Hill
Hill's ZSpace page
A Case-Study of Black Panther Accomplishments in Public Health, Governmental Response, and Thoughts on a Better Structure for Pursuing Public Health-Related Human Rights Concerns.
