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31561 Scaping By: Ehrenreich Interview -- rank: 1000

Roger Odisio wrote: >As far as I know, Orshansky said little about this back then, being an >obscure staff person. Did she give any sense of this now? Did she say >anything about her current circumstances, or give any idea about how to >reach her? <http://people.yahoo.com/py/psPhoneSearch.py?FirstName=mollie&LastName=orshansky&City=&State=> I've tried calling a few times, but no answer. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 16 14:00:28 PDT 2001

31562 Scaping By: Ehrenreich Interview -- rank: 1000

j.f. noonan wrote: >On Wed, 16 May 2001, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> michael pugliese wrote: >> >> > Last week, All Things Considered interviewed the statistician >> >at the Dept. of Labor who came up with the basket of goods guidelines >> >for poverty for a family of X back in the 60's. >> >> Who? Are you thinking of the Social Security Admin economist >> Mollie Orshansky? > >Yes, I think that's her name, I heard the pie ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 16 13:28:36 PDT 2001

31563 Scaping By: Ehrenreich Interview -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese wrote: > Last week, All Things Considered interviewed the statistician >at the Dept. of Labor who came up with the basket of goods guidelines >for poverty for a family of X back in the 60's. Who? Are you thinking of the Social Security Admin economist Mollie Orshansky? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 16 13:05:37 PDT 2001

31564 Mexican recession -- rank: 1000

So Mexican GDP is down two quarters in a row (00Q4 & 01Q1) - meaning that by one conventional definition, the country's in recession. The U.S. slowdown seems to be hurting Latin America. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 16 13:04:46 PDT 2001

31565 Ashcroft's prayer circle -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >He's a very slow reader then. When is he gonna get to Matthews 19 and 21 >and all that camels and needles and tables in temples stuff? Lots of American Xians have never had a problem with that. Wealth is a sign you're chosen by God - one of the people pulling the wagon rather than riding in it, as the odious Phil Gramm once put it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 16 11:43:37 PDT 2001

31566 Scraping By: Ehrenreich interview -- rank: 1000

alex lantsberg wrote: >what would the poverty level be if housing, health care, energy, >transportation, and other modern necessities were evaluated in the >determination? would there be a practical way to adjust for high cost >areas like SF, NY, Boston, etc. within the benefit awards? Most "liberal" efforts to re-think the U.S. poverty line come up with poverty rates about 1.5-2.0 times present official levels. Right now, there's no easy way to adjust for local cost of l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 16 11:33:07 PDT 2001

31567 Ashcroft's prayer circle -- rank: 1000

Christopher Rhoades D˙kema wrote: >But this is too optimistic: > >> A bit too much concern is expressed over the religious right. I'm as >> guilty of this as anyone. > >It is just when they feel threatened that they are liable to do the most >dangerous things, use their institutional power to attack civil liberties, >etc. It is now, when their social psychological base is ebbing, that we >should be most forceful about them. Our chief law enforcement officer is ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 16 09:57:15 PDT 2001

31568 Approval and Condemnation: Must they be based on Morality? -- rank: 1000

Archer.Todd at ic.gc.ca wrote: >The fact that for millennia humans >have found gods, spirits, and devils because of their imagination and >ignorance, or the tendency for (at least some) humans to magnify another >human being into a "god?" "Sad men made angels of the sun..." - Wallace Stevens

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 15 11:55:39 PDT 2001

31569 FOMC statement -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >The monetary policy regime of the USA is now officially a >NASDAQ target, am I wrong? Seems that way, though they won't admit it. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 15 11:40:24 PDT 2001

31570 FOMC statement -- rank: 1000

[The language is pretty friendly - like they're ready to do more.] <http://www.federalreserve.gov/BoardDocs/Press/general/2001/20010515/default.htm> Release Date: May 15, 2001 For immediate release The Federal Open Market Committee at its meeting today decided to lower its target for the federal funds rate by 50 basis points to 4 percent. In a related action, the Board of Governors approved a 50 basis point reduction in the discount rate to 3-1/2 percent. A significant reduction in excess ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 15 11:24:35 PDT 2001

31571 gasoline prices on the web -- rank: 1000

Bob Morris wrote: > >>In my area of L.A., regular is about $2.05 and premium about $2.25. And >>rising. > >>Yes! Only $2.95 to go (for regular)!! > >You wouldn't, by chance, live in an area with workable public >transportation, would you?? Yeah, I do, but you knew that. Gasoline in the U.S. is very cheap - not only by world standards, but by our own historical standards. It took 12 minutes of work at the average hourly wage to buy a gallon in 1949; that fell to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 15 09:17:19 PDT 2001

31572 judicial tyranny -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >We are indoctrinated as lawyers to think law _isn't_ just politics, >that its legitimacy derives from adherence to internally consistent >principles--the meaning of statutes and the constitutional language, >respect for precedent. Really? This naivete makes economists look worldly. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 15 09:23:50 PDT 2001

31573 judicial tyranny -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >conservative judicial >activists So what argument do you have from law or principle that conservative judicial activism is any different from liberal judicial activism? Is it that you just like liberal judicial activism better? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 14 14:41:28 PDT 2001

31574 Ollman & McCloskey & Spivak & Klare -- rank: 1000

michael pugliese wrote: > Bertell Ollman blurbs a book by Ayn Rand scholar, Chris Scialabbra, >on dialectics. Sciabarra did his diss under Ollman. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 14 13:22:16 PDT 2001

31575 JEC to Fed: cut rates -- rank: 1000

[Did Democratic chairs of the JEC ever say things like this?] For Immediate Release Press Release #107-21 May 14, 2001 Contact: Christopher Frenze Executive Director (202) 225-3923 FED RATE CUT NEEDED WASHINGTON, D.C. - Action by the Federal Reserve tomorrow to reduce short-term interest rates is still needed to unwind tightness in monetary policy, Joint Economic Committee Chairman Jim Saxton said today. "The Federal Reserve should make a significant interest rate cut to further adjust its ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 14 11:07:08 PDT 2001