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1216 Law and Econ elements -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates wrote: Marta, > Burkhauser's ideas are common currency in economics, and I am sure that > he did not believe that you should have been on the same platform with > him. Come the revolution, we will force these jerks to live in the > worst neighborhood in the crappiest town n the country and let them do > shit work for the rest of their lives at minimum wage. > Yes, there was some elitism definitely. We were told we had 20 minutes to present and that was it. Bu ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Mar 19 15:11:47 PST 1999

1217 Law and Econ elements -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: > Send him back Nicole Fortin and Thomas Lemieux, "Institutional Changes and > Rising Wage Inequality: Is There a Linkage?" _Journal of Economic > Perspectives_ 11:2 (Spring 1997), pp. 75-96; and Peter Gottschalk, > "Inequality, Income Growth, and Mobility: The Basic Facts," _Journal of > Economic Perspectives_ 11:2 (Spring 1997), pp. 21-40... > I'd like to send him Mr. Hanky (for South Park fans). thanks, Marta

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Mar 18 13:46:22 PST 1999

1218 Law and Econ elements -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: > The commentator was an economist from Cornell. He was very > critical of > my having used EPI as a reputable source. He said "It's > controlled by >> > > And who might this cupcake be? Richard Burkhauser He got some flack for making some ridiculous comments about SSI. After reading one of his papers... he is very big on cutting down the SSI rolls and says that people on SSI develop pathologies that keep them out of the workforce. This did not ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Mar 18 13:34:45 PST 1999

1219 Law and Econ elements -- rank: 1000

Back from my temporary unsubscribe ... and from a presentation of a working paper on disability, labor and employment to the UC Berkeley law school's ADA Backlash Symposium. I'd like to share some snipets from the experience. Most people presenting papers were academicians and there were a few apologists for the Clinton administration. I expected some flack for not using what passes for "accepted" sources and for presenting a critique based on the political economy- I was proud to be ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Mar 18 11:45:42 PST 1999

1220 temporarily unsub -- rank: 1000

please unsubscribe me temporarily Marta Russell

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Mar 10 14:34:50 PST 1999

1221 incarceration politics -- rank: 1000

> Michael Perelman wrote: > >My suspicion is that policy makers know full well that the present rate of > >incarceration is irrational, but they have fanned the flames of fear and > >cannot > >suddenly claim that crime is no longer so threatening. > To add one more thought. Trent Lott and buddies have been desperate to get prisons exempted from the ADA. Somewhere I read that a large number of prisoners have mental disabilities. We also know here in LA that many g ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Mar 8 18:55:12 PST 1999

1222 in the news -- rank: 1000

Chuck, No apology necessary as far as I see it. It is important to freely express what you feel and think. I did not take offense at anything, just questioned some of it. I am looking forward to meeting you and Doyle. The symposium is probably going to be packed with a bunch of lawyer types anyway. I'm mischievously looking forward to blowing their minds in the tradition of Angela Davis. Marta Russell Chuck Grimes wrote: > Apologies to Marta and Doyle. > > What you heard was the ange ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Mar 5 10:14:15 PST 1999

1223 in the news -- rank: 1000

Chuck and Doyle, The CIL in Berkeley was far advanced as to its politics. The ILC movement across the nation today is much more conservative. The IHSS program in California from the beginning was set up to save the state money. The amount necessary to institutionalize someone is more when comparied to what it costs to allow people to remain in their homes with a personal assistant. I largely fault the state for the current predicament because it could have given a decent wage and health benefi ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Mar 3 16:22:34 PST 1999

1224 in the news -- rank: 1000

Doyle, I appreciate you and what you are. You have an in depth understanding of these issues and I always take you seriously. You are correct to point out that many disabled people have difficulty making the best choices for themselves, this is true of any group of people who have been oppressed by the medical and social services professions. They often feel they are not capable of self determination, and they may falter at times. I am not saying that all disabled people are saints any more th ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Mar 2 11:56:29 PST 1999

1225 in the news -- rank: 1000

Tom, Yes, I think this is one thing they do want to do and certainly if the SEIU includes disabled people in the training process that would be even better. It would be a step towards treating disabled peoples expertise about their own bodies as a valuable part of the job. My friend Nancy Becker Kennedy who is a quadriplegic in LA would be an exellent choice. She is in her late forties and has been a quad since she was 19, she knows the ropes. Marta Tom Lehman wrote: > Dear Marta, > > M ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Mar 2 11:30:44 PST 1999

1226 Jobs being created -- rank: 1000

Maggie, If it is not too much hassle, I would really like to know how I could request a copy from him. Best, Marta MScoleman at aol.com wrote: > There is an excellent report about job creation in New York City put out by > the New York City Budget Office headed by Dr. Larian Angelo called "Empty in > the Middle." The basic point of the report is that the city has lost middle > income jobs (like mine in Bell Atlantic) and that most jobs are either very, > very low paid o ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Mar 2 11:27:05 PST 1999

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Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Michael Perelman wrote: > >The discussion between Marta and Yoshi indicates that the attendants look > >down upon the disabled while the disabled look down upon the lower class > >attendants. We might have a problem here. > > Indeed. And I am sure that this problem of conflict between those who offer > personal service and those who are served exists even when the work in > question is unpaid one performed by family members (mainly wome ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Mar 1 18:18:26 PST 1999

1228 in the news -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: > The discussion between Marta and Yoshi indicates that the attendants look > down upon the disabled while the disabled look down upon the lower class > attendants. We might have a problem here. > > -- This is preposterous, the disabled are the lower class. We are 50% more likely to live in poverty than nondisabled people and have an unemployment rate of 66%. Marta

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Mar 1 17:46:06 PST 1999

1229 HMOs & erosion of privacy -- rank: 1000

The "speaker" is "irishdoc," a physician. But, I thought you would all like to see the arrogance of managed care in action and how irrelevant the patient and the clinician become to an HMO. Marta Russell Yesterday I was hit with a "surprise" chart audit by your local friendly HMO. 3 weeks ago they called and said they were coming into audit charts using HEDIS criteria so they could get their NCQA approval. We were told what patients would be audited and what they e ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Mar 1 11:48:15 PST 1999

1230 in the news -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:The answer is more partnership between workers and disabled people, but for this to happen, first workers have to accept that disabled people are their equals. They have to realize that a quadriplegic can make choices, a blind person does have intelligence even though they cannot see, etc. You would be, no doubt, greatly surprised to see how many nondisabled people make assumptions about disability. There is a theory about this. It is called the "spread effect of pr ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Mar 1 08:55:58 PST 1999