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1336 LBO #90 -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: > I received mine last week and it was worth the wait. I spotted an error, > though. Heather Boushey writes: "Time has past since Clinton's signing of > the cleverly named Personal Responsibility Act (PRA) ..." Actually, the > thing's called "The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity > Reconciliation Act" which is odd seeing as how it has little to do with > reconciling work opportunity and personal responsility and much to do wi ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Aug 3 08:32:26 PDT 1999

1337 Dollars and Death -- rank: 1000

For those who may be interested, the Daily News (Los Angeles) ran an op-ed I wrote on assisted suicide and cost containment. -- Marta Russell -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Dollars and Death Daily News Type: application/msword Size: 14336 bytes Desc: Microsoft Word Document URL: <../attachments/19990429/c66aa57c/attachment.wiz>

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Apr 29 17:14:05 PDT 1999

1338 Bombs & Social Security -- rank: 1000

Anyone been watching this funding of the bombing in Yugoslavia?? Clinton has requested $6 billion which is rising every minute with pork barrel additions by members of our illustrious congress. The rub - Clinton, if he gets his way, intends to spend the social security surplus he was protecting only a few months ago!!!! And that won't be the end of it because the military will step in and say that because of Iraq and Kosovo its weapons reserves have been depleted. The military is sure to ask ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Apr 28 20:12:15 PDT 1999

1339 welfare reform/loss of Medicaid CA -- rank: 1000

Belatedly, some info on what is happening in CA re welfare reform and Medicaid. 350,000 Working Families' Health Coverage At Risk SACRAMENTO, Calif. (BW HealthWire) - In an unprecedented move, a statewide network of community health centers, children's advocates, health plans, health consumer groups, and others have joined together to urge the state to stop a process that could cause an estimated 350,000 low income Californians, primarily children in working families, to lose health insurance by ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Apr 28 20:10:36 PDT 1999

1340 Thatcher quote -- rank: 1000

Sam, Thanks for your list of free marketeers and everyone else who sent along some suggestions. A question for one of the Brits: Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (and new Blair buddy) said something to the effect, “there is no society, only individuals.” Can anyone give me a citation for this statement (and or correct me if I've got it off)? -- Marta Russell

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Apr 28 19:06:50 PDT 1999

1341 Free market economists? -- rank: 1000

Another dumb request. Can someone give me the names of a few free market economists aside from Milton Friedman. -- Marta Russell

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Apr 26 16:47:18 PDT 1999

1342 Proclamation on National Crime Victims Rights Week -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood quoting Clinton wrote: > ["a public-private partnership entitled 'Dealing with Our Differences'"; > "it is never too soon to teach our children that violence and hatred are > wrong and have no place in our schools or in our society"] Yea the ass said on TV the night of the shootings (while the bombs were falling in Yugoslavia) "we need to teach our children to use words not weapons." Did HE leave the negotiation table of words? Marta

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Date:	Fri Apr 23 15:11:32 PDT 1999

1343 Wage gap figures question?? -- rank: 1000

Jim Westrich wrote: > Second, women's positions in labor markets are more peripheral than men's > (work less hours, work less weeks, shorter work lives, entry into labor > market later, more career transitions, etc.). I think this is an important > point independent of the first point (I wouldn't be surprised if some > enterprising statistician someday soon will show that controlling for all > kinds of factors women and men get paid the same). While I think wage > discrimi ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Apr 23 13:18:16 PDT 1999

1344 Wage gap figures question?? -- rank: 1000

Heather, Thanks, for both the distinction and the citations. Marta Heather Boushey wrote: > The numbers you want are the ones you already found: women ($24,973) are paid > less than men ($33,674) for full time, full year workers. > > Check out: http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/p02.html > for tables on median income by race and gender for all persons and > http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/p03.html > for mean income. > > Note that the above tables are f ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 22 16:23:37 PDT 1999

1345 Wage gap figures question?? -- rank: 1000

Jim Westrich wrote: > At 05:00 PM 4/21/99 , you wrote: > >Marta Russell wrote: > > > >>Looking over the CPS census data I found that women ($24,973) are paid > >>less than men ($33,674). > > The median woman in the labor force earns around $19,000. The median man > earns around $30,000 (exact numbers available on request). Medians below > means are indicative of inequality and the fact that for women the median > is substantially lower than the m ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Apr 22 14:09:08 PDT 1999

1346 Wage gap figures question?? -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: > The per capita figures include kids; the numbers for men and women are for > those 15 and over, and only include those with income >0. If I'm > remembering right, back in the old days, only about half of women had > income >0; now it's about 90% or so. > > Doug Thanks for such a quick answer!! Oh, so one more dumb question. Where would you get earnings figures for black, white, hispanic working age adults (15 and over) then? -- Marta Russell

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Date:	Wed Apr 21 16:33:25 PDT 1999

1347 US dismantles Russian arms -- rank: 1000

As the bombs fall on Belgrade, members of the Business Roundtable, the Trilateral Commission, the Bilterberg Group must be in stitches from laughing too hard over how successful they have been in destroying any meaningful opposition to capital. Marta Russell Doug Henwood wrote: > Boston Globe - April 20, 1999 > > Disarming of Russia continues > By David Filipov > > SERGIYEV POSAD, Russia - Relations between the United States and Russia may > have reached their lowest point s ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Apr 21 15:36:22 PDT 1999

1348 Wage gap figures question?? -- rank: 1000

If one of you economists could explain this data, it is beyond me. Looking over the CPS census data I found that women ($24,973) are paid less than men ($33,674). But when I looked for numbers by race, I could choose between per capita and household comparisions. Per capita for blacks ($12,351 ), Asian ($18,226) and Hispanics ($10,773) were less than whites ($20,425). The Household figures placed Asians way above whites which must have to do with numbers of earners in the household? The immediat ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Apr 21 14:48:58 PDT 1999

1349 rich and powerful mobilization -- rank: 1000

Thanks Michael, I got my quote from the George Seldes "The Great Quotations." It seems that it is not direct from Smith's book. Hmmmmmm Marta Michael Perelman wrote: > Smith, Wealth of Nations, I.x.c.27, p. 145 "People of the same trade > seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the > conversation ends in a conspiracy against the publick, or in some > contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible to prevent such meetings, > by any law which ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Apr 17 22:48:17 PDT 1999

1350 rich and powerful mobilization -- rank: 1000

The political economy truism that the rich and powerful mobilize state power to serve their interests was formulated by Adam Smith. Does anyone know readily (easily) where I can find this quote: People of the ame trade seldom meet together but the conversation ends ina consipiracy against the public, or in some diversion to raise prices. Marta Russell

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Date:	Sat Apr 17 15:26:54 PDT 1999