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Debunking Prop 8 Myths

Here is an e-mail I received from Equality California about Prop 8–
The study, authored by Professor Kenneth Sherrill of Hunter College-CUNY and Professor Patrick J. Egan of New York University, was funded by the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund and released in collaboration with the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, Freedom to Marry [...]

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“Romanticizing the Poor”

“Market solutions to poverty are very much in vogue. These solutions, which include services and products targeting consumers at the “bottom of the pyramid,” portray poor people as creative entrepreneurs and discerning consumers. Yet this rosy view of poverty-stricken people is not only wrong, but also harmful. It allows corporations, governments, and nonprofits to deny [...]

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Obama Pledges Public Works on a Vast Scale

WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama committed Saturday to the largest public works construction program since the creation of the interstate highway system a half-century ago as he seeks to put together a plan to resuscitate the reeling economy…
…Mr. Obama’s remarks sought to expand the definition of traditional work programs for the middle class, like infrastructure [...]

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Economy: $700 billion Government Bailout

In case you haven’t heard about it yet (since all news media sources are talking about it), the Bush administration proposed a $700 billion government bailout to buy bad mortgage debt and would be run directly by the Treasury Department. What the government purchases and what time it does would be by the government’s own [...]

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Food, Inc.

The entertainment company Participant Media is one I stumbled upon a couple weeks ago in search (out of boredom) for some internships… I couldn’t actually apply for any of them due to school/location but I went on their website and realized Participant Media is the company behind An Inconvenient Truth, The Kite Runner, and many [...]

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