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White-collar blues and the vanishing American dream
December 29, 2005Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream By Barbara Ehrenreich Henry Holt and Co., 2005, Hardcover, 237 pp., $24 After writing her book-length description of surviving on a minimum wage in “Nickel and...
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Cubas revolutionary doctors
December 29, 2005Cuba this year graduated 1,905 new doctors. They pledged, in part, the following: “True medicine is not that which cures, but that which prevents, whether in an isolated community on our island or in any sister...
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The downward cycle of the U.S. economy
December 28, 2005“Free traders are resurrecting class war, not because they are Marxists but because they confuse free trade with global labor arbitrage. ... Committed to a 200-year-old theory that they no longer understand, free traders are cheering...
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An antidote to disinformation about North Korea
December 28, 2005North Korea: Another Country By Bruce Cumings The New Press, 2004 Softcover, 241 pp. $15.95 Bruce Cumings, a history professor at the University of Chicago and a former Peace Corps volunteer in South Korea, has given...
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NYC transit workers go back to work stronger
December 24, 2005NEW YORK—After a three-day strike by bus and subway workers that brought NYC to a virtual standstill, Transport Workers Union Local 100 President Roger Toussaint announced Thursday afternoon that the strike would end. Toussaint spoke after...
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