Joel Wendland-Liu

Joel Wendland-Liu is the author of Mythologies: A Political Economy of U.S. Literature in the Long Nineteenth-Century and The Collectivity of Life: Spaces of Social Mobility and the Individualism Myth. He is currently finishing his book project titled “Simply to Be Americans? Literary Radicalism and Early U.S. Monopoly Capitalism.”

LATEST ARTICLES BY Joel Wendland-Liu

U.S.

Health reform and rural America
October 27, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Health reform being considered in Congress now would address the special concerns of rural Americans, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told reporters Tuesday, Oct 27th.
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U.S.

It’s a woman’s world
October 23, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu
A new study declares the "war of the sexes" to be over. According to the findings of a newly released joint report from California First Lady Maria Shriver and the Center for American Progress, Americans are...
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U.S.

Cap and trade controls smog, says EPA
October 16, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu
A new report from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week touted the success of a cap and trade program (known as NOx Budget Trading Program, or NBP) that regulates emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) in...
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U.S.

Senate committee passes health bill
October 13, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu
After an eleventh hour push by health insurance lobbyists to derail reform by threatening to raise premiums if a reform bill passes, the Senate Finance Committee passed its version of a reform bill with a bipartisan...
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U.S.

If that’s socialized medicine, I’m for it
October 8, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu
A bipartisan group of more than 1,000 state lawmakers have signed a letter to Congress calling for real health reform that includes a public option, according to a recent press conference call organized by the Progressive...
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Labor

Workers will see a recovery?
October 5, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Demands are growing to use leftover bailout money to provide jobs for the unemployed.
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U.S.

Swine flu vaccine on the way
September 26, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu
Preparations for this year's flu season seem well underway as the H1N1 virus sweeps the country.
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U.S.

Health insurance premiums grow faster than wages
September 24, 2009 By Joel Wendland-Liu
While wage growth, impacted by inflation, has eroded steadily over the past decade, the cost of a typical health insurance plan has grown as much as 150 percent, a new report put out by the Obama...
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