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Invisible Handjobnew
Did the stimulus package satisfy?
Dig Boston |
Alexandra Kiki Tarkhan |
09-01-2010 |
Economy
The Dispossessed: No home, No Money, Nowhere To Benew
It’s hard to say just how many homeless kids there are in Lane County, Oregon. It depends on how you define homeless, or on how the kids themselves define it.
Eugene Weekly |
Camilla Mortensen |
07-01-2010 |
Economy
Tags: Homeless, McKinney-Vento
Pissed off at BP? Then Stop Drivingnew
Want to boycott big oil? Just stop driving, says the owner of 127 BP-affiliated service stations. But please, please don't stop buying Slurpies.
The Other Paper |
Lyndsey Teter |
06-18-2010 |
Economy
Tags: BP
The Making of Manhattan's Elite Welfare Farmersnew
The fattest farm subsidy checks are mailed to the richest New York ZIP codes.
New York Press |
Yasha Levine |
06-17-2010 |
Economy
U.S. Economy: Still a House of Cardsnew
Controversial economist and futurist Ravi Batra believes that another round of very dark days is around the corner, for Americans and the world.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Gayle Reaves |
06-02-2010 |
Economy
Hungry By the Numbersnew
How the government defines hunger — and what it looks like up close.
East Bay Express |
David Bacon and Betsy Edwards |
05-05-2010 |
Economy
All in the Family: Independent Restaurants in Edmonton Band Togethernew
Jessie Radies is the driving force behind Original Fare, made up of a select group of some of Edmonton’s best known independent restaurants. The success of Original Fare, which Radies founded six years ago, begat a blossoming group of similar keep-it-local organizations.
SEE Magazine |
Maurice Tougas |
04-19-2010 |
Economy
Tags: Buy Local, Jessie Radies
Blown to Smithereens: How Dallas Treats Its Historynew
Texas Stadium, rest in pieces. Just after dawn last Sunday, the world's most recognizable hole in the roof was imploded into a hole in the ground, symbolically tearing a hole in the heart of Dallas.
Dallas Observer |
Richie Whitt |
04-19-2010 |
Economy
Tags: Texas Stadium
The Stimulus Spin: Which Projects Did Your Government Pay For?new
The run-down innards of the New Mexico Office of Recovery and Reinvestment suggest a Potemkin stimulus—with a propagandistic online facade masking real economic rot.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Corey Pein |
04-08-2010 |
Economy
Anatomy of a Corporate Layoff
They say getting laid off is better than being "fired for cause." You qualify for unemployment benefits. It looks better to future prospective employers (ha! as though those still existed). Getting laid off isn't personal.
For me, that was the problem.
Tags: Economy
Homeless and Hungry: Portraits by Michael Northrupnew
"I think what interested me was their blatant exposure," the writer says of the men and women who use small squares of cardboard, or even just a plain Styrofoam cup, to make a very public appeal of need. To him, "they just screamed, hey, somebody take a picture."
Baltimore City Paper |
Michael Northrup |
03-16-2010 |
Economy
Still the Promised Land: Poverty, Policy and Hope in the Rust Beltnew
Out west in gigantic, thriving Chicago, there’s a debate underway between a journalist and an IT consultant over whether regionalism can help the hollowing-out cities of the Rust Belt.
If Community Centers Close, the Fallout Could Be Immeasurablenew
It seems the community centers need a miracle. But the people who love them aren't waiting for one. In the last month, moms, dads, grandparents and high schoolers have come together with great joy, enthusiasm and imagination and put up one hell of a fight.
Colorado Springs Independent |
J. Adrian Stanley |
02-18-2010 |
Economy
San Francisco's Employment Rate is Relatively Good, but Leaders Can Create More Jobsnew
Last month, Mayor Gavin Newsom held a press conference at the upscale hot-dog restaurant Show Dogs, packed it with press and midlevel bureaucrats, showed up late, and then led an endless platitude-fest about his plans to promote jobs in San Francisco.
When Life Takes You Out of Your House and Into Your Carnew
Maybe one has even parked on your street: a conversion van, curtains drawn, or a camper with signs of everyday life. They are so ubiquitous in Venice, Calif. that some have been trying to turn the onetime hippie enclave into a parking-permit-only town as a way to ward off "undesirables."
L.A. Weekly |
Linda Immediato |
02-05-2010 |
Economy
