AltWeeklies Wire
What Does Homeless Look Like?new

I don't use drugs or alcohol. I don't rob, steal or cheat. I am not the beggar holding up homemade placards. I didn't live under the Davidson Street Bridge, but I, too, have been evicted.
NUVO |
NUVO Editors |
10-22-2013 |
Homelessness
Tags: employment, economics
Shredding it up in Motownnew

Two 20-somethings carry the hope of a metropolis on their backs in an effort to bring the X Games to Detroit.
Metro Times |
Carl Bookstein |
06-26-2013 |
Economy
9 Things The Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes

As millions of Americans prepare to file their annual taxes, they do so in an environment of media-perpetuated tax myths. Here are a few points about taxes and the economy that you may not know, to consider as you prepare to file your taxes.
Association of Alternative Newsmedia |
David Cay Johnston |
04-14-2011 |
Economy
Tags: economics, Milton Friedman
How We Americans Spent Ourselves Into Ruin but Saved the Worldnew
Something is very wrong with the unselective manner in which folks on the other side have allowed the neocons to define the argument. It is an unfortunate habit of the left to assume that any vocal and assertive appreciation of the American contribution to human civilization must be fascist.
Metro Silicon Valley |
David Brin |
12-11-2009 |
Economy
Count Them In
Growing numbers of Mexican immigrants are in the US illegally -- but their money is legit.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Dan Frosch |
08-24-2005 |
Immigration