CURRENT ECONOMIC ISSUES: PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVES FROM DOLLARS & SENSE (FORMERLY DECODING THE CONTRACT) CHAPTER 1: THE FEDERAL BUDGET 1. Death By Devolution: Congress Passes the Buck to the States 2. Budget-Balancing Nonsense: The GOP Attacks the Wrong Problems 3. Pumping up the Pentagon: The Domestic Geopolitics of Defense Spending CHAPTER 2: TAX POLICY 4. Aid to Dependent Corporations: Exposing Federal Handouts to the Wealthy 5. Understanding the Flat Tax 6. The Dole Tax Cut 7. The Capital Gains Tax Giveaway 8. Disappearing Corporate Taxes CHAPTER 3: GOVERNMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, AND INEQUALITY 9. Is Big Government Really the Problem? 10. Unnecessary Evil: Why Inequality is Bad for Business 11. Putting People First? Clintonomics and Post-Prosperity Capitalism CHAPTER 4: POVERTY & WELFARE POLICY 12. Farewell to Welfare, But Not to Poverty 13. The Return of Slavery: Lessons from Workfare in New York City 16. Welfare Myths and Realities 17. Beyond 'Skills': Job Training That Works CHAPTER 5: THE LABOR MARKET AND INEQUALITY 18. The Racial Divide Widens: Why African-American Workers Have Lost Ground 19. Child Care Industry: Worthy Work, Worthless Wages 20. Rising Output, Falling Incomes 21. The Real Un(der)employment Rate CHAPTER 6: LIFE AND DEATH: HEALTH CARE & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 22. Trading Away the Earth: Pollution Credits and the Perils of 'Free Market Environmentalism' 23. Trashing Recycling: The New Face of Anti-Environmentalism 24. Medi-Raid 25. Managed Health Care: Reorganization Without Reform CHAPTER 7: MONEY IN POLITICS 26. Mischievous Myths About Money in Politics 27. Government Of, By, & For the Wealthy 28. Soft Money, Hard Choices: A Primer on Campaign Finance Reform AVAILABLE DECEMBER 1996 FROM DOLLARS & SENSE, 1 SUMMER ST., SOMERVILLE, MA 02143, (617) 628-8411, FAX 628-2025, EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] DESK COPIES ARE FREE, PLEASE SEND $3 FOR POSTAGE. CONTACT MARC BRESLOW OR ABBY SCHER WITH QUESTIONS.
