[PEN-L:3815] welfare "reform"

"Welfare Babies Bother You? Drown 'Em "A modest proposal to keep our corporate plazas clear of children begging for food" by Robert Scheer, LA Times, Jan. 15, 1995 ("column left") "They're not so tough, these Republican welfare bashers like Gov. Pete Wilson and the Newtonians in Congress. What

[PEN-L:3814] Re: exports

I appreciate Doug's correction to what I have posted. I misspoke. There is indeed no drift to protectionism in the neo-colonial world. There may indeed be a need for a drift towards certain kinds of protectionism (which is Raghavan's argument), and towards the demonstration of such need, th

[PEN-L:3813] Re: cuts in general assistance

Randy Albelda wrote: >I believe that NY and NJ are the only two states left with GA. According to the 1992 Annual Stat Supplement to Soc. Sec. Bulletin, the number of those receiving GA has not really fallen up through 1990. I don't have data for after that. (In 1990 over 1.2 million people

[PEN-L:3812] Statement by Women Academics on Welfare

From: AQUILA::"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" 17-JAN-1995 19:04:00.97 To: AQUILA::"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" CC: Subj: please forward to relevant lists January 17, 1995 To the hundreds of women academics who signed the statement protesting the welfare reform proposals, both Democratic and Republican:

[PEN-L:3811] Re: rationality

On Tue, 17 Jan 1995, Robin Hahnel wrote: > I have been eaves dropping on the great Penl rationality debate. > At this point I would like to second the posting from Gil Skillman > that argues that most important progressive critiques of capitalism > can be conducted within the confines of reasonab

[PEN-L:3810] Re: exports

quoting bits of Doug Henwood's last post .. " Protectionism? Where? Raghavan and other Third World analysts talk about First World protectionism, but my AT&T phone is made in Singapore, my Apple keyboard and my Sony TV were assembled in Mexico, my breakfast blueberries came from Chile"

[PEN-L:3809] Re: cuts in general assistance

At 9:52 AM 1/17/95, Eban Goodstein wrote: >Has anyone done a follow-up on the impact of the elimination of general >assistance in Michigan? We're likely to see a similar move here in New >York, and could use some ammunition. >What happened to the 350,000 recipients? >A big increase in homelessness

[PEN-L:3808] Re: cuts in general assistance

The report on GA cuts if called "What Happened to Former GA REcipients? by Sandra Danziger and Sherrie Kossoudji out of Univ of Michagan. It is a great study (funded by the Ford Foundation, I think) which essentially found that most (former) GA recipients were is poor health and faced enormous jo

[PEN-L:3807] Re: exports

At 9:30 AM 1/17/95, jones/bhandari wrote: >On the importance of exports to a late capitalism, see Henryk Grossmann's >1929 discussion of "foreign trade and the sale of commodities at prices of >production deviating from their values." > >Here's an indication of the argument: > >..an injection of

[PEN-L:3806] 1994 US election

Students of US politics might be interested in the following, just out from the Times Mirror Center for People and the Press. Note that 2/3 of the population are nonvoters, and their answers are virtually identical to Dem voters. Point 1: Only 17% of the American public voted for the "Republica

[PEN-L:3805] Re: rationality

I have been eaves dropping on the great Penl rationality debate. At this point I would like to second the posting from Gil Skillman that argues that most important progressive critiques of capitalism can be conducted within the confines of reasonable rationality assumptions. I have always thought

[PEN-L:3804] NSF Teaching Enhancement Workshop deadline

I was asked to post the following announcement to several email groups in economics. Please excuse any multiple postings you receive. Ross Emmett -- Due to the interest in the NSF project exhibited at the ASSA meetings, we hav

[PEN-L:3803] Re: cuts in general assistance

If my memory serves me there has been an evaluation of GA cuts in Michigan. You might try contacting Poverty & Race Research Action Council, 1711 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20009 (Phone 202/387-9887; FAX 202/387-9887). Also the Center on Social Welfare Policy and Law in Washington

[PEN-L:3802] Re: New Party piece

the black panther party did not begin as a demoncratic party splinter group. the substance of henwood's posting was entirely correct. peace, pat mason

[PEN-L:3801] Re: New Party piece

> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > No genuine political party that I have EVER heard of arose EXCEPT > > out of an internal struggle of existing political parties, obviously drawing > > in politically active elements from the outside. The emergence of the > > Republican party from the Whig

[PEN-L:3800] Some people are never satisfied

ECONOMIST BLAMES WOES ON NAFTA; URGES CANADA, MEXICO TO QUIT PACT WASHINGTON -- A leading Mexican economist has urged Canada and his own country to get out of the North American Free Trade Agreement, saying it's largely to blame for the near collapse of the Mexican economy and currency problems i

[PEN-L:3799] Re: cuts in general assistance

Eban Goodstein referred to cuts in general assistance in Michigan and the potential for cuts in other states. Have any other states recently cut general assistance for poor people? Eric Nilsson Department of Economics California State University San Bernardino, CA 92407 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L:3798] cuts in general assistance

Has anyone done a follow-up on the impact of the elimination of general assistance in Michigan? We're likely to see a similar move here in New York, and could use some ammunition. What happened to the 350,000 recipients? A big increase in homelessness? Thanks, Eban ** Eban Goodstei

[PEN-L:3797] Re: exports

On the importance of exports to a late capitalism, see Henryk Grossmann's 1929 discussion of "foreign trade and the sale of commodities at prices of production deviating from their values." Grossmann's Law of Accumulation and the Breakdown of the Capitalist System has been translated and abridge

[PEN-L:3796] Request for info/thoughts on block grants

Request for information or thoughts on block grants The welfare "reform" component of the Contract With America is the Personal Responsibility Act (which in essence allows the federal government to relieve itself of any responsibility to AFDC recipients). But, it is beginning to look like this m

[PEN-L:3795] Re: real interest rates

At 10:20 AM 1/16/95, Michael Perelman wrote: >Management, together with government policies, including redistributive tax >rates, succeeded in increasing profits on a shrinking manufacturing base -- >no mean achievement. Even so, and here is my question, how did real interest >rates outrun prof

[PEN-L:3794] Re: New Party piece

Thank you Elaine Bernard for dismissing J Case's use of Trotskyist as a term of abuse in his/her response to my New Party critique. Apparently it's a favorite term of New Partisans, since that's how they characterized my 1993 pieces on the Party; maybe it has something to do with their CP connecti

[PEN-L:3793] EEA in NYC 3/17/95

CALL FOR PAPERS (Apologies for cross-posting.) AN E-MAIL EXPERIMENT *** 21st Annual Conference EASTERN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION