[PEN-L:9082] Canadian Council On Social Development Releases Study On Poverty

Between 1984 and 1994, the average poor family was six per cent worse off, the study released on Tuesday by the Canadian Council on Social Development points out. It says that "more than half a million Canadian families relied on public income supports to keep them above the poverty line in

[PEN-L:9081] Re: The Sozialismus and Social Text Affairs

I, for one, am very happy to see that Jerry Levy has taken up comedy. It's a welcome relief from all that moralizing and all that value theory - easier on him, in all probability, and certainly on his audience. Doug -- Doug Henwood Left Business Observer 250 W 85 St New York NY 10024-3217 USA

[PEN-L:9080] Utopians quarreling

It is really hard to believe, but adherents to rival utopian visions can have nasty splits just like "Marxist-Leninists". Evidence of this is contained in the most recent copy of "Democracy and Nature", a journal formerly known as "Society and Nature". The International Managing Editor is Takis