Issue 221: January/February 1999

Zapping Labor: The Sharp Rise of Income Inequality Initiated in the Early 1980s

How Federal Reserve policies, the recession they triggered, and broader political and economic changes weakened workers’ power and helped usher in an era of extreme inequality.

The Left Wave That Swept Democratic Primaries

A string of primary victories by DSA-backed candidates and other progressives—from New York to Michigan to Florida—is giving the Democratic left new leverage while putting its ambitious economic agenda back at the center of the party’s debate.

features

It's a Bank-Eat-Bank World

Jim Campen
Beyond Patching the Safety Net: A Welfare and Work Survival Strategy

Chris Tilly
What Welfare Reform Has Wrought

Randy Albelda
Health Workers Confront Managed Care

Marc Breslow
Cohousing: Collective Living for the 90s

Eleanor Bader
Gold, Greed, and Cyanide

Pratap Chatterjee
The Philippines: Another IMF Causalty

Anna Manzo and Scott Harris

the regulars

lettersCoops and More Coops
the short runIs the PTA Selling Out? Does God Favor Employers?
active cultureOrganizing as a Human Right / Pie Day
commentCookies are Not So Sweet
making senseThe True Scandal of American Politics / George Soros: Beware Fundamentalism / Nobel Prize Winner Tweaks Free Marketeers / Social Insecurity
in reviewRent Control, Impacts of the Termination of Rent Control, and Toy Wars
ask dr. dollarHousehold Wealth in the United States
economy in numbersDoes Inequality Cause Overwork?

The Political Economy of Palestine

Zapping Labor: The Sharp Rise of Income Inequality Initiated in the Early 1980s

The Left Wave That Swept Democratic Primaries

Issue 221: January/February 1999

features

the regulars