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Medicaid Kayfabe: Fake Wrestling

The features of the bill that are likely to help ordinary people were catchy and easy to understand—reduced taxes on tips and overtime pay and a higher standard deduction for the elderly on income taxes. Yet these projected revenue losses are tiny compared to those incurred by the super rich.

Nancy Folbre

Issue 231: September/October 2000

features

  • The Political Economy of Disablement

    Marta Russell

  • They Say Give Back, We Say Fight Back

    Peter Rachleff

    The legacy of the Hormel strike, fifteen years later.

  • "The Life of the Union"

    An interview with Gladys McKenzie

  • "Workers Who Understand Struggle"

    An interview with Jane Rykunyk

  • The Wal-Mart Trap

    Annette Bernhardt

  • Profits and Prejudice

    Suzanne Gordon

    The undervalued work of nursing.

  • Importing Nurses

    A moneymaking venture.

  • What's Wrong with Welfare to Work?

    Randy Albelda

  • An Immodest Proposal

    Women's Committee of 100

  • Josefina Flores

    David Bacon

    A veteran of the war in the fields

  • Know-Nothings and Know-It-Alls

    Jessica Collins and John Miller

    What's wrong with the hype about globalization.

  • Financing Environmental Moderation in China

    Daniel Delisi

  • Useful Contacts for Working Women

the regulars

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  • primerBorderline Neoliberalism
  • active cultureCorporation Behaving Badly
  • commentTake Our Daughters...Where?
  • making senseThe Story of a Garment Worker
  • in reviewHow Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America
  • ask dr. dollarHoratio Alger Lives?
  • economy in numbersCounting Women's Homebased Work

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