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Issue 221: January/February 1999

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?