Issue 253: May/June 2004

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features

• Black Job Loss Deja Vu

  Betsy Leondar-Wright

  Black workers take the biggest hit in the job-loss economy - so what's new?

• No More Savings!

  Ellen Frank

  The case for social wealth.

• BOOK EXCERPT

  The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power

  Joel Bakan

  How companies extract money from young children, and more.

• The Case Against Privatizing National Security

  Ann Markusen

the regulars

• the short run
• letters
• active culture Boston Social Forum
• making sense Bush stirkes out on health care
• up against the Wall Street Journal Telecom deregulation
• comment Haiti in handcuffs / Gay marriage contrarian
• economy in numbers Job-based health insurance