Analysis

Labor Day 2003: A tale of two worlds

September 5, 2003 By Teresa Albano

“Why do workers struggle? Because they have to,” was a favorite refrain of former Maryland AFL-CIO President and Communist Party leader George Meyers. Working families have certainly been forced to struggle for jobs, better wages and...

New York public schools under attack

August 29, 2003

On Aug. 12, 2003, an editorial appeared in the titled “Reforming Special Ed.” The paper said New York Schools Chancellor Joel Klein “has done a tremendous job” in implementing school reform and that “the turnaround in...

Editorials

August 29, 2003

It takes a fight to win On Labor Day 2003, a specter is haunting America. It is called unemployment. In July, the official unemployment level rose to 6.2 percent. This figure hides hundreds of thousands who...

Stop the FTAA, On to Miami!

August 29, 2003

Thousands will be marching in the streets of Miami, Florida, during the week of Nov. 17-21, protesting the proposed Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA). They will pour into Miami from all over the country...

Reject Bushs attack on Medicaid

August 29, 2003 By Phil E. Benjamin

At a June 13 New York forum titled “Ending the safety net as we know it? Assessing the new federal block grant proposals,” leaders of the Community Service Society (CSS) and the Brookings Institution tackled probably...