[PEN-L:6762] Economic Issues reader from Dollars & Sense

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CURRENT ECONOMIC ISSUES: PROGRESSIVE PERSPECTIVES FROM DOLLARS &
SENSE (FORMERLY DECODING THE CONTRACT)

CHAPTER 1: THE FEDERAL BUDGET
1. Death By Devolution: Congress Passes the Buck to the States
2. Budget-Balancing Nonsense: The GOP Attacks the Wrong Problems
3. Pumping up the Pentagon: The Domestic Geopolitics of Defense
Spending

CHAPTER 2: TAX POLICY
4. Aid to Dependent Corporations: Exposing Federal Handouts to the
Wealthy
5. Understanding the Flat Tax
6. The Dole Tax Cut
7. The Capital Gains Tax Giveaway
8. Disappearing Corporate Taxes

CHAPTER 3: GOVERNMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, AND INEQUALITY
9. Is Big Government Really the Problem?
10. Unnecessary Evil: Why Inequality is Bad for Business
11. Putting People First? Clintonomics and Post-Prosperity
Capitalism

CHAPTER 4: POVERTY & WELFARE POLICY
12. Farewell to Welfare, But Not to Poverty
13. The Return of Slavery: Lessons from Workfare in New York City
16. Welfare Myths and Realities
17. Beyond 'Skills': Job Training That Works

CHAPTER 5: THE LABOR MARKET AND INEQUALITY
18. The Racial Divide Widens: Why African-American Workers Have
Lost Ground
19. Child Care Industry: Worthy Work, Worthless Wages 20. Rising
Output, Falling Incomes 21. The Real Un(der)employment Rate

CHAPTER 6: LIFE AND DEATH: HEALTH CARE & ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 22.
Trading Away the Earth: Pollution Credits and the Perils of 'Free
Market Environmentalism' 23. Trashing Recycling: The New Face of
Anti-Environmentalism 24. Medi-Raid 25. Managed Health Care:
Reorganization Without Reform

CHAPTER 7: MONEY IN POLITICS 26. Mischievous Myths About Money in
Politics 27. Government Of, By, & For the Wealthy 28. Soft Money,
Hard Choices: A Primer on Campaign Finance Reform

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