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Welfare Reform, Cold and Warm It is now nearly six years after the passage of landmark welfare “reform” legislation (the wonderfully…
Paul Street
Paul Street is an independent radical-democratic policy researcher, journalist, historian, author and speaker based in Iowa City, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois. He is the author of more than ten books and numerous essays.
Street has taught U.S. history at numerous of Chicago-area colleges and universities. He was the Director of Research and Vice President for Research and Planning at the Chicago Urban League (from 2000 through 2005), where he published a highly influential grant-funded study: The Vicious Circle: Race, Prison, Jobs and Community in Chicago, Illinois, and the Nation (October 2002).
A recent column by popular Chicago business writer David Greising speaks volumes about the limits of recent “mainstream,” well, corporate media commentary…
I know it is no laughing matter when America’s thought police control go on patrol. Still, even if it is just as…
Welfare Reform, Cold and Warm It is now nearly six years after the passage of landmark welfare “reform” legislation (the wonderfully named…
Paul Street Among the many disagreeable parts of the aftermath of September 11, we might include the intensification of internal unpleasantness within…
In an ominous 5-4 decision yesterday, the United States’ right-wing Supreme Court used disingenuous claims of concern for poor inner-city children to…
Thanks in part to recent disclosures that a minimally competent federal security establishment would have had reasons to know and act on…
Paul Street Sometimes it’s the silences that speak the loudest. Consider, for example, a study released last year by a team of…
It’s been quite an interesting experience hearing United States Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld tell us that more…
The Liberal-Left Attack Among the many dark aspects of September 11th’s aftermath we might include the intensification of internal division within an…