Last Updated: Apr 16, 2007
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Issue no. 796
Editorial
Editorial: Their crisis is costing us our homes
Pages 2-3
The Detroit Public Schools’ Grapes of Wrath
Book banning and the morality patrol
Student loans: Bankers feeding at the trough
Don Imus fired – but the reactionary media remain
Abortion UltraSound! Lawmakers from the Dark Ages
Maryland “living wage” law: Politics as usual
Pages 4-5
The Chrysler Sit-down of 1937: The Workers Organize
Kerkorian and Iacocca: Circling Chrysler for the third time
Pages 6-7
Hospital System on Life Support
Morocco: Demonstrations and strikes
Judges say Northwest flight attendants don’t have right to strike
Page 8
Iraq: Four years of occupation. The U.S. army must get out!
What a life
Apr 16, 2007
According to a study done at U.C. Berkeley and the Paris School of Economics, the gap between the very rich and everyone else in the United States is as big as it was just before the Great Depression. The report shows that in 2005, the richest 11 per cent of Americans raked in 70 per cent of the nation’s income. Meanwhile, the bottom 89 per cent struggled with only a meager 30 per cent of the nation’s income.
Don’t tell us things are getting better!




