Dollars & Sense articles from January 1995

Dollars & Sense archives from January 1995

You say you want a generation. (commercialization of generation X) (Column)
January 1, 1995... It might have been disturbing to some of us, but it shouldn't have been surprising when Americans in their twenties suddenly coalesced into a neatly packaged generation. Marketers had already tried to tap a wholly fabricated "Pepsi Generation"...

The racial divide widens. (African American workers) (Cover Story)
January 1, 1995... WHY AFRICAN-AMERICAN WORKERS HAVE LOST GROUND Last November's Congressional elections yielded the largest Republican gains in decades. The new leadership includes the right-wing demagogue Newt Gingrich and the racists Strom Thurmond and Jesse...

Our cities, ourselves: the community development movement in adolescence. (community development corporations)
January 1, 1995... Mary Nelson, president of Chicago's Bethel New Life community development corporation for the last fifteen years, started out thinking mostly about housing. She and her colleagues were, after all, faced with the ravaged landscape of Chicago's...

Buffalo's story: African Americans deal with decline in the former city of steel. (Buffalo, New York)
January 1, 1995... Walking through the doors of a community service organization on the corner of Main and Utica, I wonder about the future of this great city, Buffalo, New York. The new mayor envisions a coming renaissance, while state senators talk of the return...

Trade secrets: sexism and export-led growth in South Korea. (includes related articles)
January 1, 1995... South Korea is often held out as a stellar example of the way newly industrializing countries can enjoy rapid growth by focusing on exports. With the advantage of cheap workers, they have an edge in producing goods that require large amounts of...

The privatization myth: disillusionment follows free markets in Hungary. (includes related article)
January 1, 1995... It has been five years since the heady days of 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell and a starry-eyed East Europe embraced free markets. Today, the headlines speak of disillusionment and despair. Branko Milanovic, a baffled senior economist for the...

Mailing mania: privatization fever grips the postal service. (U.S. Postal Service)(includes related articles)
January 1, 1995... Jim Purdy retired from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) in 1992 and briefly worked for a private, automated mail sorting business in Seattle. He remembers, "After three nights, I was throwing [sorting] mail as fast as I used to, almost enjoying...

Chiapas storm. (uprsing in Chiapas, Mexico)
January 1, 1995... On the morning of September 6th, schoolteacher and activist Roberto Hernandez Paniagua got on his bicycle to ride to class in the town of Jaltenango, in Mexico's poorest and southernmost state of Chiapas. He was promptly assassinated by gunmen...

Derivatives: tool for growth or instability? (Primer)
January 1, 1995... Wall Street uses mystery as a lure, and the industry known as "derivatives" is certainly mysterious. In fact, the label "derivatives" covers most of the new financial contracts devised in the last two decades. Derivatives are a double-edged...

Pitied But Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare.
January 1, 1995... The word "welfare" has accumulated so many negative connotations since the beginning of this century that a simple reminder of its dictionary definition is startling: "the condition of faring well; exemption from pain or discomfort; prosperity."...

Trading books for bars. (California budget for education and correctional facilities) (Economy in Numbers)
January 1, 1995... Amid the posturing in California last year around crime, a watershed moment passed virtually unnoticed. For the first time in the state's history, the budget for corrections equals that for higher education. This is indeed a portentious...