Takoma Park I have long advocated an automatic registration system as a step forward in democracy in America. A couple of days ago there may have been some movement in this direction from a new bipartisan effort called the Committee to Modernize Voter Registration. According to a squib I saw on this new formation, the …
Month: September 2009
Stealing from Poor Workers
Baltimore Ruth Milkman of UCLA and Nik Theodore of University of Illinois, Chicago are top researchers and obviously savvy enough to put out their study, Broken Promises, Unprotected Workers, as an exclusive to Steve Greenhouse at the Times to get maximum attention to their summary of surveys from over 4000 workers in 2008 which indicates …
Massachusetts Immigrants Maybe. Poor, Doubtful
Baltimore A compromise of sorts seems to have been reached in Massachusetts to provide some form of health coverage for the 31,000 LEGAL immigrants in the state that had been bounced off the rolls as a cost savings measure. The other victim of this cost cutting were the poor families whose automatic enrollment in the …