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A Tale of Race and Recovery

By yvonnegrapher | Published: September 30, 2009
via RaceWire It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair…we had everything before us, we had nothing before us.* The Obama administration enacted the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) back in February, the largest boon to public spending and [...]
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Tent City

By yvonnegrapher | Published: April 25, 2009
“Excuse me, where’s the tent city?” The man with matted dreadlocks and a weathered face from the sun squinted at me. He wore a white tee shirt grey with wear and slung a tattered jean jacket over his shoulder, hot from the afternoon sun. “Why would you want to go there?” Why indeed. Like [...]
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All Your Marbles Are Belong To Us

By yvonnegrapher | Published: March 21, 2008
We’re all subprime now, so says the general consensus by economists while the Fed bails out Bear Stearns and provides corporate welfare to the tune of over $13 billion daily $28 billion in just three days. How did this happen, I and David Leonhardt ask? Steve Randy Waldman tries to explain it to us: Alice, Bob, and Sue [...]
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