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...collapse of Communism in Poland was precipitated by both economic crisis and political ferment. By 1988, Poland’s command economy, overwhelmed by $6 billion of foreign debt and paralyzed by governmental incompetence, was in serious decline. Workers?? complaints over rising prices precipitated strikes and protests in 1970, 1976, 1980, and 1988. In July, a standoff between miners and the government saw the re-emergence of Solidarity, an illegal trade union...
...auto industry’s collapse, is in debt by roughly half a billion dollars and is implementing a “solvency tax” on some employers to help replenish its fund. The National Employment Law Project—an advocacy group for low-wage workers??reported in late September that Massachusetts was “marginally solvent,” meaning it could pay seven to 11 months of benefits using its reserves. Massachusetts’ unemployment trust fund became insolvent during the 2003 recession, prompting the state to revamp its unemployment insurance system...
...Despite this and other shifts, Lula’s government is not antagonistic to the legacy of Cardoso’s stabilization policies. The president and his left wing Workers?? Party chose to uphold the economic orthodoxy of their predecessor. Brazil’s interest rate remains among the highest in the world at 13.75 percent. This demonstrates that the left and the right have actually agreed on a plan for the country. Their issues are different—modernization of the tax system vs. freedom for the federal police, or control of the government budget vs. poverty...
...School of Economics, the global use of land for the cultivation of tobacco “denies 10 to 20 million people of food.” Furthermore, the 1998 Human Development Report revealed that rampant consumer culture inevitably leads to “circumstances that are exploitative of workers?? and exerts negative psychological pressures on shoppers, leading them to make decisions that are financially harmful or even disastrous. For our daily extravagances—indeed, even for our holiday gifts—we can thus sacrifice human life and wellbeing around the world...
...representative of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers??a 5800-person organization that draws about a third of its membership from FAS—said yesterday that union officials were organizing a meeting with Smith for this week, and would look to emphasize the importance of staff support to the educational mission while exploring alternative cost-cutting measures...