Dear State Senator John Bonacic (New York): Thank you for your reply on October 8th to my letter regarding the distribution of a bit of extra to welfare recipients this summer. In response, I begin by drawing your attention to the opinion of prominent economists working at the international and national levels who are far [...]
September 22, 2010Public Employee Press125 Barclay StreetNew York, NY 10005Dear Public Employee Press Editor:I am a local 768 social worker working in pediatrics, and am troubled to read about the deal to cut $12 billion from the Food Stamp program in order to fund the $26 billion Jobs Bill. This deal was aggressively advocated for [...]
Toward Full Unemployment: Moving Beyond Wage Slavery By Robert Theobald The movement to abolish chattel slavery took fire when we began to realize how demeaning it was for people to be owned by another person who held the power of life and death over them. Uncle Tom's Cabin opened up a fiery debate which led [...]
Author's note: I wrote and mailed this letter in January via regular mail (NYC Housing central office does not give out its fax numbers). I am still awaiting response. January 6, 2011 John Rhea, Chairman New York City Housing Authority 250 Broadway New York, NY 10007 Dear Mr. Rhea: I am writing because I have [...]
I was real tickled to see Tim Pawlenty on Jon Stewart this week, since it was only a few months ago that I wrote about him and his disconnect from the policy realities of the United States. Pawlenty is just one more ordinary person who has no talent for policymaking, managed to convince a lot [...]
Michael J. Keegan, Managing Editor The Business of Management Magazine IBM Center for the Business of Government 1301 K Street NW Washington, D.C. 20005 Dear Mr. Keegan: I was very interested in your interview with Mr. Robert Doar of the New York City Human Resources Administration (HRA) in your Spring 2010 edition, thanks, since I [...]
It is great that Sandra Lee, the girlfriend of new New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, feels strongly about helping people who have no money for food. I worry though that she will be diverted from helping people, and instead her good will will result in food pantries to growing larger. While on its surface it [...]
To the Editor at NY Times: The abortion rate here is "downright chilling" as the Archbishop says. While I consider myself a feminist, I do not share NOW's zeal for abortion. The conference protestors chanted "we're here to say, family planning is OK." But abortion is not family planning, contraception is. Abortion should be available [...]
Dear Editor: Mr. Sica thinks money to hire sanitation workers can be gotten by not giving Food Stamps to obese people. A few facts are in order. The amount of Food Stamps given to one person is maximum $5 per day. You’d have to cut 100 people off Food Stamps for one year to get [...]
I believe that those of us who want to move policy reforms to help unpaid caregivers get both better service supports and income supports have a duty to be supportive of all the combined efforts. We have enough going against us at the policy/power levels and don’t need better known advocates trying to quash the [...]