Set of four: $18, or individually as priced below.
Poverty, Inc.
Winner of the 1994 John Hancock Award for Excellence in Business
and
Financial Journalism and one of Project Censored's top 10
most
underreported stories. This issue examines the debt cycles
created by lenders that charge poor people exorbitant rates--and
how citizens are fighting back.
(Issue #93, Fall 1993) $5.
Punishing the Poor
This award-winning special section examines mandated state-run "workfare" programs that are punishing the people they were designed to help. Also, how Food Lion treats its workers.
(Issue #84, Summer 1991) $5.
Flowers in the Desert Die
The hidden link between the South and Central America: El Salvadoran death squads in Houston, Southern congressmen supporting the Contras, and efforts to establish a tropical empire. An essential resource for solidarity groups.
(Issue #74, Winter 1988) $5.
Law and Disorder
An examination of a war on drugs that means big bucks for police and
prisons; lawmen dealing drugs. How tenants in public housing fight their own
war on drugs. And how white police are an occupying force in many black
communities. (Issue #82, Winter 1990) $5.
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