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STANDING ROOM ONLY : What to do about prison overcrowding - Brief Article
Until very recently, the U.S. prison system has been our fastest-growing industry, expanding from 500,000 prisoners in 1978 to nearly 2 million in...
Commonweal, 01/25/02 by Ed Marciniak · More from publication -
RACISM ISN'T WHAT IT USED TO BE : But not everyone has noticed - common perception of racism as cause of social marginality
A new vocabulary is surfacing to assess the state of race relations in the United States. The operative words and approaches signal remarkable...
Commonweal, 06/01/01 by Ed Marciniak · More from publication -
Recalculating Poverty - need for noneconomic definition of poverty
More than dollars & cents More than dollars & cents The time has come to de-emphasize the statistical definition of poverty as obsolete,...
Commonweal, 01/28/00 by Ed Marciniak · More from publication -
More than a roof
US policy on housing the urban poor, which has tended to herd the poor into massive housing projects, is in need of reform. The 'Moving to...
Commonweal, 06/01/96 by Ed Marciniak · More from publication -
Why we wrote it
'The Chicago Declaration of Christian Concern' is a report that addressed the question of the clergy's influence on the role of lay people in the...
Commonweal, 09/11/92 by Ed Marciniak · More from publication
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