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new powers in determining the national budget. That was a par- ticularly bad move. Overall, the agreement puts many important budget decisons on "automatic pilot," and substantially alters the...

Variant views on abortion (October 1990)

REPORT FROM ALL OVER VARIANT VIEWS ON ABORTION CONTINUING THE DEBATE Some months ago in a weak moment, I agreed to join the debate on abortion that Commonweal's editors proposed to their readers...

Fighting or friendly? (January 1989)

THE NEW CONGRESS FIGHTING OR FRIENDLY? DEFICITS & SOCIAL PROGRAMS The 101st Congress that convenes this month could prove to be one of the most fractious of recent years. It must attempt to deal...

What came in like a lion: (October 1988)

WELFARE REFORM WHAT CAME IN LIKE A LION WENT OUT LIKE A WIMP What is now trumpeted by its sponsors as the most significant revision of welfare in fifty-three years, has been described by...

The worker's mite (May 1988)

MINIMUM-WAGE LEGISLATION THE WORKER'S MITE TO BE PAID & STILL POOR Having a job ought to mean something: food on the table, a place to live, a way to pay the doctor when the kids get sick....

Where the money goes: (March 1988)

BUDGET'89 WHERE THE MONEY GOES GUNS & INDEBTEDNESS A basic rule of the federal budget process is that the president proposes, but the Congress disposes. Until the mid-seventies, however, the White...

Poor people: advocates on their own behalf: (February 1988)

Poor people: advocates on their own behalf Try to imagine that Congress is planning a major overhaul of the tax laws that will affect your income and the incomes of millions of people like you. They...

Magic from below (October 1986)

the two recent common-sensical newspaper columns by Arch- On October 12, it will be ten years since Joao Bosco Burnier bishop Rembert G. Weakland have, without touching at all ...

A growing hemorrhage (July 1986)

chased copies of the Ten Commandments while Mr. Manion's freedom is to survive its own defense. measure, introduced in the Indiana state senate, only involved Nominees Rehnquist and...

Welfare in Minnesota (May 1986)

156 pp.), Forrest D. Colburn gives a bleak report card on caprice of Christian prejudice. How remarkable Rabbi Toaff Sandinista economics - and reports widespread dissatisfac- ...

A needless shortage (February 1986)

still in the attack zones, surrounded by army troops and des- can see that the word of God is the great source of strength in perate for food and medicine. ...

'Get beyond labels' (January 1986)

national policy in regards to food assistance. In 1984-85, for example, BFW led a successful nationwide campaign which culminated in the Africa Relief and Recovery Act, appropriating $800...

'Practical politics' (January 1986)

high employment? What jobs will unskilled, semi-skilled, or newly skilled laborers find given the high unemployment rate? Will these workfare participants be in direct competition for jobs with...

The caretakers (December 1985)

Social activism today THE CARETAKERS NO GREAT AMERICAN SELLOUT I'VE HEARD IT; you've heard it; everybody knows it. In the 1980s, everybody cares only about themselves. We've all sold out for...

Statistics cheat (November 1985)

Who is poor & why? STATISTICS CHEAT POVERTY AMERICAN-STYLE A WOMAN I KNOW has raised four children alone, much of the time on remarkably little money Lately, she says, it seems as though some...

Dealing a fair tax reform (October 1985)

WHY TAKE MORE FROM THE LEAST? Dealing a fair tax reform NANCY AMIDEI PRESIDENT Reagan came back from his California ranch eager to do battle against a tax code he describes as "like a daily...

Too high a price (August 1985)

Medical malpractice TOO HIGH A PRICE PHYSICIANS & PATIENTS AT RISK SIGNS BEGAN appearing in upstate New York hospitals early this summer, warning that some of the doctors would take no new...

Failing to respond (July 1985)

Child abuse FAILING TO RESPOND AGENCIES ARE CAUGHT SHORT THE MEDIA have finally discovered child abuse, and particularly the sexual abuse of children. Sometimes it has seemed almost...

Poverty, 1965-1985 (June 1985)

POVERTY, 1965-1985 A CHALLENGE FOR THE BISHOPS BEAD THESE quotations from two reports dealing with poverty among children, and see if you can put dates on tbcra: (A) In our work-oriented...

Fairness gets a break (November 1984)

THE FAIRNESS FRONT NOVEMBER WAS NOT ARMAGEDDON A FI'~R WEEKS of dreading that election day might . bring a death blow to politicians (of both parties) bwith good records on the "fairness"...

Amateur hoar. (February 1984)

Task Force on Food Assistance AMATEUR HOUR THE REPORT WARMS UP LEFTOVERS I F THE ISSUE weren't so serious, itwould be tempting to treat the President's Task Force on Food Assistance as a bad...

The poor this Christmas: (December 1982)

The poor this Christmas NANCY AMIDEI EARLY IN NOVEMBER, with the election results in and tabulated, the pundits and political analysts tallied up the signs of change: voter turnout was high; old...

Critics' Christmas Choices (December 1981)

Books: CRITICS' CHRISTMAS CHOICES Alasdair Maclntyre ALASDAIR MacINTYRE is the author of After Virtue (University of Notre Dame Press). He teaches philosophy at Welles-ley College. THE second...

June 26: a day in the life of Congress: (July 1981)

NANCY AMIDEI O NCE UPON A TIME, tile founders of this country said: "In order to form a more perfect union.., we do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." They...

On not feeding the hungry (April 1981)

THE BUDGET BREAKS FAITH WITH THE POOR On not feeding the hungry NANCY AMIDEI IT HAS BEEN argued that last November conservatives won, not conservatism; that liberals lost, not liberalism. Someone...

AMMANN, MARY

Anda, Charles Taylor, William T. Cavanaugh, Vinson Cunningham, Neomi De

Anda, Neomi De

ANDERSEN, CAROL DELLMANN

Andersen, Robert

Anderson, Anita Tanner, Joan I Siegel, David Garrison, Jeanne

Anderson, Chris

Anderson, Donald C

Anderson, Donald C.

Anderson, Donald Louis

Anderson, Floyd

Anderson, Gary A.