Monthly Journalism Award
The Washington Monthly Journalism JULY/AUGUST 1997 JOEL DRESANG AND CROCKER STEPHENSON Work, or Else (Milwaukee) Journal Sentinel WisconsinS tough-love wefare programs have been the...
...As Fisher makes clear, and as the Monthly has been telling readers for years, the system set up to protect the consumer has simpIy placed the wrongdoing of corporations in competition with the abuses oflawyers...
...But Dresang and Stephenson add a new dimension to the personal stories of wefare recipients...
...But whatever the subject, careful thought and an insider...
...knowledge make for original, provoking columns...
...Most cases end in “roupon settlements,” from which lawyers offen walk away with 20 to 3Opercent of the settlement, while plain@ are stuckgoing back to the defendants to claim their measly rebate...
...MARC FISHER Class Actions’ Big Winners: The Lawyers The Washington Post Examining plaint@ lawyers’ relentless pursuit of consumer complaints, Fisher calk into question the notion of class action suits as a way to protect ”the little guy...
...Enumerating the often overlookedproblems that both clients and caseworkers face in the guest to move peoplefrom dependency to serf-suficiency, the authors demonstrate that a success$d wefare-toworkprogram has as much to do with how new policies are implemented as with the policies themselves...
...Tommy Thompson introduced “Wisconsin Workd’in 1995...
...BRENDAN BYRNE AND THOMAE KEAN The Kean-Byrne Dialogue The Newark Star-Ledger Lending support to the notion that experience outside ofjournalism makes for better journalists, former New Jersty governors Thomas Kean (R) and Brendan Byrne ( 0 ) have emerged as two of the tristate areaiJinest columnists...
...This monthi topic: how the state spend its casino redevelopmentjimd...
...The Washington Monthly Journalism JULY/AUGUST 1997 JOEL DRESANG AND CROCKER STEPHENSON Work, or Else (Milwaukee) Journal Sentinel WisconsinS tough-love wefare programs have been the subject of countless stories since Gov...
...In monthIy *conversations,”t he political adversaries and long-timejEends take on pressing issues with the unusualperqective of commentators with experience...
Vol. 29 • July 1997 • No. 7
