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4.28.04

Moving Ideas
Network, a project of The
American Prospect, presents
resources on the magazine's
Special Report on Bush's War on
the Middle Class.

Articles in The American
Prospect's Special
Report

Ronald Reagan's domestic program
was properly understood as a war on
the poor. But as this pacakge of
articles shows, George W. Bush's is
more like a war on the middle
class.

"http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=7625"
target="outlink" class=
"link">American Families at
Risk: An Overview

by Richard C. Leone

"http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=7635"
target="outlink" class=
"link">Middle Class and
Broke: Once, the
larger society shared the cost of
raising and educating the next
generation. These days, the
responsibilities are falling more
to individual families. It's
bringing parents to their
knees.

by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia
Warren Tyagi

• Additional Readings:
• "http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/5247850.htm"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Penn area revival lures
  many, pushes others out,
  2/24/2003, Philadelphia Inquirer
• "http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0709/p13s01-lecl.html"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Preschools are popping at
  the seams, 7/09/2002,
  Christian Science Monitor
• "http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NWEC&p_theme=nwec&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_field_label-0=Edition&s_dispstring=allfields(Building%20Blocks%20For%20Every%20Kid)%20AND%20date(all)&p_field_advanced-0=&p_text_advanced-0=(%22Building%20Blocks%20For%20Every%20Kid%22)&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&xcal_useweights=no"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Building Blocks For Every
  Kid, 2/12/2001, Newsweek
• "http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/books_swa2000_index2"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">The State of Working
  America, Economic Policy
  Institute *
• "/docs/index.php?DocID=74"
  target="outlink" class="link">Low
  Wages = Low Quality: Solving the
  Real Preschool Teacher
  Crisis, The National
  Institute for Early Education
  Research
• "http://www.clasp.org/DMS/Documents/1080577074.01/cc_myths.pdf"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Myths About the Adequacy
  of Current Child Care Funding
  (PDF), Center for Law and Social
  Policy *
• "http://www.clasp.org/DMS/Documents/1080576573.24/Snowe.pdf"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Five Reasons Why the
  Senate Should Adopt the
  Snowe-Dodd Amendment to Increase
  Child Care Funding (PDF),
  Center for Law and Social Policy
  *

"http://www.prospect.org/web/view-print.ww?id=7637"
target="outlink" class=
"link">Schools of Hard
Knocks: Education is the
ticket of entry to the middle
class. So why has Bush done so
little to establish social equity
and so much to impede social
mobility? Chalk it up to
"compassionate conservatism"

by Richard D. Kahlenberg

• Additional Readings:
  
• "http://nw08.american.edu/%7Ehertz/HERTZ%20Rags%20Riches%20and%20Race%20April%202003.pdf"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Rags, Riches and Race: The
  Intergenerational Economic
  Mobility of Black and White
  Families in the United States
  (PDF), Tom Hertz, Department of
  Economics, American University
• "http://www.movingideas.org/blitz/budget.html"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Budgeting for Disaster:
  Bush's Proposed 2005 Budget,
  Moving Ideas
• "http://edworkforce.house.gov/hearings/107th/fc/adreport71602/gladieux.htm"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Statement of Lawrence
  Gladieux to the Committee on
  Education and the Workforce,
  U.S. House of Representatives
• "http://www.brookings.edu/gs/brown/20031117schoolchoicereport.htm"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">School Choice: Doing It
  the Right Way Makes a
  Difference, Brookings
  Institute

• Reference:
• "http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Public Schools of North
  Carolina
• "http://www.ed.gov/nclb/landing.jhtml?src=pb"
  target="outlink" class="link">No
  Child Left Behind, US
  Deptartment of Education
• "http://www.ed.gov/about/bdscomm/list/acsfa/edlite-index.html"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Advisory Committee on
  Student Financial Assistance,
  US Deptartment of Education
• "http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income.html"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Income Surveys, US
  Census Bureau
• "http://www.movingideas.org/issuesindepth/education.html"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Educating America,
  Moving Ideas

Don't Mourn,
Mobilize: Middle-class
voters grasp that Bush is not
representing their interests. But
they don't act on that perception.
They might - but it's up to
Bemocrats to motivate them.

by Ruy Teixeira

• Additional Readings:
• "http://www.cbpp.org/1-20-04tax.htm"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">President's Savings
  Proposals Likely To Swell
  Long-Term Deficits, Reduce
  National Saving, And Primarily
  Benefit Those With Substantial
  Wealth, Center on Budget and
  Policy Priorities*
• "http://www.cbpp.org/1-22-04tax.htm"
  target="_new" class="link">The
  President's Proposal To Make Tax
  Cuts Permanent: $2.2 Trillion
  Cost Poses Danger To Economy In
  The Long Run, Center on
  Budget and Policy Priorities*
• "/activism/networks/taxcuts.html"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Slash and Burn Economics:
  Extending the Tax Cuts,
  Moving Ideas

• Reference:
• "http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac3/ContentServer?pagename=polls&startingRow=1&nextstep=chooseQuestion&interactive=n&searchPollId=0&pollType=National&questCategoryType=n&newsearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fac3%2FContentServer%3Fpagename%3Dpolls%26interactive%3Dn&questCategory=The+President&keyword=taxes&pollDateRange=12&rwstart=1&typeofpoll=National&newsearch=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonp"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Washington Post Tax
  polls
• "http://www.epinet.org/books/hardships.pdf"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Hardships in America: The
  Real Story of Working
  Families (PDF), Economic
  Policy Institute*
• "http://www.epinet.org/content.cfm/books_howmuch"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">How much is enough? Basic
  Family Budgets for Working
  Families, Economic Policy
  Institute*

Losing Ground:
Outsourcing jobs, harassing labor
unions, repealing safety
regulations, undercutting benefits:
The Bush administration is clearly
winning a great victory in its war
on America's workers.

by Jeff Faux

• Additional Readings:
• "http://www.epinet.org/issuebriefs/197/ib197.pdf"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Missing the Moving Target:
  Meager job growth and the poor
  track record of the
  administration's job
  forecasts (PDF), Economic
  Policy Institute *
• "http://www.epinet.org/Issuebriefs/ib194/ib194.pdf"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">The broad reach of
  long-term unemployment (PDF),
  Economic Policy Institute *
• "http://www.cbpp.org/2-18-04ui.htm"
  target="_new" class="link">White
  House Backs Off CEA Prediction Of
  "Average" Job Growth, Center
  on Budget and Policy Priorities *
• "http://www.epinet.org/issuebriefs/196/ib196.pdf"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Weak Recovery Claims New
  Victim: Workers' Wages (PDF),
  Jared Bernstein, Lawrence Mishel,
  Economic Policy Institute*
• "http://www.epinet.org/briefingpapers/148/bp148.pdf"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Measuring employment since
  the recovery : A comparison of
  the household and payroll
  surveys (PDF), Economic
  Policy Institute *

Throwing Away the
Rules: In its zeal to
kowtow to business, the Bush
administration is dismantiling a
century of regulations that protect
middle-class consumers from
financial fraud and health
hazards.

by Merrill Goozner

• Additional Readings:
• "/activism/networks/030917.html"
  class="link">Stop Corporate
  Control of the Media, Moving
  Ideas Network
• "http://www.ucsusa.org/global_environment/rsi/report.html"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Scientific Integrity in
  Policymaking: An Investigation
  into the Bush Administration's
  Misuse of Science, Union of
  Concerned Scientists

• Reference:
• "http://www.sarbanes-oxley.com/"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
  2002
• "http://www.who.int/hpr/gs_comments/sugar_research.pdf"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">World Sugar Research
  Organization, World Health
  Organization

The Great Tax
Shift: The president says
his cuts are simply a way of
"giving people their money back."
But the bill will come due one way
or another - and lower - and
middle-class households will foot
it.

by William G. Gale and Peter
R. Orszag

• Additional Readings:
• "http://www.cbpp.org/4-14-04tax-sum.htm"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Tax Returns: A
  Comprehensive Assessment of the
  Bush Administration's Record on
  Cutting Taxes, Center on
  Budget and Policy Priorities *
• "http://www.cbpp.org/1-22-04tax.htm"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">The President's Proposal
  To Make Tax Cuts Permanent: $2.2
  Trillion Cost Poses Danger To
  Economy In The Long Run,
  Center on Budget and Policy
  Priorities *

Future Retirees at
Risk: Bush's "ownership
society" would replace existing
social-insurance systems with
personal savings accounts. His
approach threatens to make old age
and poverty synonymous again.

by Alicia H. Munnell

• Additional Readings:
• "http://www.cbpp.org/3-22-04socsec.htm"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Understanding the Social
  Security and Medicare
  Projections, Center on Budget
  and Policy Priorities *
• "http://www.cbpp.org/3-22-04socsec-fact.htm"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Fact Sheet : Misleading
  Claims About New Social Security
  and Medicare Projections,
  Center on Budget and Policy
  Priorities *
• "http://www.cbpp.org/3-23-04socsec.htm"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">What The Trustees' Report
  Indicates About The Financial
  Status Of Social Security,
  Center on Budget and Policy
  Priorities *
  

class="text">Middle Class
Reference:

• "http://www.acorn.org/" target=
  "outlink">Center for Law and
  Social Policy *
• "http://www.cbpp.org/" target=
  "outlink">Center on Budget and
  Policy Priorities*
• target="outlink" class=
  "link">Brookings Institute
• target="outlink" class=
  "link">Economic Policy
  Institute *
• "http://www.ourfuture.org/"
  target="outlink" class=
  "link">Campaign for America's
  Future *

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