Faith And The City e.Newsletter

July 17, 2006
Volume 5, Issue 7

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• Social Environment
• Economic Disparity
• Physical Environment

Social Environment

In search of a new New Deal:
How will the good jobs of the future be created?
By E. J. Dionne Jr.
The Washington Post
June 13, 2006
There is no sturdier liberal or Democratic slogan than "Jobs, jobs, jobs." But liberals have a problem: The old capitalist job-production machine is not working the way it used to. The venerable promise that new (progressive) leadership will create masses of well-paying jobs is harder to make and even harder to keep. In principle this is a larger problem for conservatives, whose main economic program involves reinforcing the status quo by giving tax cuts to rich people so they have more money to invest.
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Long overdue: A fresh look at public attitudes about libraries in the 21st century
Public Agenda Alert
June 13, 2006
Americans prize public library service and see libraries as potential solutions to many communities' most pressing problems, from universal access to computers to the need for better options for keeping teens safe and productive. But few Americans are aware of the increasingly tenuous financial picture faced by many libraries.
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AP: Police got phone data from brokers
By Ted Bridis and John Solomon
Associated Press
June 20, 2006
US Government spies on citizens using third parties and can legally use all evidence against citizens even when evidence is collected illegally. Of course these are most likely the same data brokers that the FBI complained that could out their under cover agents by looking up their cell phone records.
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Why white people are afraid
By Robert Jensen
AlterNet
June 7, 2006
It may seem self-indulgent to talk about the fears of white people in a white-supremacist society. After all, what do white people really have to be afraid of in a world structured on white privilege? It may be self-indulgent, but it's critical to understand because these fears are part of what keeps many white people from confronting ourselves and the system.
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Who is a Hindu? What is Hinduism?
By Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami
Hinduism Today
January/February/March 2006
The first part of the answer to "Who is a Hindu?" and "What is Hinduism?" is that Hinduism is the Sanatana Dharma, or "eternal religion." It is the innate, perennial philosophy. Hinduism does not have a founder. It has neither a beginning nor an end. It is coexistent with man himself.
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Economic Disparity  

Minimum wage: Lowest in 50 years
By Progress Report
June 22, 2006
The buying power of the federal minimum wage is currently at its lowest level in 51 years. Eighty-three percent of Americans favor an increase in the minimum wage (nearly half "strongly support" it). Yet, the House conservative leadership hasn't allowed a full floor vote on the minimum wage since the last increase went into effect, in 1997.
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Physical Environment

Atlanta's strange formula:
23 lanes of "congestion mitigation"
By Neal Peirce
Washington Post
July 2, 2006
For Exhibit A of the perils, check what's happening in fast-growing Atlanta. First, there's the sheer immensity of what the Georgia Department of Transportation favors. Top example: widening of I-75 in fast-growing suburban Cobb County, as it heads into the city, to include an incredible mile-long section of no less than 23 lanes.
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Events

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Oct. 8-10: “Faith, politics, and policy.” Fall Conference, Candler School of Theology, Emory University.
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