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Monthly Archives: December 2013
Will Americans Pay For American-Made?
BY FROMA HARROP Wow, this T-shirt costs only $8. Great color. Problem is, your finger could punch a hole through it. In most Americans’ shopping experience, colors change and styles come and go, but there’s one constant: low quality and a sweatshop-country label. Lot’s been said lately about a flickering comeback in American apparel manufacturing. […]
Twain’s Prescience
BY DAVID PERRYMAN
West of Tuttletown, CA, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains between Yosemite National Park and the San Joaquin Valley, my wife and I...
Who’s The Economy For?
BY SHARON MARTIN
Trickle down or tinkle on, the idea that rich people getting richer is good for all of us has been debunked. It...