… The first CPPD payments were made in 1970 and caseloads grew consistently until the mid-1990s due to the increase in eligible applicants and general awareness of the benefits (Torjman 2002). The history of CPPD can be summed up by a series of legislative changes as the government struggled with the task of adhering to the principles of ensuring income security for disabled …

… (the sum of the unemployment rate and the inflation rate) had reached an all-time high of 21.98 percent.
With the marrying of right-wing Christian fundamentalists and the Republican Party of US politics during the 1960’s and 70’s, the 1980s allowed for the mobilization of mass amounts of capital, under the form of MNCs, and the promotion of a religious tone in American Republican …

… FTSE, an independent company that provides independent market information says, “Our sole business is the creation and management of indices and associated data services, on an international scale” (FTSE website, 2006). Unfortunately, the results of those findings are no longer made publicly available. In 1995, the company created FTSE4Good, as a means to of indicating to the public …

… and Matthew Lymburner for their comments on earlier drafts.

… is not the inevitable collapse of capitalism, as there will be no inevitable demise written into the code of capitalism.  If we wish to proceed beyond the capitalist system, we will have to imagine alternatives and work toward them.

… of workfare and welfare.
What makes this rhetoric and these policy changes more than just temporary, is the unity around the notion that the Post-Fordist regime of capital accumulation is in crisis. Even capitalists such as Klaus Schwab are increasingly worried about the future, arguing that “we need to devise a way to address the social impact of globalization, which is …

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Although it has been met with stiff resistance in its efforts to offer banking services in the US, Wal-Mart has succeeded in opening a bank in Mexico . It plans to open 80 more by the end of 2008. Located within their stores, the banks are targetted at low-income earning households. Their early success, plus their increased lobbying spending , point to renewed efforts at entering the …

… link above put it all in perspective for me.

… that then require new explanations.

Comment by Cultural Shifts: … We don’t get to pick the universe …

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… we can never know it because our understanding of it will always be mediated by our surroundings.

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