Month January 2008

Eating dirt cookies in Haiti

Food prices have risen so sharply in Haiti that the poor are eating cookies made dirt, salt, and vegetable shortening. Higher oil prices and demand for biofuels are forcing food prices higher. The price of the dirt cookies is rising…

Subprime and race

Doug Henwood’s Behind the News broadcast on 1/24/08 on WBAI covers the subprime debacle in depth. One illuminating discussion covered race and subprime. In the 80’s-90’s, areas were redlined for race to prevent them from getting mortgages. Then the opposite…