Layoffs, Furloughs and Union Concessions: The Prolonged and Painful Process of Balancing City Budgets

Summarizes the budget actions Philadelphia and twelve other large cities took between May and September 2009 in order to balance their fiscal year 2010 budgets, including tax increases and political brinksmanship in negotiating with unions

Not Out of the Woods: The Recession's Continuing Impact on Big City Taxes, Services and Pensions

Presents key findings on the continuing impact of the recession on city budgets, including budget gaps, increases in local taxes and fees, cuts in services, and declining funding ratios of pension funds, in Philadelphia and twelve major cities

Tough Decisions and Limited Options: How Philadelphia and Other Cities Are Balancing Budgets in a Time of Recession

Compares the budget gaps, the budget cuts, and proposed tax increases brought on by the economic downturn in twelve cities nationwide with those of Philadelphia. Examines workforce reductions, cuts in services, and income and property tax and fee hikes

Spartan Daily, January 6, 1947

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Spartan Daily, January 6, 1947

Volume 35, Issue 54https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/spartandaily/8931/thumbnail.jp

Spartan Daily, January 6, 1947

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The Reinforcement of Hegemonic Masculinity Through Gender Frames During the 2016 Election

Gender and its perception by the media played a big role in the election of 2016. The media simplifies the roles of women candidates and redistributes information to the public using gender frames. Though framing based on gender had varying effects on the election, it is still prominent among the media and usually negatively affects women in the public sphere

Spartan Daily, January 6, 1947

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Mothers’ Rights are Human Rights: Reflections on Activism and History

In popular discourse today, mothers are often set in opposition to political and evenhuman rights. Conservatives see women’s “right to choose” as an assault on the fetus’s human rights. Feminists, recalling the equality vs. difference debate, stress the incompatibilityof organizing for mothers’ rights and advancing women’s rights more broadly. Advocates of “mothers’ rights,” at least in the U.S. and Canada, usually focuson issues—such as breastfeeding, child custody, and worklife balance—associated more with the quality of life for the middle class than with conventional human rights.This article argues for a new political discourse calling for mothers’ human rights. It first reflects on two pivotal moments when the debate over mothers’ rights and entitlements entered the mainstream: the call for motherhood endowment around 1920, and the demand for welfare rights fifty years later. Since the failure of those movements, the circumstances facing U.S. mothers today has become so dire that we cannot afford not to talk about mothers’ human rights