Author: Betsy L Angert

All the talk of Catastrophe Funds seems silly to me; the reasoning is apt.  I think there are better sources for these subsidies than the government. In my mind, our efforts are misplaced.   It is true; we as a nation...

When discussing immigration it seems that what we in America know is what we ignore.  We know we want higher wages.  Americans strongly support increasing the income of native-born and naturalized workers....

In July 2003, there was no investigation.  Republicans postured this was not an issue of national importance.  Journalist and bloggist David Corn of The Nation postulated it just might be.  This essayist compared...

Recently, an article appeared in my world.  The title, “Center seeks justice for Katrina’s migrant workers.”  This informative essay was published in a periodical I regularly receive, The Southern...

[Photograph By Andy Manis of Associated Press] I was not born there; however, I am proud to declare, I was raised there.  I moved away decades ago; yet, my heart remains in Wisconsin.  I marched in my first protest...