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-15 posts tagged "economy"
Billy McMahon | Tuesday, September 30, 2014
It’s not that uncommon. It might be outside a factory or an office or a store. You might be a customer or another employee. You will have to know what to do — so never cross a picket line. It is the strongest action workers can take in an economy that is otherwise stacked against
Jack Rooney | Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Former Pennsylvania senator and 2012 Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum spoke to a capacity crowd in the Carey Auditorium of the Hesburgh Library on Wednesday afternoon, and said Republicans must refocus their efforts and political strategy on strengthening the American family. Santorum, who was also promoting his book, “Blue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America
Alaina Anderson | Sunday, April 27, 2014
Thursday, the Saint Mary’s Center for Spirituality presented the 29th Madeleva Lecture. Christine Firer Hinze spoke at the lecture, titled “Glass Ceilings and Dirt Floors: Women, Work, Catholic Social Teaching and the Global Economy.” Elizabeth Groppe, director of the Center for Spirituality, said that Hinze is a theology professor and director of the Francis and
Sarah Morris | Friday, April 25, 2014
Over the past few years, the increasing wealth disparity in the United States has gained the attention of academics, journalists and politicians. Just yesterday, The New York Times published an extensive story declaring, “The American Middle Class is No Longer the World’s Richest,” accompanied by a swath of alarming new data that shows substantial lags
Robert Alvarez | Tuesday, January 14, 2014
Not many people see the study of economics as having very dire moral implications. It likes to market itself as a science, like any other science, which merely describes reality, whereas if it had moral implications it would have to make judgements upon the value of different kinds of possible realities. However, this type of