Economics Also on Maplight, Follow your Favorite Initiative And one more: to follow the money behind California’s upcoming initiatives, go here: votersedge.org/california. (Another Maplight site.) Right… Maria Streshinsky
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Social Justice Letter from the Editor IF A BATTERED ECONOMY AND CEASELESS WAR ARE THE STORIES OF THE DECADE, the stress they have produced… Maria Streshinsky
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Social Justice Thought Matters Inside this first issue of Pacific Standard are stories about important developments in China, rural Ohio, Wall Street,… Maria Streshinsky
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Economics Announcing Our New Name Miller-McCune is renaming, and relaunching under the new moniker: "Pacific Standard." Maria Streshinsky
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