In the News
April 2001

Miss any news this month? Salt of the Earth collects social justice stories each week, Monday through Friday.

Monday, April 30
Philadelphia's mayor seeks to expand city's revival

Father G. looks to preserve rebuilt Bronx

Pope asks Bush to spare McVeigh

Illegal immigrants face deadline

Drawing new lines over rights of unborn

Friday, April 27
McVeigh called model prisoner

Warring over military on campus

Quebec bishops call environment, poverty interrelated issues

New York gun ruling to have national impact

Dissecting the ethics that must enhance globalization

Thursday, April 26
Activists, politicians court minorities

Virginia homeless shelter expands

The future path of soft money

Clergy hobnob in Washington on faith-based funding plan

Exclusion of gays costs Boy Scouts money

Wednesday, April 25
Victims passionately split on execution of McVeigh

NY county backs off day labor site

Harvard sit-in asks for a 'living wage'

Proposed field test of gene-altered cotton pest debated

Pain endures in nursing homes

Tuesday, April 24
Shipper looks to make Cuba delivery

Illegal workers causing tensions

Homeless shelter shows results

Case tests US asylum for foreign women

Gov. Gary Johnson crusades against drug war

Monday, April 23
Religion journal: Standing against the death penalty

New York child care house criticized by advocates

Pennsylvania fair on health targets inner city residents

Summit of the Americas leaders agree on trade pact

Rules for federal aid put some students in bind

Friday, April 20
Educator starts a place where children can give peace a chance

Bush walks fine line on ecology

Defensive drug industry fuels fight over patents

Victims' race affects decisions on killers' sentence, study finds

Affirmative action foes put programs for native Hawaiians on trial

Thursday, April 19
A city consumed in plans for McVeigh's execution

Cheap labor's hidden costs are injustice and harm

Texas halts vote on hate crimes legislation

Drug firms abandon court case

Did Pat Robertson just defend China’s one-child policy?

Wednesday, April 18
Fair trade coffee perking up life

Pat Robertson remarks on China abortions

As welfare clock runs out, lessons from Iowa

What the Bush budget does for children

US groups attack plan for Americas trade pact

Tuesday, April 17
For those divided by bars, less of a language barrier

High court halts execution in Virginia

Cities still losing whites, wealth

Bush does flip-flop on immigrant care

Minority-college grants may be tied to graduation

Monday, April 16
Battered Cincinnati looks for lessons

A spiritual approach to time behind bars

Energy task force works in secret

Follow the money

Spring breaks can lead to breakthroughs

Thursday, April 12
McVeigh execution telecast allowed

Promise and pitfalls in taking religion to prisons

Company says it can derive stem cells from the placenta

The parent trap: Women prisoners lose their children

Democrats threaten to filibuster plan on endangered species

Wednesday, April 11
100 New York homeless women face shelter eviction

Teaching the buddy system

Fat seen as promising source of stem cells

Report says youth violence overplayed

Higher minimum wage proposed in Florida county

Tuesday, April 10
On appeals, the poor find little leverage

Public likes government church support

Bush plans more prisons, fewer cops

Justice Ginsburg blasts death penalty, backs moratorium

Texas districts feel robbed by tax law

Monday, April 9
For New York City's poor, a lawyer with 1,600 clients

LA warms to unions as immigrants look to escape poverty

Squeeze play on mail delivery

California prepares for drug law change

With power price surges, California's a follower

Friday, April 6
U.S. urged to help end Sudan's war

McVeigh execution 'tests the mettle' of death penalty opposition

Texas nears creation of state public-defender system

Condors wing back to wild

Toughening up on kids who kill

Thursday, April 5
Catholic Charities hiring site vetoed

Death penalty moratorium faces full Maryland senate

Catholics urge Senate to use federal budget surplus to aid uninsured

Interfaith environment campaign extends to 18 states

Program insures low-income HIV-positive residents

Wednesday, April 4
Border bikers' club runs on passion for doing good

Maryland panel votes to halt executions

Burger King to improve animal treatment

Women still make less, survey says

Environmental reversals shake moderate Republicans

Tuesday, April 3
New York schools reject privatization

Bush's 'compassionate conservative' guru sees culture as culprit

Flap over laws to save abandoned babies

McCain-Feingold supporters ready for House battle

A debate on race, affluence and academic fairness in Texas

Monday, April 2
Medical fees are often higher for patients without insurance

Maine shows how dramatic campaign-finance reform alters politics

Adviser: Bush's faith-based plan poses no threat

County, church to lock horns on rural limits

Massachusetts city plans to destroy public housing

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