Salt of the Earth: In the News

In the News
June 2001

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

Friday, June 29
Faith-based funding clears panel

Catholic Charities calls for improvements to federal food stamp

Churches respond to domestic violence

Court strikes down indefinite jailing of would-be immigrants

Bush faces defeat on patients' rights

Thursday, June 28
White House mulls stem cell issues

Long-term concerns for parents of disabled children

U.N. redefines AIDS as issue of rights and peril to poor

Changes open door for bill on charities of churches

Charity is new force in environmental fight

Wednesday, June 27
Public backs stem cell research

Few recruits for the 'armies of compassion'

Patients' rights pick up momentum in 2 Senate votes

World Court hits U.S. on execution of Germans

A pandemic fueled by poverty

Tuesday, June 26
Giving aid to torturers

Link to the law puts spark in the school day

Missile defense may never fly

Bush to adjust 'faith-based' bill

Justices permit immigrants to challenge deportations

Monday, June 25
Lott: Stem cell research promising

UN AIDS conference draws thousands to New York

Teachers changing the world, one kid at a time

As welfare deadline looms, answers don't seem so easy

Charges of racism cloud immigration arguments

Friday, June 22
World congress against death penalty opens

Bush leans against support for stem-cell research, aides say

Films take on human rights

E.P.A. to issue air rules to protect park vistas

The 'abortion pill': Not stocked here

Thursday, June 21
Bush administration won't endorse cloning bill

Support for refugee programs seen declining

Victims' families seek alternatives to death penalty

Rural West Virginia winning over heath care workers

Bishops and 16 senators differ on poultry pay

Wednesday, June 20
Peace Corps recruits older volunteers

Industries clash in a lobbying war on patients' rights

An unlikely protest at a Starbucks

An alternative to the G-8 summit protests

Birth control benefit could be a bitter pill for employers

Tuesday, June 19
Pope says medicine, morality clashing

U.S. executes Mexican American drug kingpin

Bishops tackle liturgy, global warming, Mideast at spring meeting

Several G.O.P. senators back money for stem cell research

Homeless men find the fathers within

Monday, June 18
Haze hangs over US summer

Death penalty falls from favor as some lose confidence in its fairness

Man's gift creates a future

Urban renewal takes toll on ethnic neighborhood

Chicagoans tap tuition tax credits

Friday, June 15
The energy wake-up call

Fewer signs of support for genetically altered crops

Senate approves legislation to penalize failing schools

Alabama governor offers plan to ease crowding in the jails

Thursday, June 14
Violent crime plummets

Senate votes to pull funds from schools that ban Scouts

New shelter seeks to place asylum-seeking families in more hospitable surroundings

Wednesday, June 13
More children going straight from playpen to front lines

Immigrant healthcare: Must states cover cost?

Senate rejects voucher proposal

Letter campaigns get new spin

Nuclear dump foes hopeful

Tuesday, June 12
Pursuing a medical career, all the way to Cuba

Stem cell research divides administration

Bush stands by objections to warming treaty

Knight Foundation grants focus on Florida inner-city areas

Do charter schools pass the test?

Monday, June 11
The moral compass on campus

A disillusioned Catholic Worker stays on

For survivors, execution isn't the end

Where urban sprawl has some backers

Teens old enough to change the world

Friday, June 8
From divorced fathers, a plea for time with kids

The new frontier: The border with Mexico

Agent Orange still attacking Vietnam

Tax bill is signed, but it can't shake off critics

Thursday, June 7
Helping young blacks become "family" men

Religious activism has many voices

U.S. study rebuts death penalty bias

Bush signs tax cut into law

Scientists' report finds global warming worsening

Wednesday, June 6
Families of murder victims meet

Helping-hand groups feel financial pinch

First graduates at a New York haven for girls

Putting a dollar value on wrongful jail time

A young migrant's journey

Tuesday, June 5
Middle-class families feel squeezed out of education system

High-schoolers get taste of ethics debates

Justices reverse death sentence of retarded man

DiIulio frustrated over faith-based bill negotiations

Biblical archaeology and tax cuts

Monday, June 4
'Poverty USA' still a state where too many live, too few care

Group seeks moratorium on federal executions

Pope urges end to scandal of child-soldiers

Calls for slavery restitution getting louder

Champions of Portland tent city seek new site

Friday, June 1
Msgr. Jack Egan: activist, reformer, a 'city’s conscience'

U.S. urged to re-examine border policy

Texas retooling criminal justice in wake of furor on death penalty

Bush shifts his stand on peacekeeping

Charitable tax promises unkept

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