In the News
July 2001

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

Tuesday, July 31
Congress tries to tie research to cloning

Oklahoma governor reconsiders death penalty

Make globalization user-friendly is Catholic plea

Antidrug message for suburban buyers

The Texas two-step

Monday, July 30
White House plan to teach children to read

The vanishing girls of India

Vieques voters want the navy to leave now

Urban police jobs are losing their appeal

City homeownership plans lift neighborhoods, study says

Friday, July 27
Public school tries out military-style discipline

Lawmakers begin effort to get U.S. to fight global warming

U.S. warns it may skip conference on racism

Catholic leaders ask Congress to reduce the number of uninsured

Nuns address violence in U.S.

Thursday, July 26
'Amnesty' may trigger border rush

G.O.P. postponing House vote on patients' rights

Death in the ashes

Sojourners shapes religion/politics debate

Illinois law to help victims of rape get advice

Wednesday, July 25

Key to patients' bill: Will suits clog courts?

Has Florida's justice for juveniles gone too far?

States adjust adult prisons to needs of youth inmates

House judiciary panel passes a no-clone bill

Court grants execution stay to weigh DNA testing

Tuesday, July 24
Bush under pressure over stem cells

Women are real leaders in pro-life movement

Acting with conviction

Minorities suspicious of gene study project

GOP still lacks votes on patients' rights

U.S. left out of warming treaty

Monday, July 23
Giving tax rebate to charity

States steer religious charities toward aid

Argument escalates on executing retarded

Religious leaders demand (and get) help for working families

Building a nonviolent army

Pope warns Bush of 'evils' of stem-cell research

Friday, July 20
Aid flows to illegal immigrants

Bush: Stem-cell issue goes beyond politics

House OKs religious charities plan

Life for U.S. children gets better

Black and Jewish teenagers come together

Thursday, July 19
Religious charities bill on track

Web-savvy youth protect peers

Bush urges shift to direct grants for poor nations

Less costly views of climate pact

In U.S. unions, Mexico finds unlikely ally on immigration

Wednesday, July 18
Bush says free market is the way to develop world

New bondage: Priest says Third World debt is moral issue

Students speak up for working poor

US schools slip back toward segregation

Stem cell debate in House has two faces, both young

Tuesday, July 17
A rural Cambodian village learns to go online

Education plan comes under fire by New York officials

Like Clinton, Bush waives Cuba sanction

Fox seeks to loosen border

The patients' rights disaster that wasn't

Monday, July 16
Global-warming treaty: last gasp?

When childcare is more expensive than college

Bush, after gaining tax cut, now takes aim at tax code

Debt to society: The real price of prisons

Hispanic figures up; economic parity not

Friday, July 13
CHA pleased Bush proposes Medicare reform framework

Politics complicate stem cell issue

California bishops' report proposes prison reforms

Campaign finance measure shelved after fight on rules

Pentagon sets ambitious tests of missile defense

Thursday, July 12
Kenyan president urges no sex for two years

Made-to-order stem cells spark ethics debate

Girls see school in a new light, and they shine

Bush moves to reduce drug costs for seniors

Bush tilts to friendlier tone on immigrants

Wednesday, July 11
Virginia lab harvests human stem cells

Coalition wants marriage amendment

NIH told adult stem cells better than embryos for research

Pig trouble in little Elwood

Cultural traditions affect care for elders

Tuesday, July 10
House passage of campaign finance bill seems in doubt

Bush seems to ease his stance on schools' accountability

For prisoners, it's a nearly no-parole world

City kids see new places—and possibilities

Coalition condemns banning of Rev. James Lawson

Monday, July 9
In building a charter school, the hard job is getting it built

Pope denounces U.S. embargo on Cuba

Campaign finance and patients' rights move to the House

Company knew spray had asbestos, documents show

Officials loath to act as farmers divert water meant for endangered fish

Friday, July 6
Chicago tries to be green-power leader

Decide where your tax dollars go

Group home for the disabled goes where work is

Clone study casts doubt on stem cells

HUD reviews a housing aid program for abuses

Thursday, July 5
Guiding hands for kids with parents behind bars

Religious scholars: Conserve energy

Bush aides seek compromise on embryonic cell research

More cities switch from foe to friend of day laborers

Lack of lawyers blocking appeals in capital cases

Tuesday, July 3
Migrant pickers roil watermelon capital

US government may fund embryonic stem cell research

Poll finds support for legal abortion slipping

Immigrants frustrated by laws that take kids from home

Monday, July 2
New sanctions proposal not much help to Iraqis

Behind the label 'made in China'

In Bronx, an antipoverty empire tries to shed a power-broker past

Battle over patients' rights moves to House

Whatever happened to military restructuring?

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