<HTML> June, Your work is extremely important - economic justice is vital to all. In your figures regarding unemployment, do you include disabled people (blind, deaf, etc) who are now on disability benefits but would like to have a job?  You may be interested to know that I cover this aspect of unemployment in my book, Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract. Here is an announcement for the book. Best, Marta Russell Common Courage Press announces: Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract by Marta Russell What people are saying about Beyond Ramps: Vividly written...goes to the heart of many matters, starting with the profound desire of "normal" people, many of them supposedly broad-minded types squarely within the liberal tradition, to reach for the sterilizing knife, or the medicine cabinet of Dr. Kevorkian when confronted with an affront to their sense of the"normal.  Marta Russell is a true radical. Alexander Cockburn, writer for the Nation and other publications Russell urges us to understand that "our" issues are not ours alone, but arise from the power structures that underpin our society. Laura Hershey, disability activist, New Mobility Magazine A hard-edged, in-your-face book that goes to war against market-based Social Darwinism. Russell combines rage and insight, a great feel for the particular, and a keen understanding of macro politics and historical detail. Eric Mann, director, Labor/Community Strategy Center The kind of analysis that virtually no one has done to the peril of everyone in this nation.  Mary Johnson, editor, Ragged Edge What Ralph Nader did for the consumer movement in his book Unsafe at Any Speed Marta Russell has accomplished in her riveting Beyond Ramps. No one, left, right or center, who reads this book . . .will come away unchanged.   This is a must read. Marcus Raskin, co-founder, Institute for Policy Studies, Professor of Public Policy, George Washington University A stinging critique of a capitalist economic system ... a significant contribution. Harlan Hahn, professor of political science, University of Southern California Russell has marshaled, with impressive lucidity, the salient truth... Ronnie Dugger, Alliance for Democracy Marta Russell exposes the neoliberal thrust to shrink governmnet with the Reinventing Government mantra. "We are dangerously close to a Jerry Lewis democracy where middlemen beggars and corporate CEOs getting huge paychecks may replace entitlements with charity," reveals Russell in a devastating analysis of the "reform" of the social safety net. Subjects include the Nazi Holocaust, eugenics, the industrialization of medicine, the "Right to Die", the commodification of disability, the ADA/civil rights, Continuing Disability Reviews, genetic and health insurance discrimination ... amongst others. Marta Russell is a writer/producer whose investigative reporting earned her a 1994 Golden Mike Award for best documentary from the Radio and Television News Association of Southern California. Common Courage Press: 1 800 497-3207 Please ask your local library and bookstores to put this book on their shelves!     June Zaccone wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>The Coalition's new web site has our welfare "reform" packet and policy statement, as well as monthly unemployment data adjusted to include categories of the unemployed the BLS measures but does not include in its press releases. It also has Helen Ginsburg's testimony to the NY City Council on social security, and our letter inviting participation in Jobs for All Season early this fall. (The quotations from our Advisory Board members will take a while, but there are  statements from Elaine Bernard, Robert Eisner, Manning Marable and a few others.) The address is <A HREF="http://www.njfac.org">http://www.njfac.org</A> June Zaccone, National Jobs for All Coalition, 475 Riverside Dr., Suite 832, NY, NY 10115</BLOCKQUOTE>  </HTML>