New Orleans A lawsuit filed against the State of Louisiana by the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division may give another sad clue to the strategy of Republican governors seeking to block voting access to poorer citizens. The federal lawsuit flatly alleges that that state agencies responsible for administering welfare and disability benefits are [...]
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New Orleans When governments do not support full access to the programs that support citizen wealth, the entire community suffers and pays the price, not just the family. Michael Siemienas, speaking for SuperValu (owner of Save-A-Lot which is only a couple of blocks from my house) hit on this point in a Times’ piece saying [...] New Orleans Yesterday on the ACORN International website (www.acorninternational.org), we released the third of our investigative, research reports in connection with our Remittance Justice Campaign. The bottom line is that the amounts of informal transfers are huge and underestimated. They are wildly cheaper by many orders of magnitude (0.25% to 1.25% compared to World [...] New Orleans More than 14 million statistically unemployed adding up to a jobless rate of 9.2% cannot really be invisible, can they? How could they be invisible especially when the real numbers of unemployed who are now “discouraged” job seekers, workers in the informal economy, and “portfolio” workers balancing a list of tasks while [...] New Orleans There was a startling AP story by Michelle Conlin and Tamara Lush that thudded on my porch a couple of days ago that opened my eyes to another dimension of the foreclosure fiasco that continues to seep the country: the finances of homeowners’ associations. New Orleans Secretary Shaun Donovan and President Obama made yet another HUD announcement of another faux “program” to help foreclosure victims, which once again will not work and plays yet more patty cake with banks and their loan servicers. These charades have become something like a marker of seasons passing as we record yet [...] New Orleans This should be the least surprising news since you learned that sugar tastes good, but now there is actually statistical proof from a drug-trial-like study that when the poor have health insurance by damn their health improves! I’m not sure having hard proof will change any minds or votes among lawmakers but at [...] New Orleans This is a big deal. Dr. Sandro Galea, head of epidemiology at the prestigious Columbia University School of Public Health, and a team, published a paper calculating the deaths in the United States that derive directly from social factors. They looked at six specifics: low education, racial segregation, low social support, individual-level [...] |
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