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Wal-Mart Still Trying to Put Off Dukes

New Orleans Next year will be the 10th anniversary of the Dukes vs. Wal-Mart suit seeking to rectify the damage that comes from the company’s systematic discrimination against women workers.   The latest company dodge comes by way of an appeal to the U. S. Supreme Court of the 9th Circuit decision to create a million [...]

Bring Back 1st Time Tax Credit

New Orleans Shaun Donovan at HUD is clearly having problems getting his arms around the fact that America is not New York, the evidence starting with the horrible failure of the mortgage modification program or rather the lack of a mortgage modification program.  Now throwing more words at the housing crises this weekend in pronouncements [...]

Soft Case for Home Ownership: Forced Savings/Low Interest Rates

New Orleans        Dueling columns in the Times smashed the drunken or doped spin of the Realtors Association trying to claim that the housing market was “back” and in the “Your Money” section made a soft and shrugging case for home ownership:
“Indeed, many people who are buying at the moment are locking in mortgage rates [...]

Support for Taxing the Rich

New Orleans I won’t say it’s a sea change, but there are starting to be some encouraging signs of change among the elites and critical chattering classes on the issue of more equitable taxation, particularly the need for the rich to pay their fair share.

In a recent issue of the New Yorker, surely a [...]

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