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Education is Not Reducing Poverty

New Orleans Anytime there’s an article with a headline that claims there is “hope for the world’s poorest” and the author is someone as sturdy as New York Times columnist David Leonhardt, my fingers are crossed and my eyes are flying.   In this case he was touting a new book and argument by a British [...]

Continuing Development Wars

  Austin        Austin still has the feel of a city on the bright side of the recession.  Unemployment has hardly hit 6%.   The airport is new and busy.  Developers are still trying to build and finish projects, and community fights against them are real and important.      I caught up with the fight to [...]

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