Baltimore The community organizing class at the University of Maryland School of Social Work had gone chapter by chapter through Citizen Wealth, so their questions were specific and pointed as they seized on themes that meant something to them or tried to put their arms around issues that often slip all of our grasp. [...]
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Los Angeles After a week in California from Benicia to San Francisco to Oakland and finally Los Angeles, I found myself scratching my head as I headed home about what I was learning from people’s comments and questions about the continued attack on citizen wealth in America. In Oakland Alfredo Avila with the Applied Research Center [...] Baltimore A compromise of sorts seems to have been reached in Massachusetts to provide some form of health coverage for the 31,000 LEGAL immigrants in the state that had been bounced off the rolls as a cost savings measure. The other victim of this cost cutting were the poor families whose automatic enrollment in the [...] New Orleans The poor became pawns as the big players in the Massachusetts stand-off over health care coverage continued to up the stakes in this struggle with the news that Massachusetts General Hospital sued the state complaining of tens of millions in unreimbursed care. They argued that Commonwealth Care – the state’s highly touted plan [...] New Orleans Funding problems in Massachusetts has led the state to announce that barring some deal or injection of funds, Commonwealth Care, the mandatory state health plan will stick it to two groups: legal immigrants and the poor who can be confused. There is already a righteous uproar about 35000 legal immigrants that are arbitrarily [...] |
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