Rochester It was a hot, hot day in Rochester as we all sat in the parking lot where 17,000 graduates, family, and friends at the graduation ceremony for the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). We were there in full force because our son was graduating with a degree in criminal justice. We caught former …
Month: May 2007
RALs Day
Newark Jordan Ash, director of the ACORN Financial Justice Center, and I joke about a day last fall in Orange County, called “Sup-Prime Day,” when we hit 3-4 sub-prime companies all over the county in one gasp. Today was “RALs Day” in New Jersey. In the same way, we (Jordan, me, and Pedro Rivas, …
Technology Trumping education in Enequality
New Orleans I read a piece recently in the Times by Tyler Cowen, a professor of economics at George Mason University. The headline, about inequality and education, caught my eye. I thought it would be the usual, tired saw that starts and ends at the proposition: more education means less inequality. This, however, was …