New Orleans For many of the blamers and “bootstrappers” who like to lay the growing income and inequality divide on the poor themselves rather than federal and state tax and budget policy, the solution is invariably, “why don’t they go to school.” The answer is increasingly that crippled public schools are leaving lower income students unprepared …
Month: January 2013
The Cable Monopoly is Hurting Us All, Especially the Poor!
New Orleans Finally after toadying up to Comcast in the business pages this week, the New York Times allowed Susan Crawford from Cardozo School of Law to talk truth to power about how the cable companies and, most importantly, their monopolies are hurting the entire US economy and educational advancement while certainly innovation, caging the …
Mortgage Brokers Wrest Free of Real Regulatory Reform
New Orleans On the eve of the subprime meltdown in 2007 in Orange County, I met with a co-founder and the new CEO, general counsel, and some of the board members of the high flying mortgage player, New Century, along with several ACORN leaders from California, and ACORN’s national housing directors. We listened to crazy …