Dallas Figures released by the Federal Reserve indicate that citizen wealth by some indices is recovering almost to pre-recession levels. According to the Wall Street Journal: The net worth of U.S. households and nonprofit organizations—the values of homes, stocks and other assets minus debts and other liabilities—rose 2.6%, or about $1.9 trillion, in the third …
Month: December 2013
The Ups and Downs of Obamacare Recruitment
Houston Reading the papers about the efforts to enroll the uninsured in Obamacare, two directly contradictory themes emerge these days. First, it is clear that there is consensus that the website, www.healthcare.gov is working much, much better, even if not perfectly. Secondly, it also is clear that there continues to be wildly competing direction at …
Charitable Deduction Reforms
Houston Yesterday in talking with Brian Johns, the organizing director of Virginia Organizing on “Wade’s World” on KABF about his forthcoming article with Ellen Ryan for Social Policy called “Leadership Development is Not a Deliverable,” we were trying to follow the curiously circuitous paths of private philanthropy as it moves from grants supporting community organizing’s …