New Orleans If you thought you had learned enough about the book, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means so Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan, a Harvard economist, and Eldar Shafir, a Princeton psychologist, and the impact their work should have on public policy for the poor and the rest of us, you’re wrong, because here comes …
Month: January 2014
How Scarcity Affects the Poor
New Orleans As Congress gets ready to come back to work, there are top-of-the-list items involving lower income families, including extension of unemployment benefits, protecting food stamp appropriations, and of course the ongoing fight for enrollment in Obamacare. Once again the nasty subtext in the debate will continue to be the ongoing theme that the …
Technology versus the Poor
New Orleans With herculean efforts along with extensive field work and mega expenditures of dollars and political capital, www.healthcare.gov works better now to the degree that about 2 million people weathered the storm to sign up under the new Affordable Care Act with millions more expected hopefully before March 31st. I use the words “works better” …