New Orleans President Obama has asked for $4 billion to secure the border, speed up deportation hearings, and house some of the more than 50,000 children that have crossed the border from Mexico to the United States having survived a journey on “The Beast,” as the train from Central America is called. The Republicans are …
Month: July 2014
How Can We Get the “Rip Us Off Now” Sign Off Our Back?
New Orleans I just have to wonder why when we are in a period of historic wealth and income concentration at the top, there are so many outfits trying to rip off low-and-moderate income families at the bottom? The hustles keep rolling down on our people like an avalanche. The Student Debt Project issued a …
Internet Enabled Neighborhood Discrimination?
New Orleans This is our question for the day. Are people using the supposedly “neutral” tool of the internet to get around fair housing laws that prevent housing discrimination? An intriguing piece in the New York Times raises this issue in looking at the data explosion that gives exceptionally specific data on individual communities that therefore …