Waveland The window opened on the Affordable Care Act for changes in policies and closed again after a short month. The reports from CMS indicate that some 9 million or so either renewed by their own volition or automatically rolled over their renewal with their existing carriers in mid-December. This is good news, but there …
Month: December 2014
Mamas, Don’t Let Your Organizers Grow Up to be Developers
Waveland The activist and academically oriented quarterly journal, Social Policy, trades out subscriptions with a publication called Shelterforce, which, as the name indicates, specializes in housing related issues. A random email called “rooflines” that I get from time to time featured their best articles of the year. Scrolling through, one piece caught my eye because …
Learning from “Factory Man”
Waveland All year I kept reading that this book with the long, drawn out title, Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local – and Helped Save an American Town by Beth Macy was a “must read.” From the descriptions, it sounded a bit like an anti-globalization, “there’s something out there that might …