New Orleans Reading an article in The New Yorker called “A Bug in the System” by Wil S. Hylton got me thinking over the last couple of days. Early in the piece the reporter presented some arresting figures: “Each year, contaminated food sickens forty-eight million Americans, of whom a hundred and twenty-eight thousand are hospitalized, …
Month: February 2015
“Heartless” Heartland and Its Modern Debtor Prison
New Orleans The fight to guarantee accountability of nonprofit, tax exempt hospitals to their responsibilities to “do no harm” and operate for charitable purposes may have a new rule from the Treasury Department and the IRS requiring such care, but it seems we also have a “wanted” poster for one of the bad guys in …
Plenty of Good Proposals for Replacing Payday Lending
New Orleans Enough of the negative, let’s go positive and not just talk today about how predatory payday lenders are and how they are ripping off lower income families and trapping them in a vicious spiral of debt, but instead look at the ideas and institutions that are doing something different. Let’s start with Senator …