Why is it so Hard for Policy Makers to Separate Access from Affordability?

ACORN ACORN International Canada Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Ideas and Issues Remittances

New Orleans    Life, work, and the world are full of mysteries, but after years of hitting my head against various walls, I’m finally connecting the dots in trying to understand the peculiar responses we sometimes get in trying to change public policies and private pricing strategies. Remittances are a prime example. Talking last week to …

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Are “Gifted” Classes a Discriminatory Gift Themselves?

Education Ideas and Issues

New Orleans   The financial crisis gripping the state government of Louisiana due to the oil pricing collapse and the ideological bondage of former Governor Bobby Jindal to the worst of Republican “no tax/ small government” philosophy, has forced an interesting conflict over the funding of special gifted programs in New Orleans schools. The few lucky …

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