New Orleans Imposing work requirements to punish the poor seems to be spreading like a virus around the country. It’s an ugly, mean spirited kind of thing, but a closer look at the way state politicians are trying to carve out exemptions to these requirements reveals even more about the self-serving blindness behind the exemptions …
Month: May 2018
Bringing Our People to the Graduation Line – Go Pounce!
New Orleans What is “pounce?” I actually know, because I’ve spent time over a bunch of years in the downtown campus of Georgia State University. This blue panther head seems to be everywhere around the sprawling and expanding downtown campus. Walking from the parking lots up and down the hills in Atlanta near the capitol …
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish, but Punitive to the Poor and All People
http://www.kabf.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Wades%20World%20%20051118.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans I happened to be sitting next to Washington University professor Mark Rank on a post-Katrina panel at Tulane University a decade or so ago. In the intervening years Rank’s research into the real costs of poverty have become the benchmarks for assessment that the …