New Orleans Talking recently about greater accountability for nonprofit hospitals with a health expert from Massachusetts, she kept bringing up PILOT programs and why they were important in funding health care expansion in her state. PILOT in the tax world stands for “payments in lieu of taxes.” It perked my interest to find out how …
Month: June 2018
Pay Higher Rent and Get Out of Poverty Quicker
New Orleans At first this idea may sound really, really stupid. Ben Carson, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) responsible for financing the public housing and housing subsidy vouchers across the country has announced a plan in his words, “to give poor people a way out of poverty.” His plan to achieve this …
Academics Find that Partisanship Has Become the Great Divider
New Orleans Families everywhere in America get together for Thanksgiving. They travel. They honor tradition and renew bonds. They cook and bake. They eat too much. They try to talk about how children have grown and how with each advancing year they miraculously haven’t aged a day. They avoid talking about politics at the table. …