New Orleans In 2016 after an exhaustive research project on all of the rural electric cooperatives in the twelve Southern states ACORN and the Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center published two reports on our website, as well as in two issues of Social Policy. One looked at the lack of diversity and absence …
Month: September 2018
Has Maryland Gone from Bad to Best in Lead Poisoning Prevention?
New Orleans Almost everyone knows the terribly destructive impact even the least exposure to lead can have in destroying the future of children, yet we still regularly hear about such tragedies even after all of these decades of recognized danger. In recent years, Local 100 United Labor Union members who were workers at the …
The Ugly Face of Entitlement and Hyper-Partisanship
Little Rock I don’t read the crime reports. I have to stop my family from telling me about horrors inflicted on women and children as they read the paper with shock. I have trouble watching gratuitous violence on television. Sometimes I feel like an Octavia Butler character suffering from acute and painful empathy. I know …