New Orleans Keisha Monk made the front page of the New York Times. I doubt if this was on her top ten list of life’s hopes and dreams. She lives, or at least lived until recently, in the Trent Court public housing project in New Bern, North Carolina, which turned out to be in the …
Month: September 2018
Fake-Work Ideology Will Kill People in Arkansas and Elsewhere
New Orleans Study after study details the fact that with 45 million Americans employed in low-paying service sector jobs paying usually minimal wages for often part-time hours in a period of almost record low unemployment hovering around 4%, work in this age of excruciating inequality is simply not enough to get a family out of …
Don’t Have Your Vote Purged – Check Now On-Line!
New Orleans This isn’t news: the midterm elections are around the corner. It’s crazy time! Anyone who is not worrying about whether or not their vote is going to be counted or purged for some unknown and scurrilous reason is just not paying attention. If you live in a red state, as I certainly do, …