Triana We started the day in the port city of Durres where we composed a panel talking about community organizing to a group of sixty, mostly young women, hoping to become teachers in the education curriculum of the University of Alexander Moisiu Durres, named after one of the great European stage actors of the …
Month: February 2019
Welcome to Albania
Tirana Leaving Frankfurt was easy and painless even in the early dark rush hour. My kind host accompanied me all the way until I had my ticket in hand at the counter in the giant airport. It may not have been necessary, but it was nice to simply be a sheep in the herd on …
Minimum Wages, EITC, and Prison Recidivism
Frankfurt Professor Fred Brooks of Georgia State University shared with me a dense academic paper by Amanda Agan and Michael Makowsky, economics professors at the universities of Rutgers and Clemson respectively. The title of the paper was “Minimum Wage, EITC, and Criminal Recidivism,” which is not normally the kind of thing that comes into your …