New Orleans Lucky thing I don’t have the big head, or I would think the folks running the editorial pages for the Times were reading my blogs. How could it be coincidence that today, just as an example, one editorial quotes me almost exactly, and Paul Krugman, the columnist and Nobel Prize winner in economics, …
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Terrible Idea of the Day: Evict Public Housing Tenants!
New Orleans Almost everyone else in America knows that we have a national affordable housing crisis. Maybe someone in Washington could take a minute out of their day pop by or send an email to Dr. Ben Carson, the head of Trump’s Housing and Urban Development (HUD) operation responsible for housing and give him a …
Inequality Breeds Epidemics and Can Kill More than Just the Poor
New Orleans Spoiler alert. There is not a happy ending to this story without wide scale change in inequality. Turns out that not only is the wealth and income gap destroying our democracy and much of the social fabric of our lives and communities, but it is also breeding infectious diseases that leap past the …