New Orleans New York City announced that it was ending its experimental program called Opportunity NYC Family Rewards that had offered cash incentives for achieving modified behavior from poor families. From the article it seems that the failure of the City of New York to modify its behavior was the real story here, rather than …
Author: wade
The Future Question on ACORN’s Demise
New Orleans In the host of commentary on the announcement by ACORN’s national management that the organization is closing its doors tomorrow, there have been two voices that have stood out particularly in my mind, because they ask the critical question about the future for the low and moderate income members and constituency that was …
Health Care Wars Ongoing
New Orleans Perhaps the number three rule of politics, right after “everything begins with a base” and “money rules,” is that the “devil is in the details.” Now that Congress has voted and the President has signed, we need to get off of the arguments about how few slices of the half-a-loaf we got, and …