Community Organizing

Tax Credits for Poor Workers             St. Petersburg             Talking about citizen wealth yesterday (and, yes, I’m fixated on this subject, because it’s also the subject of my book coming out this June, called:  Citizen Wealth:  The Campaign to Save Working Families, it seems when Obama came courting to Washington on Monday, he also threw out …

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Don’t Blame Hispanic Homeowners

Ideas and Issues

Don’t Blame Hispanic Homeowners             New Orleans               There was an incredible and irresponsible article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday by Susan Schmidt and Maurice Tamman called “Housing Push for Hispanics Spawns Wave of Foreclosure” in which once again there is an effort to blame the folks at the bottom for the mistakes at …

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Financial Meltdown Coherence

Community Organizing Labor Organizing

Financial Meltdown Coherence             New Orleans               Jim Lynch, my old friend and colleague from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Ernie Dumas, former editorial page editor for the Arkansas Gazette a million years ago, were early Saturday morning correspondents as they shared a story from The Weekly Standard on moral hazard.  What struck …

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