West Palm Beach Microfinance has inspired great enthusiasm and interest in many quarters. It is a strategy that marshals resources in hard to finance areas at a time where private solutions seem to constantly trump real programs. The jury is still out. I have reservations partly because it is hard to figure how poverty …
Author: wade
Relative Paupers
New Orleans Chris Cooper in the Wall Street Journal refers to the Clinton family in their last year in the White House as “relative paupers” filing taxes on $375,000. Let’s assume this was just “tongue-in-cheek” since the real article was about the fact that the Clintons pulled down at least $109 million in the …
Fake Community Organizations
New Orleans Once again it seems we have been behind the 8-ball in the new trends in community organizing. It seems we at ACORN will never learn. When there’s a hard way or an easy way to do something, we seem to always pick the hard way. In New York City where many organizing …