New Orleans Having run campaigns through the Iowa caucuses, it is hard to have warm feelings about them, largely because my first memory is of single-digit, gray, freezing days in Des Moines in January. In 1980 particularly we had teams of ACORN organizers and members door knocking all over the state in four foot …
Category: ACORN
Bottom Billion
Lisbon Two things came together that might be worth sharing. One was the conclusions argued by Paul Collier in a book called The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can be Done About It? and the other was a piece in the Times by Jason DeParle making a related case …
Book Report: Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds
Lisbon Part of my holiday reading has included Labor in the New Urban Battlegrounds: Local Solidarity in a Global Economy edited by Lowell Turner and Daniel B. Cornfield and published this year (2007) by ILR/Cornell University Press. The book was already worth my price of admission for introducing me to Sellers essay that included …