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 …
Category: ACORN
One Percent Solutions
Lisbon Theda Skopal is a professor at Harvard, who along with Robert Putnam (“Bowling Alone”), has deeply studied from various angles voluntary associations and what they say about American civic engagement. In one of her books she uses an interesting numerical benchmark to reckon with the issues of scale for voluntary associations operating on …
Job Rich Cash Poor
Lisbon Some nuggets being mined from a recent report by the Economic Mobility Project of the Pew Charitable Trust point about disturbing trends, but are consistent with arguments that the ACORN Financial Justice Center has been making about the problems in predatory practice and subprime financing. For African-American families the surveys seem to indicate …