Greenville Here’s a guest blog run on the workingclassstudies.wordpress.com blog for Working-Class Perspectives shepherded by Professors Sherry Linkton of Georgetown University and John Russo, Visiting Scholar of the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and Working Poor at Georgetown, and formerly of Youngstown State University in Ohio. Posted on May 1, 2017 by Working-Class Perspectives Yes, Donald …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Cities and Neighborhoods Catch a Break in Beating Banks
New Orleans In a rare surprise over the dozen years that conservative US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has run the nation’s highest court, he joined the four more liberal justices on an issue, delivering a 5-3 vote. Even more shocking the decision was a slap in the face to big banks, in …
It Helps the Rich and Powerful that People Are Mystified By Enormous Inequality
New Orleans Some professors are reporting that they are changing their minds about the importance of equality to people. They argue that it’s more about access to opportunity than it is about distribution. Six of one, a half-dozen of the other. Key to their change of mind, reported in the Wall Street Journal, was a …