New Orleans In the last couple of days I’ve read various campaign pronouncements on capping the cost of childcare and capping student loan payments. Hey, tell me we can’t all get behind something like that. But, I was struck by the fact that the ceiling on both of these onerous burdens for millions of working …
Category: Citizen Wealth
The Emerging Theme of the Impotence of the Elites
New Orleans Whether regular politics or the tactics of terrorists, the common message bridging the extremes in this time of exacerbated inequity seems to be the impotence of the elites. They can take care of themselves, but the rest us are somewhere between hamburger meat and dog food. The daily breast-beating of pundits and politicians …
Co-Op Leaders in the Bunker, but Feeling the Heat
New Orleans The cover story in this issue of the quarterly journal, Social Policy, laid out the case once again on the lack of diversity and democracy in the rural electric cooperatives in the 12-state southern area. The minimal representation of African-Americans and Hispanics is region-wide despite the huge populations of both of these groups …