New Orleans Josh Ishimatsu wrote an interesting piece for theRooflines blog managed by Shelterforce magazine that asks troubling questions about whether rapid development in the form of gentrification has outstripped community development efforts. He might have even gone farther and asked whether community development corporations have too often been the nonprofit stalking horses for …
Category: Citizen Wealth
GiveDirectly: Tech Narcissism in Africa? Or, What?
New Orleans I read a column in the New York Times by the spectacularly unreliable source, Nicholas Kristoff, that was flatly arguing in his classic neo-liberal mindless hucksterism that rather than try to change the world, perhaps it was better to simply make money and give more away. Despite the absurdity of his argument on its …
ALEC Anti-Public Worker Union Strategy Gaining Steam in the South
Little Rock The ALEC/Koch Brothers strategy to defund public worker labor unions throughout the country continues to sprout up in southern and southwestern states even while the headlines focus on the assault in the Midwest. Bills to curtail or deny payroll deductions for public worker unions have emerged front and center in a number states …