New Orleans One of the many unresolved issues from the Great Recession, still painfully winding down, is whether or not it is time to call the dream of home ownership for low-and-moderate income families a tragic mirage. Having wiped out a generation of increased ownership among African-Americans and Hispanic families, and lacking a concerted funding …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Is it Time to talk about a Backlash against Women?
New Orleans What is going on these days? Seems like everywhere we turn there are attacks on women in what seems a backlash against the self-satisfied progress we had hoped we were making. The International Labor Organization finds that there is no country where women have achieved pay equity with men. This includes even …
Privatization Everywhere in UK, and Monopoly Rising in USA
London When privatization of public services is ubiquitous, it’s actually kind of scary, as I just witnessed in England and Scotland. Catching a train from Edinburgh to London, I did a double take when I saw a pink Virgin train rolling down track 3 towards me as I waited to jump from Haymarket to …