New Orleans It’s hard not to wonder about the mixed messages of popular culture about the huge divides between rich and poor when all of the happy endings seem to go the other way for the rich, including the amoral rip-off artists and scammers. The new movie by Martin Scorsese, The Wolf of Wall …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Attacks Continue on Obamacare Enrollment Process
New Orleans Scantily reported in the review of the results and performance of enrollment under the Affordable Care Act are the continued attacks against the heart of the process both on the website and in the field, including in places where the biggest potential enrollment is possible, Texas. I’m not talking about in Congress either. …
More on Scarcity, Slack, Bandwidth and Impact on Poor and Public Policy
New Orleans If you thought you had learned enough about the book, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means so Much, by Sendhil Mullainathan, a Harvard economist, and Eldar Shafir, a Princeton psychologist, and the impact their work should have on public policy for the poor and the rest of us, you’re wrong, because here comes …