Kansas City Richmond, California became the first city in the country to take charge of the foreclosure crisis, lingering since 2007, by using its powers of eminent domain to force the hands of the banks to renegotiate the mortgages to market value. As it happens, this issue of Social Policy leads with a great …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Workplace Occupations
Rock Creek The Kindle needed some juice and it was too early in the morning to get the converter humming, so I grabbed a book for a couple of hours that had been gathering dust at home, Revolt on Goose Island: The Chicago Factory Takeover, and What it Says About the Economic Crisis by Kari …
Born Poor, Good Luck; Born Rich, Gravy Train!
Missoula Trying to find a transmission place that might fix the old truck, I checked the headlines. Big story in the Times was the fact that a new economic mobility and demographic study by economists is establishing that it matters where you are born. Ok, now tell me the news? Looking more deeply the …