New Orleans I’ve know Peter Edelman since my days as an organizer for the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO) at the end of the 1960’s. He was a policy centered advocate for many of our positions and gave our organizing some credibility when we needed it. My respect grew for him when he resigned as a …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Defending the Constitution for Workers and Not Elites
New Orleans Hidden in the New York Times the day after the July 4th holiday was a fascinating op-ed piece entitled Workingman’s Constitution, by William E. Forbath, a professor of law and history at the University of Texas in Austin. Forbath was writing in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable …
How Can We Afford a Lame Duck Treasury Secretary?
New Orleans Yes, I understand the politics and for reasons that are easy to guess but terrible to live through, President Obama at this late date can’t push his disastrous failure of a Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner to the curb despite the fact that he is owned from head to toe by Wall Street, wears …