Memphis After a 30-year HUD led program to obliterate public housing in the USA, there probably isn’t any more quixotic campaign than to try and save the “last public housing project in Memphis,” as Robert Lipscomb, head of the Memphis Public Housing Authority calls the 497 unit Foote Homes, but there I was huddled in …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Modern American Debtors’ Prisons
New Orleans Lord please help the poor, because in America these days it has become a crime to be poor! Local jails are becoming debtors prisons thanks to the fact that local courts, where justice is rumored rather than meted out it seems, in many areas have outsourced fines and fees leaving people with a …
Breadlines: The Impact of Budget Cuts on Citizen Wealth
Toronto If anyone really wants to know what the impact of Congressman Paul Ryan’s budget proposals, Tea Party harangues, and Republic policy propositions would be for working people, it might be worth taking a look at the impact of the current austerity program in Britain under the conservative government there. A friend in Toronto sent me …