New Orleans ACORN was a great organization and some of the gifts from its membership to their neighbors and co-workers keep on giving, despite the fact that the organization shut its doors 13 months ago in the United States. No better example can be found in the automatic increases …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Near Poor: Trouble at the Dividing Line of Poverty
New Orleans Nothing like stumbling over the obvious, but then the whole point of being relatively poor or “near poor,” as the Times called it today, is being invisible, no matter what they or anyone else may want to call it. In looking at the new numbers that try to define the terror and …
Is Cable Offer of Internet Access for Low Income Families Real?
New Orleans The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced with great fanfare a program that would supposedly reduce the “digital divide” between poorer families and the rest of the highly connected rest of the country. Sounds good, but reading the fine print on some of these deals, makes me pretty skeptical, or at least of a …