New Orleans Being on the wrong side of the tracks as I tried to beat the train to get to my office in time for a live radio show, I ended up driving from street to street to beat the traffic lined up to enter a road that traversed the tracks. Weaving in and out …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Hiding Real Estate Ownership from Tenants and Land Contract Holders
New Orleans Recently I listened to the presentation of a fine group of graduate students at the School of Social Work at Georgia State University that summarized the results of four months of work in collaboration with the ACORN Home Savers Campaign. The report indicated the results were mixed. Our contact and outreach goals were …
Welfare, Just the Facts, Ma’am
New Orleans Trump’s aides in trying to explain the president’s feelings about cutting away more of what is left of the safety net including food stamps and housing subsidies as well as his support for work requirements on those programs and Medicaid say that he calls them all “welfare,” a word that he sees as …