New Orleans Something big is happening in housing. Maybe big and bad. Maybe big and unknown, but scary in its uncertainty for the future. Here are the facts that frighten. Home ownership dropped again in the last quarter of 2016 and when it did so, it fell below 63% to the lowest level in …
Category: Financial Justice
Milwaukee and Other Cities are Explosions Waiting to Happen
New Orleans For quite a while in these times of inequity and polarization around income, class, race, and so many other issues, there has seemed – at least to me – a fuse steadily and slowly burning towards an explosion in our cities. We are definitely seeing it now in Milwaukee, as the community rioted …
Obamacare is Delivering Some of the Goods in Poor States
New Orleans There are now some thirty states that have expanded eligibility for Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. There are twenty states – and a lot of the Republican Congress — that are still dragging their wagons through the dirt, and, if researchers are right, putting their people under the ground as well. Researchers …