New Orleans A new study being prominently reported argues powerfully that the neighborhood where you live and are raised may have way more to say about determining your future than many families or policy makers or government officials may have been willing to admit. That’s scary for many considering the abandonment of much of urban …
Category: Financial Justice
Time to Take a Hard Look at Utility Companies – Again!
New Orleans The other day I was talking to an archivist as part of an oral history project about ACORN, and we were covering the early 1970s, and as we got ready to march forward to the 20/80 campaign, she stopped me and said, “What about the utility campaigns?” Good point, and that’s where we …
Draining Bloated Drug Prices
Little Rock Something big is happening among drug companies. They aren’t exactly on the run, but they are at least feeling the heat, so there may be hope for the rest of us. Let’s look at how the evidence is starting to add up: Turing Pharmaceuticals and its CEO have become the face of exploitation …