New Orleans I’m not going to say that we’re not making progress because enrollment under the Affordable Care Act continues to increase despite opposition. On the other hand there is no way not to be disappointed and outraged about the millions of uninsured adults that are caught in the gap between politicians and good …
Category: Financial Justice
Gentrification Outstripping Community Development
New Orleans Josh Ishimatsu wrote an interesting piece for theRooflines blog managed by Shelterforce magazine that asks troubling questions about whether rapid development in the form of gentrification has outstripped community development efforts. He might have even gone farther and asked whether community development corporations have too often been the nonprofit stalking horses for …
GiveDirectly: Tech Narcissism in Africa? Or, What?
New Orleans I read a column in the New York Times by the spectacularly unreliable source, Nicholas Kristoff, that was flatly arguing in his classic neo-liberal mindless hucksterism that rather than try to change the world, perhaps it was better to simply make money and give more away. Despite the absurdity of his argument on its …