New Orleans Maybe I should shut-up about the Sidewalk development project being proposed by Google in Toronto on 800-acres. ACORN and some of our allies went after them from the day they won the bid to submit proposals on the issue of the lack of affordable housing in a city that is caught in an …
Category: Financial Justice
Getting Serious about the Policy of Taxing the Rich
Washington This whole thing about taxing the rich is getting serious. There were more than 150 people in a wonk policy festival organized brilliantly by the Institute for Policy Studies and the Economic Policy Institute, two of the most respected research centers in Washington. Talking about taxes in general is mind-numbing, head spinning, headache producing …
Raise the Wage Act
Washington Landing in President Trump’s “swamp” in Washington early in the morning, I turned on my phone for email. There was an ACTION ALERT! I knew it was important, because it was all in capital letters, the universal signal for emergency. Scanning quickly, it was not an emergency for me at all, but a …