New Orleans Thinking about the new year on the first, fresh day of 2018, let’s make a note to pay close attention to the development of the New Poor Peoples’ Campaign on the 50th anniversary of the old Poor Peoples’ Campaign. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. led the first Poor Peoples’ Campaign in March …
Category: Financial Justice
Whining of Charities is Unseemly
Gulfport The recently approved tax bill is an abomination without any doubt. It’s claims of reform are a poorly crafted mask for a transfer of wealth from virtually all of us over the coming years to the coffers of the rich and corporations. Despite a couple of public relations stunts based largely on favorable tax …
Judge Forces HUD to Allow 200,000 Section 8 Holders to Get their Move On
Gulfport Another day, another dollar, and again a judge, this time a federal one, pulls the rope up to ground again to take another small step in preventing the country from going to hell in a hand basket. The judge, Beryl Howell, of the prestigious U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, overturned a …