New Orleans In Durant, Oklahoma in the heart of the Choctaw Nationa, President Obama essentially likened his new program, ConnectHome, to a “dreamweaver,” saying that America has “an interest in making sure [young people] can achieve [their] dreams.” The pilot program is touted as providing internet access to 275000 households containing 200000 children in 27 …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Productive Democracy
New Orleans Talking to my friend and comrade, the learned and brilliant professor from the embattled University of Wisconsin, Joel Rogers, I asked him if he was taking any incoming from the Governor Walker Wars being waged against anything not goose stepping to the Republican far right wing and its master donors. I knew the …
Citizen Wealth for the Rural Global Poor
New Orleans About the only global response to rural poverty, where millions are living on less than $1.25 per day, has been where the poor have voted with their feet and migrated to urban areas, often finding themselves in similar impoverishment. Some small hope is breaking through the hardscrabble though in a study by the …