New Orleans The political division over vaccinations continues to rage. There were demonstrations in Europe. There’s a headline about some kind of truckers’ convoy moving in Canada to protest in Ottawa. In the United States, it’s everywhere it seems, with a hardcore of 15% or so that say never ever. Meanwhile, US hospitals are …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Apps for the Poor
New Orleans Decades ago, ACORN embarked on a pilot to increase the enrollment for families in San Antonio, New Orleans, and Miami in the Earned Tax Credit and Child Care Credit programs. We ran it as an organizing program in areas where we knew, based on demographic data and our own organizing experience, …
Role Model Standards Are in Flux
Marble Falls I admit it. When I started thinking about the day, Novak Djokovic, the deported tennis star and his arrogant and narcissistic vaccination position was on my mind, and how athletes were poor choices as role models in society. Then Martin Luther King, Jr. popped into my head which was a strange combination, despite holiday, but the …