No Free Ride for the Rich?

Inequity

New Orleans       As tech gazillionaires line up at Mar-de-Lago to “kiss the key,” as the papers called it, of President-elect Trump, they have to be hoping that the next administration will be nothing buy high clover for the rich, assuming that Trump will put all of this populist stuff on the back burner once …

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Meritocracy on the Skids

Inequity

            Marble Falls       David Brooks has made a living in books, New York Times columns, and the academy as a palatable social critic and commentator.  He’s deeply conservative, but in a tolerable and largely unoffensive way.  He’s a “never Trumper,” who goes out of his way to try and understand the Trump base; he’s …

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US is Hard Country for Old People

Future Inequity

New Orleans       In the United States, there’s been a retirement crisis in front of our noses for a long time.  The country depends on immigrant, often undocumented workers for farm labor, child care, healthcare, and throughout the service and manufacturing economy.  Though they pay taxes and underpin the Social Security system for other elderly, …

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