San Francisco Erik Eckholm of the Times is one of the last reporters on the “poverty beat” in the country, and by god I almost feel a personal obligation to read his pieces and try to get the word out before the paltry news of the poor disappears from papers altogether. He was on the …
Republicans Going Brit
San Francisco Before running off to Books, Inc, I watched the Obama speech at the Tides Momentum conference. I was prepared to be disappointed, so I was pleasantly surprised that the President had fight in him and was pushing hard across the board, including on the public alternatives. I liked the fact that he was …
Unspent Citizen Wealth Support
San Francisco Sitting in the Tides Momentum conference, I couldn’t help taking some notes as Larry Mishel from the Economic Policy Institute showed his slides estimating that unemployment would rise to over 10% in 2010. More frighteningly, he said that when he added in underemployment the rates would be almost 18% then with 27,000,000 jobs …