February 10, 2021 New Orleans For the record, I’m clear that the government needs to give more lower income families cash, and they need to do it pretty darned quick. At the same time, I believe in narrowing the equity gap, while also understanding that even in the richest country in the world, there …
More Cash Transfers, Please and Pronto
February 9, 2021 New Orleans Way back when the pandemic was over there, and then over here, and the shutdown of peoples’ lives and work began, can you remember in the first CARES Act stimulus there was a $2000 payment that went straight into Americans’ bank accounts. No account, then you got a debit …
Anne Fenney
February 8, 2021 Pearl River I didn’t know Anne Fenney, but I stayed in her house. I’m not sure how that counts in degrees of separation, but I would mark it as pretty close. Fenney was a folk singer, political activist, union leader, and friend to ACORN and its organizers in Pittsburgh forever. She passed …