December 5, 2020 Pearl River Some of the issues for significantly recalibrating US efforts on climate and energy seem the same, but Northeastern Professor Jennie Stephens brings some different twists to them in Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy, in our recent discussion on Wade’s World. Stephens made the case …
Hiring for All December 4, 2020 Little Rock This is interesting. Rather than raise wages, some companies – and labor economists – believe that the other way to increase income would be to expand the field of hiring to more workers. I’m cynical probably, and I don’t want to rain on this parade, because a …
Rent-to-Own, Same Ol’ or Something Different?
December 3, 2020 Little Rock Don’t misunderstand me, we want to believe, we really do. Several years ago, the ACORN Home Savers Campaign worked in a half-dozen cities trying to bend the crooked curve of various land contracts, rent-to-own schemes, and similar home buying or home renting products into something straight. …