March 29, 2021 New Orleans Near the top of the list of fundamental social changes over the last fifty years has been the improved role of women in society. The gains in the workplace, though still inadequate, have been sweeping, as wage gaps continue to narrow and barriers to jobs from soldier to science …
Beating the Taxman and Making the Rich Pay
March 28, 2021 Pearl River A bunch of researchers led by the London School of Economics, allowed access to Internal Revenue Service tax reporting data, issued a report card on how well the rich were doing in dealing with the taxman. The short summary is that are winning even bigger than we – and the …
Making Poverty Myths Face the Facts
March 27, 2021 Pearl River I first met Mark Rank, professor of social welfare at Washington University in St. Louis, when we were both panelists at a forum at Loyola University in New Orleans evaluating the impact of Katrina on New Orleans. It was clear from his research then, more than fifteen years ago, that …