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. …
Will the Rich and Top Dogs Jump the Vaccination Line?
December 2, 2020 Greenville We’re about to have an interesting national test in the United States, and much of the world, that will determine exactly how unequal our societies really are, or, if we pass, how just we are in valuing all lives equally. I’m talking about the distribution of …