New Orleans The National Rifle Association or NRA is rarely confused with anything that would seem soft and fuzzy given its hard edge, take-no-prisoners, win-at-all-costs attitude about anything that might even vaguely resemble gun control. When President Trump speaks of cleaning up the Washington DC swamp of lobbying and influence peddling, he pretty much has …
Opportunity Zones Open the Door to More Rip-offs of the Poor
New Orleans The Trump-McConnell-Ryan tax giveaway of 2017 is a bad penny that just keeps coming up again and again. Although it was a stupendous tax break for corporations and the rich, the president tried to disguise its real purpose by claiming it would give working- and middle-class taxpayers a break. Headlines abound now about …
Full Employment! Really?
New Orleans In the breathless and world shaking tone common to television and radio broadcasts, economists were trying to parse the numbers in the federal report on jobs and wages for February. Growth was almost nonexistent at 20,000 new hires, and there was a lot of “he-say, she saying” back and forth on that. …