New Orleans As great as it is to finally see some increasing attention being paid to the issues of inequality that have been so many decades in the making, perhaps not enough attention is being paid to the critical role of unions in bridging the inequality gap, especially when it comes to the critical issues …
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Economy and Growing Senior Populations Factor into Decreased State Higher Ed Funding
New Orleans For many of the blamers and “bootstrappers” who like to lay the growing income and inequality divide on the poor themselves rather than federal and state tax and budget policy, the solution is invariably, “why don’t they go to school.” The answer is increasingly that crippled public schools are leaving lower income students unprepared …
The Cable Monopoly is Hurting Us All, Especially the Poor!
New Orleans Finally after toadying up to Comcast in the business pages this week, the New York Times allowed Susan Crawford from Cardozo School of Law to talk truth to power about how the cable companies and, most importantly, their monopolies are hurting the entire US economy and educational advancement while certainly innovation, caging the …