New Orleans A combination of factors has curbed some, but not all, of the appetite for nonprofit hospitals’ frenzy of legal actions against lower income families in North Carolina, giving hope that the new Affordable Care Act restrictions against draconian collection practices might actually be effective. We have been following closely whether or not nonprofit …
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A Work and Time Time Test for Public Housing Tenants
Frankfort Hidden in plain sight in the Obama Administration budget proposal before the U.S. Congress now is a potentially huge and unsettling change in the way that public housing is administered. The budget seems to envision an expanded requirement that living in public housing could require proof of a job and could be time limited. …
Cultural Shift: The Media Suddenly Rediscovers Poverty
New Orleans I swear there’s a shift suddenly in the recognition that poverty is a big freaking problem. Everywhere I turn in recent days commentators, columnists and reporters feel obligated to at least mention poverty and the poor either directly or euphemistically. In a cultural shift from recent decades, folks feel they should at least …