Seattle Having spent a week in Juneau, Alaska working with men and women dealing daily with the stigma and discrimination that comes with mental health challenges and disabilities, I should have been prepared for Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction and its warnings of the pervasive, powerful, and often destructive and discriminating role that Big …
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Big Mistakes on Countrywide and Healthcare Polls
New Orleans Charles Blow, the statistical columnist for the Times, did an excellent job today of “catching the cat,” as he called it by looking under the numbers of the polls around support or opposition to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Looking at a Times/CBS poll that is widely cited by the Republicans as their …
Super Volunteers with a Super Idea for Micro-Finance Borrowers – Help!
New Orleans ACORN International is hard at work right now on pulling together all of the pieces and pressure on our Remittance Justice Campaign (www.remittancejustice.org) as we try to tighten the screws on banks and money transfer organizations, but we are keeping our eyes open on our next campaign around microfinance. Melanie Craxton, a student …