New Orleans Dr. Perri Klaus wrote a piece recently for a Times’ column that should not be ignored essentially making the case that poverty is not simply a social, political, and economic circumstance, but a disease with terrible consequences, lifelong impacts, and potentially multi-generational effects. At one level he talks about an increasingly prevalent diagnosis …
Tag: Poverty in America
Fifty Million Poor on the Edge of the Fiscal Cliff
New Orleans With all of the chatter about this so-called fiscal “cliff,” it seems the real danger is not to the poor rich, who might have to start paying at least a little more of their fair share of taxes, but to the real poor who are being threatened directly with every word out of …
The Destruction of Citizen Wealth
New Orleans It is hard to miss the markers of the precipitous slide of US citizen wealth flowing from the Great Recession. New figures from the Census Bureau indicate another dive for the 4th straight year (obviously starting in 2007 in the Bush era). We now stand a hair above $50,000 in median household …