http://www.kabf.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Wades%20World%20%20051118.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans I happened to be sitting next to Washington University professor Mark Rank on a post-Katrina panel at Tulane University a decade or so ago. In the intervening years Rank’s research into the real costs of poverty have become the benchmarks for assessment that the …
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The War on the Poor is about Hate Not Economics
New Orleans Lucky thing I don’t have the big head, or I would think the folks running the editorial pages for the Times were reading my blogs. How could it be coincidence that today, just as an example, one editorial quotes me almost exactly, and Paul Krugman, the columnist and Nobel Prize winner in economics, …
Inequality Breeds Epidemics and Can Kill More than Just the Poor
New Orleans Spoiler alert. There is not a happy ending to this story without wide scale change in inequality. Turns out that not only is the wealth and income gap destroying our democracy and much of the social fabric of our lives and communities, but it is also breeding infectious diseases that leap past the …