New Orleans Conservatives always complain about bureaucrats and the vast governmental bureaucracy. It is painful to realize how paperwork and bureaucracy are used as not-so-secret weapons to deny mandated benefits designed to help families and children from eligible, fully qualified families. Success is defined by the ability to put barriers in the way of families …
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The New Poor Peoples’ Campaign for 2018
New Orleans Thinking about the new year on the first, fresh day of 2018, let’s make a note to pay close attention to the development of the New Poor Peoples’ Campaign on the 50th anniversary of the old Poor Peoples’ Campaign. The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. led the first Poor Peoples’ Campaign in March …
Don’t Believe in Climate Change? So Long, Rural South!
New Orleans A peer review study published in the weekly journal, Science, would give any policymaker pause about the future of huge parts of the United States by the end of this century, if they were willing to read it and heed it. One would think Republicans interested in the future of their party would …