New Orleans Ok, I didn’t mean to be coy the other day, but my scholarly campfire friend got back to me, and the site he was recommending that might be the Napster of free books is: www.libgen.info This site is so under the radar that I could find absolutely nothing about it on either …
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Born Poor, Good Luck; Born Rich, Gravy Train!
Missoula Trying to find a transmission place that might fix the old truck, I checked the headlines. Big story in the Times was the fact that a new economic mobility and demographic study by economists is establishing that it matters where you are born. Ok, now tell me the news? Looking more deeply the …
Poverty as a Disease
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 …