Rock Creek Besides fishing, reading, hiking, and sleeping, the other nice thing about vacations out here in the quiet off-the-grid, is that one has that rare, precious and luxurious feeling that you have time to think. Not just to put two plus two together, but to arrange them in patterns, cancel out the highs and …
Tag: poverty
The Poor Will be Among Us, and Corporations Will be Selling Them Crap!
New Orleans When I wrote Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families, with my editor’s encouragement I labored pretty hard to make the case that major corporations understood the importance of citizen wealth or income security for lower income families and some had in fact fine tuned their business models to live and …
Cultural Shift: The Media Suddenly Rediscovers Poverty
New Orleans I swear there’s a shift suddenly in the recognition that poverty is a big freaking problem. Everywhere I turn in recent days commentators, columnists and reporters feel obligated to at least mention poverty and the poor either directly or euphemistically. In a cultural shift from recent decades, folks feel they should at least …