Seattle Flying into Seattle I had in my hands an article about neighborhoods in Seattle and how they influenced, and perhaps determined, the future of children raised in those neighborhoods. The article was based on Census data tracked assiduously by Bureau statisticians and researchers from Brown and Harvard Universities. When we think about predictive data, …
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Arkansas Playing Gotcha with the Poor to Cut Them Off of Medicaid
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/01_Johnny_Guitar_1536998415215958.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans In a sordid and shameful episode a few weeks ago Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson pridefully announced that the state had managed to bar 4300 people from health care support through Medicaid because of its new work requirement policies. Seema Verma the head of the federal …
Running for President on $1000 Per Month
New Orleans Huey Long, a former Senator and Governor of Louisiana, launched “Share the Wealth” clubs across the country with Gerald L. K. Smith as his acolyte and chief organizer in a populist challenge to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt during the Great Depression. On Wade’s World, I recently interviewed Andrew Yang, a techster, entrepreneur, and …