New Orleans At first this idea may sound really, really stupid. Ben Carson, the secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) responsible for financing the public housing and housing subsidy vouchers across the country has announced a plan in his words, “to give poor people a way out of poverty.” His plan to achieve this …
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The New American Aristocracy
Vancouver “The Birth of a New American Aristocracy” is not exactly a catchy title for a piece in the current issue of The Atlantic, although it won’t surprise anyone when I say that it certainly caught my eye. It’s one of those long-winded, multi-page things that about twenty of us around the country might read …
The Racism and Rural-Urban Divide Behind Work Requirement Exemptions
New Orleans Imposing work requirements to punish the poor seems to be spreading like a virus around the country. It’s an ugly, mean spirited kind of thing, but a closer look at the way state politicians are trying to carve out exemptions to these requirements reveals even more about the self-serving blindness behind the exemptions …