We had a short-lived experiment. One many Republicans abhorred. Because helping the poor is not in their DNA.
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Money Makes a Big Difference
Tag Archives: Poverty
Keep it coming
We’ve done a wonderful thing. We’ve lowered the poverty rate dramatically during the pandemic. From 17.5% down to 11.9%! And, no, silly, it wasn’t the COVID-19 disease that created that change.
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May Day! May Day!
My client base includes a variety of business and individuals. One of the sorriest lot nowadays are my artist clients.
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Where the money is
So, earlier this week, I wrote about the economic conditions in America. How we no longer believe in the American Dream, how wealth is being allocated to the 1% as the bottom 50% loses. How the wage gains some folks want you to think are due to our economic conditions are really just the result of the (finally approved) changes to the minimum wage.
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Disinterested Self Interest?
Today, I will dispense with the concept of being “politically correct”; instead, I shall be positively correct politically.
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The Gaps Remain…
I live in a fairly affluent section of America. Our high school is the largest in the Commonwealth, with 3400. With a wide range of aptitudes and ambitions. Many of our graduates attend the Ivies (and the elite state schools like Michigan, Virginia, etc.)… and some are recent (legal and illegal) immigrants lacking formal schooling and/or a foundation in English. Some are among the 1%… both at the top and bottom of the spectrum.
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Welcome to the Poorhouse
Growing up, I thought that America had changed the way it viewed poor people. We no longer made the poor go to jail. We outlawed debtor’s prisons in 1833 (which, unfortunately, did not really stop the practice). And, certainly by the end of the Depression, America knew that putting poor people in jail was bad policy. Obviously, some folks no longer understand bad policy.
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