In his own words, Mike’s story of his work with inmates. After teaching the Henry George classes in Arden for about ten years, I started teaching classes in the Delaware prisons. That was 1980. I had Henry George literature at a community booth in Wilmington… Read More »A Captive Audience
Housing insecurity in the nation’s richest cities is far worse than government statistics claim. Just ask the Goodmans. By Brian Goldstone August 21, 2019 Photographs by Sheila Pree Bright for The New Republic Last August, Cokethia Goodman returned home from work to discover a typed… Read More »The New American Homeless
By Elliot Hannon Aug 21, 20196:35 AM The Amazon is burning at an alarming rate in Brazil with 72,843 fires detected so far this year by the country’s space research center INPE. That amounts to an 83 percent increase over the same period in… Read More »Brazil Reports Record Number of Fires in Amazon, but Its Government Doesn’t Care
Photo by Alev Takil on Unsplash “Wealth work” is one of America’s fastest-growing industries. That’s not entirely a good thing. Aug 12, 2019 Derek Thompson, Staff writer at The Atlantic In an age of persistently high inequality, work in high-cost metros catering to the whims of the wealthy—grooming… Read More »The New Servant Class
Move fast and fix things: Promoting tax policies that make sense at the NCSL 2019 in Nashville. RSF Executive Director, Josie Faass, talks with a lobbyist at the booth. In partnership with the Center for the Study of Economics and the Public Revenue Education Council,… Read More »National Conference of State Legislatures 2019
By EMILY BADGER and QUOCTRUNG BUIJUNE 18, 2019 Townhomes, duplexes and apartments are effectively banned in many neighborhoods. Now some communities regret it. Single-family zoning is practically gospel in America, embraced by homeowners and local governments to protect neighborhoods of tidy houses from denser development nearby. Residential land… Read More »Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot
Across the globe, Nestlé is pushing to privatize and control public water resources. Nestlé’s Chairman of the Board, Peter Brabeck, has explained his philosophy with “The one opinion, which I think is extreme, is represented by the NGOs, who bang on about declaring water a… Read More »Nestlé’s Water Privatization Push
About 2.8 planets would be needed if rest of the world followed suit, biocapacity data shows Arthur Neslen Thu 9 May 2019 09.20 EDT Last modified on Thu 9 May 2019 11.03 EDT Europe makes up 7% of the world’s population but exploits a fifth of its… Read More »EU ‘outright dangerous’ in its use of natural resources, says WWF
Photo by Matt Alaniz on Unsplash Shade is an environmental justice issue. The ability to step into a shadow—of a tree, building, or shelter—should be widely accessible. Shade is not just a vital refuge from the burning sun, it can also help cool surface and air… Read More »Shade
From the The Los Angeles Times By Michael Hiltzik May 29, 2019 | 10:00 AM You may remember all the glowing predictions made for the December 2017 tax cuts by congressional Republicans and the Trump administration: Wages would soar for the rank-and-file, corporate investments would… Read More »A devastating analysis of the tax cut shows it’s done virtually no economic good
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