In a recent article in The Week, “Is Biden setting Harris up to fail?,” it was clearly stated and debated that immigration is a political battle that is tough to win. Appointing Vice President Kamala Harris the point person on immigration issue doesn’t set Ms.… Read More »Immigration: Stopping History From Repeating Itself
The attempt on January 6, 2021 by an armed mob of domestic terrorists, spurred on by a ruthless demagogue and his corrupt acolytes, to overturn a free and fair election at the Capitol, calls to mind certain of Henry George’s observations near the end of… Read More »Coup Reflections
By: Matthew Downhour Analogies are simple and sometimes helpful ways to understand policy and economics but can obscure as much as they reveal. Both on the left and right, it is popular to think of the economy (or more broadly, the good things in life)… Read More »BOOK REVIEW: One Billion Americans
By Bill Batt A Review of Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing, Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery by Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 2019. In the past two decades, a plethora of books and articles have been published, focusing on… Read More »Legacy of the Discovery Doctrine
A coalition of developers and civil rights activists is pushing hard for property tax changes in New York, but the obstacles are formidable. New York City’s property tax formula allows many homes in Park Slope, Brooklyn, to be taxed less than lower-valued properties in other… Read More »A New York Issue That Unites Landlords and the N.A.A.C.P.
Allana Akhtar Oct 7, 2019 Top Image by sujin soman from Pixabay Automation and AI will disrupt — meaning kill or replace with lower-paying work — 4.5 million jobs held by African Americans by 2030, the consultancy McKinsey estimates. African American workers are at a… Read More »Artificial intelligence is slated to disrupt 4.5 million jobs for African Americans, who have a 10% greater likelihood of automation-based job loss than other workers
Photo by David Babayan on Unsplash Richard Florida Claire Tran “Plumbing poverty”—a lack of access to running water, a flush toilet, and an indoor bath or shower—is skewed across racial and socioeconomic lines. Across the United States, more than 460,000 households, or nearly 1.5 million people, lack a… Read More »Where Americans Lack Running Water, Mapped
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