Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poverty. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 21, 2022

There Shall Be No Needy, part 3: Taking time, place, and person into account

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What constitutes poverty? Is there such a thing as "the" poverty line? And is it always based on the amount a person owns, or do s...
Thursday, October 4, 2012

Can't Eat? Probably Won't Learn

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Stop blaming the teachers.  The biggest education reform this country could undertake would be to make sure all students have a place to liv...
Monday, May 28, 2012

What We Have Here is Tailored to Communicate

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"Tell me a story." Beginning in childhood, we all ask to hear stories.  They entertain us.  They delight us.  They help us make...
Thursday, April 15, 2010

Uninsured Don't Think the Answer is Forcing Them to Buy

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I've been recapping the Massachusetts experience with mandatory health insurance, asking what it can tell us about the federal plan just...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

What's to Like about the New Health Insurance Bill

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How should we regard the new health insurance bill that President Obama just signed into law? On Monday, I gave an overview. For the next ...
Thursday, March 4, 2010

The Real Economy is People

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Note: This entry first appeared as a column in the Somerville Journal. They say the economy is improving. But you can’t tell it by Anne. An...
Thursday, June 25, 2009

Further Away from Universal Health Insurance in Massachusetts

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"We don't really care whether everybody gets insurance." The Massachusetts Health Connector might as well emblazon that messag...
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Monday, June 1, 2009

You Must Buy Health Insurance--MGH Needs Your Money

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I will get back to the delights of midrash in a bit--but first, the latest outrage from the Massachusetts health care system. Massachusetts ...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009

The Boneyard

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Annals of military spending: Some stylish people--fewer, since the recession stated--trade in their used cars every year or two for the very...
Thursday, November 6, 2008

Get Up, Stand Up After the Election

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To keep the promises made by the Obama campaign , the Obama Administration will need all the help it can get. Here is a very partial and inc...
Sunday, October 19, 2008

Organizing to End Poverty, 21st-Century Style

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Wednesday was National Blog Action Day on poverty. Since I work at an anti-poverty agency, I had a lot to say about the topic, and I've...
Thursday, October 16, 2008

An Anti-Poverty Platform

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Strategy 2: An Anti-Poverty Platform Yesterday, I explained why all the work that agencies like the one I work for aren't enough to get...
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Up from Poverty?

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When Lyndon Johnson called for a War on Poverty, what he really meant was an all-out effort to eliminate it. But poverty is not an enemy. ...
Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Support the Troops in the War on Poverty!

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I wrote yesterday that we have never fought a "war on poverty. " When the U.S. goes to war, it spends whatever is necessary to su...
Monday, October 13, 2008

We Can Still Win the War on Poverty

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Ronald Reagan once said, "We fought a war on poverty and poverty won." Ronald Reagan lied. Poverty did not win. From 1963, when...
Sunday, October 5, 2008

Money for Nothing?

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What just happened in Congress this week? Was the bailout of Wall Street investment firms a necessary evil--or just evil? 1. In this corner...
Wednesday, August 13, 2008

What About the Poor?

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So now we know that former Presidential candidate John Edwards had an affair with a consultant to his campaign. Some people are shaking thei...