Originally Published by The National Memo July 11, 2013 While Wall Street aims for another record-breaking week, we would like to remind economic forecasters of the harsh reality facing the rest of the country. Last month, we conducted focus groups among voters in Orlando, Florida and Columbus, [...]
Studies show that students born or raised in affluent families are more likely to succeed. From day one, an infant exposed to finer books, art, music, and language begins to bloom. The widening academic achievement gap between the rich and the poor is undeniable. Race, in the [...]
The times have changed. Poverty is less prominent in the news. President Johnson's Great Society Plan is a thing of the past. The War On Poverty that brought into being the Elementary and Secondary Education Act has long since evolved. President Johnson and Congress, at the time, [...]
By Leon Wieseltier | Originally Published at The New Republic. December 21, 2012 WHEN I LOOK BACK at my education, I am struck not by how much I learned but by how much I was taught. I am the progeny of teachers; I swoon over teachers. Even [...]
America’s children seem to be shortchanged on almost every issue we face as a society. Not only are we failing to protect our children from deranged people wielding semi-automatic guns. We’re not protecting them from poverty. The rate of child poverty keeps rising – even [...]
By Black Agenda Report Executive Editor Glen Ford | Black Agenda Report. May 19, 2010 02:15 AM Contrary to the Big Lie that holds that Blacks have been making general progress in closing various economic “gaps” with whites since the Sixties, African American households have been getting [...]
Introductory Historical Context 2015: The twentieth anniversary of Welfare Reform is rapidly approaching. Amidst much cntraversary at the time, The "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act was signed into law on August 22, 1996. Today, it is lauded, applauded and praised. Still questions remain. Ten years after [...]
For several years now, I've been trying to find a better balance between work and family, and failing miserably. I've only just understood why. It's the word ''balance'' that threw me. I've always assumed that a better balance meant more of what you really want [...]
Becoming a media buzzword is the public relations dream of every Washington policy cabal. It is the signal that the media is ready to collaborate. The great PR success story of the 1980s was the "supply-siders." The term, which suggests a conservative concern with investment [...]
