Homi Kharas: How Billionaires Could Solve Global Problems with a 1% Tax
Homi Kharas of the Brookings Institution writes about ways that the world’s billionaires could solve persistent global problems by paying an annual tax of 1%...
Category : Poverty
Jan Resseger: Biden’s “Build Back Better Program” Would Lift Millions of Children Out of Poverty
Jan Resseger, one of our best informed bloggers and social justice advocates, lauds President Biden’s Build Back Better program for its benefits for children. It...
John Tanner: Why Do Politicians Cling to Failed Education Policies?
John Tanner is a blogger in San Antonio. In this post, he asks a question that I have asked myself many times: Why do ”reformers”...
Saving the Commons: This I Believe
Privatization of important parts of the public sector is a great scourge of our times. No institution is more fundamental to the American Dream than...
Politico: Give Bernie Sanders’ Credit for Pushing Biden Relief Bill
Politico writes that Senator Bernie Sanders deserves credit for key features of the $1.9 trillion Biden plan and for encouraging Biden not to compromise with...
The New Yorker: The Biden Plan Includes a Genuine Anti-Poverty Program
Sheelah Kolhatkar, a staff writer for The New Yorker, describes the most remarkable part of the Biden COVID rescue plan: its income payments for children....
Why Zip Codes Matter
From the earliest days of corporate reform, which is now generally recognized to have been a failed effort to “reform” schools by privatizing them and...
Biden’s $1.9 Trillion Relief Bill Will Lift Many Children Out of Poverty
Valerie Strauss writes about the dramatic effect that the Biden COVID relief plan will have on children. The effects will last only for one year,...
Biden’s Rescue Plan Will Cut Child Poverty in Half!
Joe Biden just signed the most sweeping economic relief package since the New Deal. He has addressed poverty and inequality directly and fearlessly. Trump could...
Christina Groeger: How Education Embedded Inequality
Historian of education Christina Groeger writes that Americans have long believed that education is the key to equality, but she thinks that this faith is...