News item: the highest rate of unemployment in America is among the folks with the least amount of formal education ————— So, here is the real problem. There are jobs going unfilled because the need for specific education is so high. And, there are workers ready to work, with lower levels of formal education, and… Read More Jobs, Jobs Everywhere – But Not for the Lesser-Educated
It is a great principle in psychiatry that “all-symptoms are overdetermined. This means that they have more than one cause. I want to scream this from the rooftops: “All symptoms are overdetermined.” Except that I want to expand it way beyond psychiatry. I want to expand it to almost everything. I want to translate it,… Read More There Just May Not Be a Magic Bullet – It’s Practically always “Both-And”
Karl Krayer and I will soon complete our 13th full year of hosting the First Friday Book Synopsis. At each of our monthly meetings, Karl and I each present a synopsis of a best selling business book. For nearly half that time, I have also presented synopses every month for the Urban Engagement Book Club… Read More A Suggested Reading List For Those Interested In Issues of Social Justice And Poverty
Last night, I presented my synopsis of This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff. I presented this at a gathering hosted by a financial planning team, and a member of that team took the floor following my presentation for his observations and Q & A. … Read More Clusters of Crises – Interlocking Solutions
Most of the people I write about in this book do not have the luxury of rage. They are caught in exhausting struggles. Their wages do not lift them far enough from poverty to improve their lives, and their lives, in turn hold them back. The term by which they are usually described, “working poor,”… Read More “Nobody who works hard should be poor in America” writes David Shipler
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