Insecurities
The Reality of Middle-class Life in America
affordability is not the question…. It’s income stupid. This is a repost of an article by Ashley McNamara on LinkedIn. I recently ran the numbers […]
What If US Wealth Was Distributed Equally?
a thought exercise in Rawls’ Theory of Justice US household wealth rose to $181.6 trillion at the end of 2025. If that wealth were spread […]
ALICE creates a view of life in America
a recent find…… I recently stumbled on ALICE – Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed at United for ALICE. Of the 132,530,794 households in the U.S. […]
My Children Will Be Better Off Than Me – a series on American values
A cherished part of our national culture has long been the belief that parents can improve their children’s future through better education, hard work, and […]
Pervasive Anonymity Is a Significant Threat
recent ICE masking is the tip of the iceberg of this destructive practice The appearance of various masked Federal agents seizing people on the street […]
A Poem for This Day Before the Self-Inflicted Famine
from an acquaintance in my old hometown I follow David Olivencia’s occasional comments about life on his blog Letters from a Postman. This one caught […]
Abundance by Klein and Thompson – a book review
I read Abundance as part of my participation in the Hudson Area Library’s Nonfiction Book Group. Abundance offers many telling comments about our situation. In […]
David Brooks on nurturing human capital in poor people
What might he say about our billionaire class “As a society, we are pretty good at transferring money to the poor, but we’re not very […]
Food Deserts from 99% Invisible
a great introduction to the monopolization of the US economy A key phenomenon of the past fifty years has been the explosion in the monopoly […]