from the New York Times:
How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality
An enormous entitlement in the tax code props up home prices — and overwhelmingly benefits the wealthy and the upper middle class.
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Economy
Trickle-Down Returns to Enrich the Rich – updated
Updated 9/28/2017 When I posted this back in June 2017, I was hardly prescient, just sure that Republicans and conservative Democrats would return to the illusory language of trickle-down economic growth. Yesterday President Trump kicked off his big tax cut program in Indiana saying, “a revolutionary change, and the biggest --->> read more -->>
Politics
Trump’s Innovations in Governing
The Plutocrats Have Occupied the White House and Executive Branch It has been a fact of American life for decades that the rich and corporations control our political system. But this control has been exercised always one arms length removed from the actual levers of power. They have had to be --->> read more -->>
Books
Slavery in Hudson and Columbia Cty NY
It is doubtless a fact that most Northerners, including the writer, think that slavery in America was a Southern problem. In the North slavery was an occasional institution, or so we think. A week ago on Thursday 6/8/17 I attended a program at the library, “Abolition and Women’s Rights in --->> read more -->>