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I used to love me some JB. The funk. The precision. The songs: Papa Got a Brand New Bag. Sex Machine. Popcorn. Say it Loud: I'm Black and I

Sep 20, 20208 min read

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Iconic figures of the Black freedom movement have long centered good jobs for all at the heart of their understanding of full employment

Feb 155 min read

Project2025 proposes to turn up the heat on those owing student loan debt

Oct 10, 20245 min read

Uncle Sam, unlike you and me, cannot "run out of money." Unc is an issuer of currency. We're currency users. It's a huge difference!

May 12, 20247 min read

The wealth divide exists between as well as within groups. It's both a race and class thing.

Apr 10, 20245 min read

Smoking and Mentholated cigarettes is doing a number on our lungs and our lives. If Black lives matter, so must Black lungs.

Mar 20, 20248 min read

The news about inflation is not nearly as bad as some would like you to believe. So, if you're freaking out, stop!

Mar 1, 20245 min read

I arrived early enough to stick my head into the chapel and be hit with a sight that was beyond jarring: Two caskets facing each other, each

Feb 16, 20244 min read

Make no mistake about it: Economic vulnerability is a thing and, particularly important, most of us are likely to get a “taste” of it.

Jan 16, 20245 min read

Poor people are not impoverished because they're under some "generational curse" that needs to be broken. Poverty is political

Jan 15, 20244 min read

"The economy" ought to serve people and the planet, not the other way around

Dec 7, 20236 min read

Milton Friedman, the intellectual OG of the school choice and voucher movement, is dead but far from dead dead

Nov 4, 202310 min read