The last in a four-part series on New York City’s turnaround on poverty.
Government
Posted inGovernment, Republic 3.0
How Failures Helped Lead to Success in New York’s War on Poverty
The third in a series on how New York City dropped its poverty rate to among the lowest in the country.
Posted inGovernment, Republic 3.0
How an “Infrastructure for Innovation” Can Defeat Poverty
Part II in a series about New York City’s successful fight to reduce poverty.
Posted inGovernment, Republic 3.0
New York City’s Turnaround on Poverty
Why poverty in New York – unlike in other major cities – is dropping.
Posted inJune/July/August 2016, Magazine, Republic 3.0
Payday for the Public
How the CFPB broke the back of the payday lending industry.
Posted inRepublic 3.0
“Safer” Loans for Payday Borrowers
A new crop of startups aims to out-compete predatory payday lenders.
Posted inGovernment, Republic 3.0
Asian-Americans and Affirmative Action
Affirmative action has survived decades of conservative antagonism, an unfriendly Supreme Court, and attacks by Republican state legislatures, but the institution’s future looks bleaker than ever. While long a staple of the progressive agenda, race-conscious affirmative action has quickly been relegated to the relative fringes of the liberal platform. While both Hillary Clinton and Bernie […]
Posted inGovernment, Republic 3.0
Tomorrow’s Congress Can Take Shape Today
Congress should convene a new Joint Committee tasked with the job of ending gridlock.
Posted inGovernment, Republic 3.0
How to Expand the EITC for Single Workers – Affordably
Limit a deduction that benefits mostly the rich and pay a bonus to low-income workers.
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, March/April/May 2016
Mend, Don’t End, Fannie and Freddie
Conservatives blame the mortgage giants (wrongly) for the financial crisis, and both parties want them dead. But to finish the job of financial reform without destroying the housing market and costing taxpayers billions, we need to let them live.
