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Letters to the Obama Administration are needed to provide work authorization for immigrants provided prosecutorial discretion.
Join the new campaign to end detention of immigrant children.
The Greater New Orleans Community Data Center releases its study of the challenges facing New Orleans in terms of building an inclusive, high-skill workforce for its future economy.
A stunningly attractive new product is being offered by at least four banks nationwide. The product—to use an overly respectful term—is called a Direct Deposit Advance (DDA). The problem: DDAs work just like a predatory payday loan and appear to be even more deceptive.
At the beginning of this year's state legislative sessions in Mississippi and Louisiana the odds that immigration enforcement bills would be passed in both statehouses looked likely, especially in Mississippi. Republican Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisiana had been re-elected by a wide margin, and the newly elected Republican governor of Mississippi, Phil Bryant, had made immigration enforcement a major component of his election strategy.
While there has been extensive media coverage of the February 26, 2012 shooting of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida from divergent racial and political perspectives, few, if any Catholics, have reflected publicly on the case. Fordham University theologian Maureen O'Connell invites Catholics to reflect on Catholic social teaching and race in a recent piece in the National Catholic Reporter.
In her 2011 Sutherland Address to the American Society of Criminology, Ruth D. Peterson argued that a comprehensive approach to understanding race and racial disparities in crime and justice is necessary.
During Ronald Reagan's first term and in the budget that his Budget Director David Stockman later termed "pigs at the trough," due to the goodies for the wealthy and other big interests, the rent on all poor tenants - elderly, disables, and families with children - in federally subsidized housing was raised by 20%. How? By increasing the cap on rent from 25% of income to 30% of income for these poor tenants.
Four years ago, a friend told me that he was voting for candidate so-and-so for president because it would be best for the industry in which he worked. No, not for my business, my taxes, my state, or even my family. The ultimate measure for a voter is not any personal interest, but actually the ancient standard of the “common good."
Having monitored economic inequality for 30-plus years, the current “news” about growing inequality seems almost to be too late and too little. Accusations of “class warfare” against those who question our current economic realities in the United States ignore the “stealth class warfare” of four decades that has brought us to this yawning gap between rich and poor in both income and wealth.