jeez i wrote this last week and never posted. lame. So everyone’s asking if I read the NYT’s article, In Prisoner’s Wake, a Tide of Troubled Kids. Yeah I read it and I did not like. As a child of a parent who spent most of my childhood in jail or cracked out, I turned [...]
Yesterday the Boston Globe had an interesting article on the absence of men, in particular Black men, in antipoverty policy. Children have always been considered “deserving poor” because they are largely helpless, and women have long been considered deserving because their plight was usually the result of widowdom. For the most part, Americans have taken [...]