Should We Pay Doctors to Take Patients for Walks?
This is an interesting piece for the way it calls on us to shift our approach and pay doctors and other health care professionals to engage patients in prevention. I have to ask, though: what would the rate of reimbursement be for doctors taking patients for walks? A Long View on Health Care – Think [...]
Headline Rewrite: Spending Cuts and Tax Breaks for the Rich Could Prompt Recession Next Year
I like how the headline on the article linked below cites only “tax increases” as the problem with next year’s budget. While there are some issues with taxes that will affect the middle class, the real issue are staring us right in the face in the text of the article: spending cuts and tax breaks [...]
U.S. | Rising innequalities in the United States was a root cause of the financial crisis
Reblogged from Global Job Gap, Local Skills Gap: As noted by The Economist, “[s]everal prominent economists now reckon that inequality was a root cause of the financial crisis.” Indeed, in recent years there has been a proliferation of analyses supporting this view writes Till van Treeck in Did inequality cause the U.S. financial crisis? published on boeckler.de. The [...]
Highly Educated…And On Welfare
There is a new reality out there for many PhD’s — the reality of poverty as their ranks increase but the job opportunities don’t. Read on: From Graduate School to Welfare – Graduate Students – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Providence Ranked in Bottom 5 for Job Creation
You hate to see it, but Providence is really struggling to hire. I am sure Mayor Angel Taveras is doing all he can to put us on the road to job creation, but it’s not easy when his own city is so financially strapped. Full article: Oklahoma City Leads Large Cities in Job Creation.
BREAKING: Bush Opposes Taxing the Rich
What a surprise. George Bush wants all the tax breaks to stay in place for the 1%. ”Leave capital in the treasuries of the job creators,” he says in the article linked below. Here’s a concept: what about letting the middle class be job creators? What about helping small businesspeople feel economically strong enough to [...]
Why is Youth Sports on the Decline?
Talking with a Cranston dad after church, he mentioned that our local Little Leagues are taking a hit in terms of enrollment, and have a smaller batch of teams this year. I wondered if the trends went further than just Cranston and found this article: Participation in youth sports on the decline | SouthCoastToday.com. As [...]
American Suburbs: Quiet, Safe, and Poor
You will notice a lot of “For Sale” signs on houses in our neighborhood and pretty much any neighborhood in Cranston. A quick look at the Zillow map for Cranston says there are 538 homes for sale or rent in the city. Let’s hope we can pull ourselves up by our bootstraps and become the [...]
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