By JAMES TARANTOIn the olden days, Frances Fox Piven was a cutting-edge social theorist of the hard left. In a 1977 book, she and her husband, Richard Cloward, argued “that the poor and unemployed are so isolated from the levers of power in America that their greatest potential impact is to withhold ‘quiescence in civil life: they can riot,’ ”... Read more
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Bankruptcy for States? BAD!
January 24 | Posted by mrossol | Party PoliticsBankruptcy to escape their debt load? Not such a good idea, these letter writers suggest… ========= David Skeel’s one-size-fits-all bankruptcy option for states (“A Bankruptcy Law—Not Bailouts—for the States,” op-ed, Jan. 18) presupposes that all state pension funds are in the same financial sinkhole. Nothing could be further from the truth. While many states have failed to meet their pension obligations, New York... Read more
