Seeing the Cat

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Poverty's Cause

• Dr. McGlynn's Lesson from the 1886 New York City Election Jul 5, 2023
• Congressman Maguire's speech on Chinese Exclusion - October 13 & 14, 1893 — and the remedy Sep 3, 2020
• Monkeys and Men Aug 22, 2020
• Squirrel Island Aug 21, 2020
• Government and Revenue Mar 31, 2020
• Our Opioid Crisis — a thought from Frances Willard, of WCTU Oct 29, 2017
• A Poem of Political Economy — likely J. W. Bengough, from 1887 Sep 11, 2017
• 1884-11-19 Henry George on what St. Paul might think of contemporary society Dec 8, 2013
• The Charitable-Industrial Complex Jul 27, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 16 — Proudhon Jan 16, 2013
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: Undecimber 12 — Cushman Jan 12, 2013
• Thomas Shearman: The Coming Billionaire (1891) Jan 8, 2013
• Shearman: The Distribution of Wealth, Part II (1887) Jan 7, 2013
• Shearman: The Distribution of Wealth, Part III (1887) Jan 7, 2013
• Henry George, on intemperance, liquor taxes and poverty Jan 7, 2013
• Tom Johnson, on the Earth, and privilege Dec 19, 2012
• Individual Account Retirement Plans: An Analysis of the 2010 Survey of Consumer Finances | EBRI Oct 27, 2012
• Harpers: Monopoly is Theft Oct 25, 2012
• Our Daughters and Sons, and Opportunity Oct 24, 2012
• Chrystia Freeland: Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else Oct 21, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 16 — Plutarch Oct 16, 2012
• Born Yesterday Oct 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 9 — Sir Walter Scott Oct 9, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 9 — Sir Walter Scott Oct 7, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 5 — Spencer Oct 5, 2012
• On Wages, from an 1887 weekly ... and relevant in 2012 America Oct 2, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: October 2 — Jefferies Oct 2, 2012
• The Church(es) in Politics Sep 15, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 12 — Grant Allen Sep 12, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: September 8 — Sir Thomas More Sep 8, 2012
• A Right-to-Life Platform — 125 years old Aug 22, 2012
• Doughnuts Defeating Poverty - NYTimes.com Jul 5, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: June 19 — John Stuart Mill Jun 19, 2012
• An Address to the Churches (1899) May 27, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 30 — Henry George Apr 30, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 23 — Simon Newcomb Apr 23, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 20 — Gerald Massey Apr 20, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 13 — Jefferson Apr 13, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: April 1: Queen Elizabeth's Prayerbook Apr 1, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 27 — Paine and Penn Mar 27, 2012
• The Revolutionary Tendencies of the Age Mar 22, 2012
• Bob Andelson: An Open Letter to Pope John Paul II Mar 19, 2012
• The Earth-for-All Calendar: March 11 - Pope Gregory the Great Mar 11, 2012
• To fight the effect, while feeding the cause ... and our laws Mar 7, 2012
• Shalom and Taxation Feb 3, 2012
• Today's economic problems aren't new Jan 8, 2012
• Taxes kill jobs Dec 27, 2011
• Social Problems Dec 18, 2011
• The Superficial Reformer Dec 4, 2011
• Charity or Justice: How We Treat the Poor Dec 3, 2011
• Young Men and Their Opportunities - 1896 and today Dec 2, 2011
• How to End Poverty - YouTube Nov 15, 2011
• Who are the Criminals? — Henry George, Jr., 1901 Nov 4, 2011
• 0-0-0-0-100 Oct 15, 2011
• Frances Willard, anti-poverty activist Oct 4, 2011
• Pen's Parade: do you realize we're mostly dwarves? Feb 21, 2011
• Public Ownership of essential utilities Feb 10, 2011
• An early ad for The Landlord's Game Jan 23, 2011
• Play "Brer Fox an' Brer Rabbit," a UK version of "The Landlords Game" (Monopoly) Jan 23, 2011
• Progress, Charity, — and Justice Jan 16, 2011
• 1915 Commission's report and 2011's scenario Jan 8, 2011
• What Tolstoy Taught: The Great Iniquity Nov 28, 2010
• What Tolstoy Taught: Human Rights Nov 28, 2010
• David Cay Johnston: Call Their Bluff, Mr. President Nov 25, 2010
• The Case Plainly Stated Nov 22, 2010
• James Love's paragraph summary of Progress and Poverty Nov 20, 2010
• God bless the child that's got his own Nov 13, 2010
• Khosla, Sun Co-Founder, Uses Capitalism to Help Poor Oct 15, 2010
• Private equity firms eyeing Yahoo Oct 15, 2010
• Could a Peanut Paste Called Plumpy'nut End Malnutrition? - NYTimes.com Sep 5, 2010
• The End of Poverty? Think Again! Aug 24, 2010
• Learning To Get Out Of The Way « Aldous Huxley | This I Believe Aug 15, 2010
• Michael Hudson: The Road To Serfdom (2006) Aug 9, 2010
• David Stockman - Four Deformations of the Apocalypse Aug 7, 2010
• Stimulating the Well-Off to Stimulate the Economy Aug 6, 2010
• Joe Stiglitz: the people are being cheated and the economy is getting poorer Jul 29, 2010
• The Woodpeckers' Tree System Jul 23, 2010
• Why Do People Become Terrorists? Jul 1, 2010
• A Neuroscientist, Nature and Nurture, and America's Children in Financial Distress Jun 30, 2010
• Tackling America's Drug Addiction Jun 24, 2010
• The Prayer of the Landless Jun 18, 2010
• The Landlord's Prayer — Archer's version Jun 18, 2010
• William Allan's Landlord's Prayer Jun 18, 2010
• What an Estate Looks Like to the Taxman Jun 14, 2010
• Is Our Tax System Helping Us Create Wealth? Jun 5, 2010
• What's the real cost of living, in Pennsylvania? Jun 4, 2010
• The Labour Problem ... population? or something else? May 30, 2010
• Wealth Concentration, Income Concentration and the Economy May 30, 2010
• When 2+3=6, who is entitled to the "extra" 1? Apr 27, 2010
• 47 percent Apr 26, 2010
• Crosby: Democracy Apr 21, 2010
• Crosby: God's Gift (a poem) Apr 21, 2010
• NYT LTE's: It Happened on Wall St. and Main St. Apr 9, 2010
• Bits and Pieces from a 1914 Bi-Monthly Apr 9, 2010
• Mine! All Mine! Apr 8, 2010
• America's Wealth Distribution — 2007 — Wealth Concentration, Part 1 of 3 Apr 2, 2010
• America's Wealth Distribution — 2007 — Wealth Concentration, Part 2 of 3 Apr 2, 2010
• America's Wealth Distribution 2007 — Wealth Concentration — part 3 of 3 Apr 2, 2010
• For India’s Newly Rich Farmers, Limos Won’t Do Mar 30, 2010
• Moses Mar 30, 2010
• Land in Manhattan Mar 19, 2010
• How Is The Distribution Of Wealth Determined In The United States? Mar 11, 2010
• Is "chasing the bad guys" the highest good? Mar 9, 2010
• Paring the Deficit, by Selling Part of the Radio Spectrum Mar 7, 2010
• U.S. Plans New Measure for Poverty Mar 7, 2010
• Looking Forward Feb 14, 2010
• The Monkeys Disgrace Feb 14, 2010
• 2009Q4 Labor Underutilization Problems of US Workers by 2008 Income Decile Feb 13, 2010
• Which part of a house is unaffordable? Feb 12, 2010
• The House of Tranquillity: A "Middle Class Agenda" Feb 10, 2010
• "I Am For Men" Feb 3, 2010
• "The End of Poverty? Think Again" Jan 31, 2010
• The other Davos website Jan 30, 2010
• Why I Bother Jan 26, 2010
• Ben Stein's Farewell to C. Lowell Harriss, professor of economics - Dec. 29, 2009 Jan 22, 2010
• MLK: An edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring Jan 18, 2010
• Progress & Poverty is on Kindle Jan 16, 2010
• Wealth Concentration data Jan 11, 2010
• Children in Poverty, Children in low-income families Dec 26, 2009
• Another Retirement Study Nov 1, 2009
• Krugman: How Did Economists Get It So Wrong? Sep 4, 2009
• The Landed Gentry ... this time, in Pakistan Aug 18, 2009
• So is the Woodstock Generation going to fix America's most serious problems? Aug 13, 2009
• William Jennings Bryan, on liberty and future generations Aug 5, 2009
• The Ethics of Sharecropping, Taxation ... and Theft Jul 23, 2009
• The Just-Getting-By Cost of Living in West Virginia in 2009 for young families Jun 24, 2009
• Getting By in Oregon: How Much Does It Take? Jun 3, 2009
• Thou shalt not suffer thyself or anybody else to be stolen from May 23, 2009
• Land and Freedom May 23, 2009
• Carpe Diem! Remembering Bob Drake, of Chicago May 14, 2009
• 1 in 5 Pennsylvania Families Lack Sufficient Income to Meet Their Most Modestly Defined Needs May 14, 2009
• Yertle the Turtle, and Tax Reform May 11, 2009
• Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us ... May 11, 2009
• An Hour with the BBC World Service May 11, 2009
• The Rich List: Easy Come, Easy Go? May 9, 2009
• The Rich List May 5, 2009
• Council of Georgist Organizations Conference: Cleveland 2009 May 5, 2009
• Neuroscience and social deprivation | I am just a poor boy though my story's seldom told | The Economist May 5, 2009
• People's Budget Day: the Centennial Apr 29, 2009
• Currents & Undercurrents, Rolling Tides, and Ponds & Streams Apr 12, 2009
• Payroll Taxes Apr 8, 2009
• About Land Value Taxation Apr 8, 2009
• Just What is Home Equity? Feb 25, 2009
• The 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances: Are we going to complain, or are we going to create the conditions which will improve things? Feb 16, 2009
• Child Labor in 1906; Child Poverty in 2009 Feb 15, 2009
• A Price for Existence Feb 15, 2009
• Equal Rights Feb 14, 2009
• The ‘W’ Word, Re-engaged - ["Welfare"] Feb 9, 2009
• Time to simplify ... and then end ... the federal income tax Feb 9, 2009
• How Might We Stimulate the Economy — at minimal expense? Feb 9, 2009
• Should Landlords Share in their Tenants' Profits? Should our Urban Landlords be Society's Big Winners? Feb 9, 2009
• Grocery Store Parking Lot: Sprawl in Microcosm Feb 5, 2009
• Statistics of Income: Mortgage Interest and Real Estate Taxes Feb 5, 2009
• Who do we mean when we say "Main Street?" Feb 5, 2009
• Sharecropping on Madison Avenue, NYC Feb 3, 2009
• Who is entitled to the economic rent on Bolivia's trove of lithium? Feb 2, 2009
• Slum Dog Millionaire, India and America Jan 25, 2009
• Cashing in on urban land value ... who is entitled to it? Jan 23, 2009
• Let Us Now Praise the Back Roads of Alabama Jan 23, 2009
• Susan Pace Hamill: The Vast Injustice Perpetuated by State and Local Tax Policy Jan 22, 2009
• NYT: Property Values - What You Get for ... $850,000 Jan 21, 2009
• Dumbest Thing Voters Did Jan 18, 2009
• The Landlord's OTHER Prayer Jan 17, 2009
• Father of the ecosystem: Joseph Priestley Jan 17, 2009
• The landowner and the taxpayer Dec 29, 2008
• The Foldvarium: How to Extirpate Poverty Dec 21, 2008
• Change.gov Dec 7, 2008
• Michael Kinsley on "Progress & Poverty" Dec 6, 2008
• Time to Tackle US Poverty? Dec 3, 2008
• hear, read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest Nov 29, 2008
• Taxes and Tolls Sought in Plan to Save M.T.A. - NYTimes.com Nov 29, 2008
• Trickle-Up Economics Nov 29, 2008
• Dying of Consumption - NYT Nov 29, 2008
• Tom Friedman, NYT 11/26/08 - All Fall Down Nov 29, 2008
• Leo Tolstoy — The Last Station — and Henry George Nov 18, 2008
• Wealth Concentration, Income Concentration, and Ups & Downs in Consumer Spending Nov 7, 2008
• Ben Franklin, technological progress and moral progress Nov 7, 2008
• A new film: "The End of Poverty?" Nov 7, 2008
• That acre in midtown Manhattan: $800 million — as a teardown! Nov 1, 2008
• Fareed Zakaria: How to Spread Democracy Nov 1, 2008
• Spreading the Wealth Oct 30, 2008
• Progress, and Poverty — how do they relate? Oct 28, 2008
• I'm not thrilled with our choices in November Oct 28, 2008
• Spreading the Wealth: Some kinds of wealth OUGHT to be spread! Oct 28, 2008
• We've made a secular religion of homeownership Oct 15, 2008
• The World Distribution of Wealth, part I: how does the US compare to the rest of the world Sep 28, 2008
• The World Distribution of Wealth, part II: Natural Resources and Ownership Sep 28, 2008
• When I am elected President ... Sep 26, 2008
• Those Shareholders who are being wiped out ... who are they? - or, "How's it trickling?" Sep 26, 2008
• We all contribute to rent. Some of us get to live off it. How does this fit with the notion that we are created equal? Sep 24, 2008
• He who sees the truth ... Sep 24, 2008
• A Budget is a Moral Document Sep 24, 2008
• Living paycheck to paycheck, living bonus to bonus, and trickle-down economics Sep 23, 2008
• An Election Season Thought Sep 22, 2008
• Productive loans, vs non-productive ones Sep 22, 2008
• A 21st Century Georgist in the Revised Common Lectionary Sep 22, 2008
• Pres. Bush is worried about people being able to send their children to college Sep 20, 2008
• The Big (and unnoticed) Winners in the Mortgage Crisis Sep 20, 2008
• Valuing life, and applying fiscal stimulus, and setting us all equal Sep 2, 2008
• What does an infant cost a young family? Sep 2, 2008
• Joe Stiglitz: Turn left for growth Aug 26, 2008
• Making Work Pay Enough: A Decent Standard of Living for Working Families Aug 26, 2008
• Why are the Working Poor Poor? Aug 26, 2008
• Technically Speaking, Market Analysis and Theory: Saturday AM Coffee: A Plethora of Choices, for Some Jul 20, 2008
• Mandela's B-Day message: Rich should help poor Jul 18, 2008
• Fannie & Freddie: Privatization of Gain, Socialization of Loss: Who Benefits? Jul 18, 2008
• The Housing Crash and the Retirement Prospects of Late Baby Boomers Jul 5, 2008
• Tax Analysts column: The Price of Civilization Jul 4, 2008
• Bill Gates: How Can He Best Use His Wealth and Influence to Help the World? Jul 3, 2008
• Be a good ancestor Jun 26, 2008
• David Cay Johnston doesn't get it — yet Jun 25, 2008
• Orthodox Anglicans hint schism, stop short of split Jun 25, 2008
• Thoughts for Barack Obama Jun 19, 2008
• Halving US Poverty in 10 Years Jun 19, 2008
• Democracy and Opportunity: A New Paradigm in Tax Equity Jun 18, 2008
• Luke Russert's tribute to his father: a new political party? Jun 18, 2008
• A Budget is a Moral Document Jun 16, 2008