Because I’m one proud teacher…

Please, if you have a moment, go to the blog written by students in my COMM4500 class (a senior seminar at University of New Haven). At the beginning of the year, I had each student write down what they knew about wealth and income inequality. Some were pretty well informed, and some, not so much, but …

Is your name in the Panama Papers?

Then shame on you. Under the whole “render unto Caesar” thing, while there are laws that allow skipping the paying of taxes, is it entirely moral to do so? From the National Priorities Project, here’s a chart to help you understand where at least some of your taxes go: Knowing that, when corporations and individuals put their …

Check out what my #COMM4500 students are doing.

We are writing a blog about wealth and income inequality and I’m really proud of the work they’ve done so far. We’re six weeks away from the end of the semester, and I’ve promised the students that if they can hit 10,000 views by semester’s end, they’ll get pizza. Tell all your friends — even if it’ll cost …

Hope to see you at Bridging the Gap: A Dream Deferred

Festivities start in one hour at Memorial Hall on Central Connecticut State University’s New Britain campus. This is the cap of a semester spent looking at wealth and income inequality through the prism of race. We’ll have students’ work on display, a light meal, and then we’ll all settle in to listen to Tim Wise. …

Check out my CCSU class’s inequality blog

Right here. The class, COMM 345, Writing for Electronic Media, is studying wealth and income inequality through the prism of race. We’re capping the semester with a Bridging the Gap event on campus,  and you’re invited: 5 p.m., a buffet dinner 5:30, live judging of students’ work (writing, photography, videography) 7, keynote speaker Tim Wise, …

Should 40 hours be sufficient?

Bernie Sanders put this on Twitter yesterday: If you work 40 hours a week, you have a right not to live in poverty. I just started teaching COMM 345 at Central Connecticut State University on Monday afternoon. It’s a writing course where we explore wealth/income inequality through the prism of race. We’ll be discussing this …

So where will we be when Baltimore “calms down?”

Back to “business as usual?” Back to an unquiet calm that’s waiting for the next indecent shooting, the next wrong traffic stop, the next harassment? (For the broader view, read this by the great Ta-Nehisi Coates, of The Atlantic, and this year’s Stowe Prize winner. He writes, of his watching his native city: Now, tonight, …

Teen pregnancies/abortions fall, though not much in the U.S.

Though teen pregnancy rates and the number of abortions have fallen in the U.S. and elsewhere, the U.S. still leads the world in teen pregnancies among 21 countries where data is gathered on such things, says a new Guttmacher Institute study. From the press release: The authors note that U.S. teens face low societal acceptance …