Occupational licensing limits access to middle class jobs
“Our occupational licensing laws are out of control. We need to fix them.” So said blogger Andy Koenig in a wonderful essay entitled “It Takes 890 Days to become a barber in Nevada,
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We Need Walkable Communities For Mobility and Access
Many American communities do a poor job providing mobility for the elderly, the disabled and families with children in strollers. My wife and I are visiting her Dad in Naples, Florida, where he
Healthcare is Broken but Fixable
Our healthcare system is broken, but fixable, as I learned from meeting with George Halvorson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Halvorson], an exceptionally visionary healthcare leader. He wrote an incredibly insightful book
Political Issues Have Gotten Too Complex
Many critical political issues are so complex that they are incomprehensible to even the best-educated voters. Moreover, well-educated voters also realize that, to influence lawmakers, they require so much effort that they disengage,
The Xerox Announcement
The recent Xerox announcement that it will split into separate hardware and service businesses illustrates the challenge of reinventing a company that has a declining core business, as Xerox and Pitney Bowes do,
NAACP Stamford Speech
January 18, 2016 - Union Baptist Church, Stamford, CT - Keynote for Martin Luther King Birthday Breakfast I want to thank the NAACP, the Stamford Community Collective, the Stamford Youth Foundation and the