“Economists study and analyze poverty in their nice offices, have all the statistics, make all the models, and are convinced that they know everything that you can know about poverty. But they don’t understand poverty.” —Manfred Max-Neef
Way-way too much in the education news for me to crank out one single column. That’s coming up. For now — Just one state gives us a peak into the STATE of affairs for the USA. Cutting Head Start. We are ending as a culture, albeit a long and protracted ending, with so-so much pain for the 80 percent and so-so much glee and gout for the One Percent and their Little Eichmanns. We have no one to blame but the media, politicians, education system (at the top) and the lusty consumerists. At least more and more of us are coming together now through these hit-and-run measures, the so-called “cuts and deaths by a thousand sequesters.” What kumbaya for the poor of us, for the precariate class, for the sliding toward oblivion us in the lower rungs of