By Richard Marcantonio, Public Advocates Inc., for CarsonWatch
ProPublica’s Alec MacGillis has drawn back the curtain on the assault by corporate profiteers on...
Month: May 2017
The Trump Administration’s Troubling State of Mind
This week President Trump released an immoral budget, which amounts to a wholesale attack on working families and...
CarsonWatch Statement on Trump Fiscal Year 2018 Budget
We join many in cities, suburbs and rural communities across the country who are appalled and alarmed by the deep budget cuts...
Marriage as the cure-all to poverty? That’s what Sec. Carson thinks.
Cities and urban communities across the country are in the midst of a housing crisis. As the cost of living rises and median incomes shrink, more working-class...
Carson Has the Wrong Prescription to Fight Poverty
By: Kalima Rose, PolicyLink
HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s ongoing listening tour has provoked deep concerns from those working to expand opportunity in all...
Kushner Expects Handouts For Jersey City Development, Activists Respond With Evict Trump-Kushner
By Richard Marcantonio, Public Advocates Inc., for CarsonWatch
The cuts Trump proposes to vital HUD programs and...
If you’re poor, Sec. Carson doesn’t think you deserve to be comfortable in your own home
Did you know --
A couple of weeks ago, while touring an affordable housing complex in Columbus, Ohio on his Listening Tour, Secretary Ben Carson lamented the...
Infamous “Sharia Law Mayor” Joins Trump Admin
Beth Van Duyne, the mayor of Irving, Texas, took to Facebook to announce her appointment as Regional Administrator for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Southwest...
Whoopi Sounds Off On Secretary Carson
“It just feels, Ben, like you’re kinda blaming poor people for being poor.”
Whoopi Goldberg, spurred by Secretary Carson's latest round of unsettling comments while touring...
Why CarsonWatch Isn’t Celebrating the FY17 Budget Deal
Friends,
This week, Congress will avoid a disastrous government shutdown with an agreed upon budget compromise that will...