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Kudos to my nonprofit consulting colleagues Campbell and Co. for sponsoring a study by the Indiana University Center on Philanthropy to determine the impact on giving of increased marginal tax rates and a cap the charitable-giving deduction. While some of us have been arguing that both of these moves toward social justice should be supported [...]
Archive for the ‘Most interesting thing I learned today’ Category
October 27th, 2011
Category: 501(c)(3), charity, Income distribution, Most interesting thing I learned today, NonProfits, Policy Analysis, Taxation
May 14th, 2011
Like Mark, I attended the Yale Globalization Center conference on drug policy organized by President Ernesto Zedillo and Professor Jody Sindelar. The most interesting thing I learned from the panels and participants is that the attention of the U.S. public regarding drugs is focused on debates that don’t matter much for our friends south of [...]
November 6th, 2009
Category: History, Most interesting thing I learned today
Hume debunks the still-received story.
April 3rd, 2008
Category: Built Environment, Commerce and its discontents, Most interesting thing I learned today, Urban policy
L.A. would be great if not for the billboards. That, and teenagers driving Hummers. Oh, tourists, also.
March 25th, 2008
The new PM of Pakistan is being sworn in, in English. Sounds odd. Apparently, Urdu is the national language and the language of the Constitution, but English is the official language. I understand that there’s a lot of resentment against native Urdu speakers and the dread Indian influence, but almost everyone understands Urdu, whereas only [...]
March 10th, 2008
I think “to Spitzer” will soon be a verb.
March 6th, 2008
Category: Most interesting thing I learned today
Not what we’d like it to mean, according to Rob MacCoun.
