Disabled People Are the Canaries in the Coal Mine
The disabled community has responded to the adversities they face by organizing for legal rights that protect their autonomy and access to public life. But these rights are increasingly under attack.
Some remarkable honesty about the class (although of course without using that term) dynamics of capitalism showed up in Saturday’s NY Times, in a piece by Richard Thaler about mortgage defaults:
Read the rest here.
An interesting detail from the piece is that in a number of states mortgages are “nonrecourse” by law, meaning the lender is entitled to the house but nothing else in case a borrower defaults. So borrowers in those states basically have the right to walk away, a right for which they pay an estimated $800 extra in closing costs per $100,000 borrowed.