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Marty Levine August 15, 2021 The rich get richer and the rest of us get ignored. That’s the disturbing theme that emerges from three stories that appeared in my...

Marty Levine August 11. 2021   In the fall of 2016, Kalamazoo, Michigan was not unique. It, like cities larger and smaller, was faced with large budget shortfalls and...

It is hard to find someone in politics whom you feel that you can truly trust. It is rare to find someone who is going to speak truth to...

Marty Levine 8/9/21 We have just received a new picture of our nation’s health care system from a new Commonweal Fund report, Mirror, Mirror 2021: Reflecting Poorly.  Remember, this...

Marty Levine 8/4/2021 Last week I questioned whether private philanthropy was able to handle the pressing societal challenges we face. A study commissioned by the Urban Institute that was...

Carole Levine   August 3, 2021 The good news is that the economy seems to be rebounding after the pandemic. The Washington Post reported that the U.S. economy has fully...

Marty Levine 8/3/2021 In city halls, school Board rooms, state legislatures, and even in the halls of congress debates over policies and practices that affect every aspect of lives...

Marty Levine 7/29/21 Recently Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy published its review of long-term trends in our nation’s charitable giving, “The Giving Environment”. Analyzing data from four...

Marty Levine 07/22/2021 It is so easy for a country to brand itself a democracy, to say it is committed to the human rights of its residents, and to...

Carole Levine   July 18, 2021 Times are tough. There’s nothing new in that statement and certainly the events of the last few years – the COVID-19 pandemic, racial unrest,...