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Joel is a reformed conservative who abandoned conservatism when it became clear that the philosophy does not work -- at least for most Americans. Joel is now a progressive activist who lives in New York with his wife and children.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, November 24, 2008 New York's New Deal -- an open letter to Governor David A. Patterson
As Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman recently wrote, budget cuts at the State level undercut federal efforts to address the Great Depression. Let's not make the same mistake.