Op-Ed Contributor - Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor? - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Contributor - Is It Now a Crime to Be Poor? - NYTimes.com: "Maybe we can’t afford the measures that would begin to alleviate America’s growing poverty — affordable housing, good schools, reliable public transportation and so forth. I would argue otherwise, but for now I’d be content with a consensus that, if we can’t afford to truly help the poor, neither can we afford to go on tormenting them."