Our popular and free Introducing Progress & Poverty session will be presented on three Tuesdays this month, August 12, 19th and 26th. Any session will provide an overview of the main concepts in the Progress & Poverty book, in which Henry George identifies the principal reasons why poverty persists even as technical progress massively increases …
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(And what’s this mess with tariffs?): Introducing Progress and Poverty
Our popular Introducing Progress & Poverty session will be presented on two Tuesdays this month, May 13 and May 20. Either session will provide an overview of the main concepts in the Progress & Poverty book, in which Henry George identifies the principal reasons why poverty persists even as technical progress massively increases our capability …
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March introductory sessions, classes
The popular “Introducing Progress & Poverty” session will be presented on two Tuesdays this month, March 18 and March 25. Either session will provide an overview of the main concepts in the Progress & Poverty book, in which Henry George identifies the principal reasons why poverty persists even as technical progress massively increases our capability …
Starting 2025 at the Henry George School
If you’re concerned about problems of poverty, lack of opportunity, and declining quality of life in Chicago and America, and hoping for a better future, you should attend our Introducing Progress & Poverty session on Tuesday, January 14, 5:30PM. Perhaps you already knew that these problems aren’t unique to our time, but were recognized in …
September 19 session focuses on housing
Another session of Introducing Progress & Poverty has been added to our schedule, with a focus on housing. We’ll start with a brief talk by Urban Environmentalists Illinois. Part of the YIMBY movement, they are are people working towards a future of cities and towns with abundant housing, work and play only a short bike or …
Summer Term 2024 Schedule
!!Please note location and access details at the bottom of this post!! Introducing Progress and Poverty Repeats three times this term Thursday, May 30, 5:30 – 7:30PM Thursday June 6, 5:30 – 7:30 PM* Thursday June 13, 5:30 – 7:30 PM In his 1879 masterpiece Progress & Poverty, Henry George proposed to end poverty by recognizing …
Getting into the habit of thinking — Introducing Progress and Poverty
One of our graduates observed that our Progress and Poverty course “helped me get into the habit of thinking, and not just accepting things.” If you’d like to gain that habit, or even if not, you might enjoy discovering some important ideas with Introducing Progress and Poverty. For folks who have the day off on Monday, …
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Introducing Progress and Poverty
We’ll present Introducing Progress and Poverty 1 PM Sunday August 21 2022 ( Rogers Park Public Library, 6907 N Clark St, Chicago Illinois) and 6:15 PM Thursday September 15 (333 S Wabash Ave #2700 northeast corner of Van Buren St, Chicago Illinois) as the first session of the 10-week Progress and Poverty course. Please note …
Suburban Living for Most of Us: Evolution of Residential Development in Chicago’s Western Suburbs
David A. Wilson Video from Zoom Webinar David Wilson, author of the forthcoming book Towns Along the Q, will discuss the consequences of certain disastrous and discriminatory housing policies that he has become familiar with in the course of researching the topic, development of Chicago’s western suburbs along the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railway. Use …
Has Illinois been able to reverse its worst-in-the-nation budget trends?
Video from Zoom Webinar Illinois has some of the nation’s top pension debt and decades of irresponsible budget-making. Another session of the General Assembly has come to a close. Were legislators able or willing to make progress in finally addressing these decades-old long-standing issues, or were they once again swept under the rug and put …
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