New Orleans As the international work percolates along let me share a couple of notices on campaigns that are stirring in Toronto in an exciting campaign that is leverage political strength to win tenants rights and of course our on-going effort to force there to be accountability in India before there is an relaxation [...]
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New Orleans The draconian back door assault on citizen wealth continues as the impacts of new credit rules ripple through mortgage market and deny motivated – and qualified – buyers access to loans. A quote in the Times today is revealing: “Stuart Fraass of Guaranteed Rate Inc. ‘If you’re self-employed, you have virtually no [...] New Orleans Here’s a shocker. The one piece of the stimulus package that everyone seems to agree is working is Obama bump in the food stamp program. Furthermore, the success is such that there is real discussion now in Congress about giving the program another bump. Now we’re talking about citizen wealth meaning real income [...] New Orleans Senator Charles Schumer from New York actually has a good plan which would substantially build citizen wealth: having the government give every child a $500 saving account at birth, matching it along the way with individual savings, and making it tax-free, so that at maturity, there would be a real increase in individual [...] Silver Springs An interesting byproduct of providing some support on capacity building to organizations in the DC/Baltimore areas has involved my being sent to re-education camp to learn more about the vast, sprawling suburbs that dominate this area of the country. For the life of me I have to learn how to distinguish one row [...] Silver Springs It’s the time of year when the Organizers’ Forum (www.organizersforum.org) begins to send out the call for the international dialogue to community and labor organizers who are interested in learning about the work of their counterparts in other countries and sharing their own experiences. This year the board has approved the international dialogue [...] Silver Springs We are at the time of the year when finally some minimum wage workers get a raise. Praise be! This is the last scheduled increase since the 2007 amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act. For those of you who can’t remember, here’s a reminder from the DOL website: The 2007 amendments increased the [...] |
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