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Raising and Indexing the Federal Minimum Wage

New Orleans   There was a picture in the New York Times claiming to be Dan Cantor (sure didn’t look like him?) of the New York State Working Families Party who was advocating an increase in the state minimum wage.  Jen Kern, a career minimum wage expert as former coordinator of ACORN’s Minimum Wage Resource Center [...]

JP Morgan Chase Rip and Run with State Government Help in Louisiana

New Orleans   Joe Nocera starts his column in today’s New York Times with a story of running into Jamie Daemon, Chase CEO, who rhetorically asks the elevator crowd, “Why does the New York Times hate banks?”  Yeah, I wish, but back to Nocera, he responds that that everyone hates banks and gives credit card collection [...]

Social Security Breakthrough for Honduran Informal Workers at Home & Abroad

Our friends from COMISAJUL sorting coffee samples for us to take home for roasting

Tegucigalpa     We were fortunate to get an extraordinary meeting with Hector Hernandez, sub-director of the Honduran Institute of Social Security.  His willingness to meet with us on a Saturday morning in a hotel lobby spoke volumes for both the government and ACORN [...]

Sick Days, Taxes, and Street Theater at Moonstone

Talking Citizen Wealth & more at Moonstone in Philly

Philadelphia     What used to be a dead zone not far from Center City in Philadelphia was hopping on a Friday night with people all over the streets as I was dropped off in a mad rush from the airport as Jasmine Rivera, the regional organizer for [...]

Clean Rivers, Working Families, and Big Ideas

Some of our group in Pittsburgh, oldest leader still in the fight at 102

Pittsburgh     Hit the United Association of Labor Educators conference running in Pittsburgh and then connected with Maryellen Hayden Deckard, former ACORN office director in Pittsburgh now doing the same for ACTION United.  In no time we were visiting with CWA and other [...]