Essential Workers Die First on the Job

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04132020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans     The reports of pandemic deaths of essential workers are harrowing.  A lot of attention, deservedly, has been given to healthcare workers of all kinds who are living and breathing the virus in emergency rooms and intensive care units.  Others are also falling like flies.  …

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Some Changes the Coronavirus Should Bring

ACORN ACORN International Labor Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/CN03272020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsPearl River     In the Age of Trump and the Time of the Coronavirus, there seems to be constant speculation about what changes in our society, habits, and government might be permanent given our collective experience.  Much of this is hyperbole.  One pundit argued that he went “to …

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Federal Penalties Coming to Middle South Nursing Homes for Care Failures

Ideas and Issues

New Orleans       There are few lobbies as powerful as the nursing home owners’ groups in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi.  All of which makes the intervention of federal rules extending some of the same accountability standards that hospitals now face, welcome news.  The fact that the penalties go right to their pocketbooks is even better …

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