Miami It’s hard to keep up. Thirty years ago one of the core ACORN issues in those days of fuel shortages and rising electricity and gas bills was utility rates. We campaigned extensively for what we called “lifeline” utility rates which would especially benefit lower income customers and people with fixed income. The way it …
Month: February 2007
Maverick Money
Miami I was in Washington last week and I had shanghaied Brenda Muniz, ACORN’s Legislative Director, with me to meet with the top staff members of the Homeland Security Committee of the House of Representatives. Now that Bennie Thompson from Mississippi was head of the committee, I was hopeful that there would finally be someone …
Rock Still Falling
New Orleans The annual figures on labor’s decline were released recently, and the news was uniformly bad. Union membership fell by 326,000 workers to 15.4 million bringing the overall “density” to 12% from 12.5% in 2005. Private sector unionization continues to fall precipitously. We are now down to 7.4% matching the lowest numbers since 100 …