Hope for Reunification January 8, 2009 St. Petersburg Getting on the plane to fly home, I ran into some old friends who were the principal officers of the International Longshoreman Association in New Orleans. They had been at a bargaining conference in Tampa preparing for upcoming negotiations. We talked about what happened to their …
Month: January 2009
Tax Credits for Poor Workers St. Petersburg Talking about citizen wealth yesterday (and, yes, I’m fixated on this subject, because it’s also the subject of my book coming out this June, called: Citizen Wealth: The Campaign to Save Working Families, it seems when Obama came courting to Washington on Monday, he also threw out …
Don’t Blame Hispanic Homeowners
Don’t Blame Hispanic Homeowners New Orleans There was an incredible and irresponsible article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday by Susan Schmidt and Maurice Tamman called “Housing Push for Hispanics Spawns Wave of Foreclosure” in which once again there is an effort to blame the folks at the bottom for the mistakes at …