New Orleans Walmart has learned so little from the pathetic dissembling they have mastered in trying to push off any responsibility for the hundreds of fiery deaths in their subcontracted sweatshops in Bangladesh and elsewhere that they are now going to use the same tactics to respond to complaints in the United States. Their strategy …
Month: January 2013
India Combines Benefits and Banking for the Poor
New Orleans There’s something interesting happening in developing countries around welfare benefits that is very important now: they are increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of their direct cash welfare programs as the income and wealth of their countries improve. This is not to say that we are knocking on the door of a real solution …
Grading the 3-Day a Week New Orleans Newspaper Experiment
New Orleans Three months have now passed since the New Orleans Times-Picayune made national news with its shocking announcement that they would no longer publish a daily paper, but would put out a print edition only three days per week (Wednesday, Friday, & Sunday), and count on their web page for survival. Shortly thereafter the …