New Orleans A lawyer for the Southern Poverty Law Center named Jim Knoepp found a way to get my attention when he was quoted in a story about potential employment discrimination between United States workers and immigrant farm labors, saying, “Think of trash collection. That’s not very appealing, either. But if you offer decent wage …
Month: May 2013
Lack of Competition Could Cripple Cost Savings from Health Reform
New Orleans The hope that the new Affordable Care Act (ACA), or Obamacare as it known, will reduce costs is based on the belief that there will be more competition by creating state insurance exchanges where all companies will participate. This will force lower costs as the insurance companies try to win the business of …
Citizen Wealth, the Movie
Little Rock We’ve talked about “crowd sourcing” as a method of using the power of many to come together collectively to make something happen. Most recently I’ve written about trying a “citizen journalism” project at KABF to put audio-files on-the-air of what people in the listening area believe is community news. Earlier, I’ve written about Ushahidi …