New Orleans Our first steps in the direction of organizing lower wage workers into worker associations which might lead to what unions started 35 years ago when household workers who were also called domestics or maids were finally able to be paid the federal minimum wage. I moved from Little Rock to New Orleans and …
Month: September 2013
Punishing the Clinic Door Strategy in Texas and Florida at the Polls
Baton Rouge There is a desperate and cynical political strategy at work in the efforts of Florida Governor Rick Scott and Texas Governor Rick Perry in their attempts to bar people from the clinic doors trying to enroll under the new Affordable Care Act on October 1st. This Rick-o-say strategy will in fact ricochet on …
Republicans Declare War on Poor with Attacks on Food and Health
New Orleans We’re way across the line now. The place where we could have just shrugged and said it’s all just politics was many miles ago. I’m not sure what it is but the Republicans have plain and simply declared war on the poor. It’s not just that they can’t stand them. It’s gone …