New Orleans I can’t tell if we have a widening gap in the way big employers see health insurance or a huge opportunity to finally get coverage for lower waged workers. A week or so ago, I talked about a potential bargaining opportunity for lower waged workers for 2014 before penalties apply to larger companies …
Month: September 2013
Millennium Village Projects, Internet Access, and Understanding the Poor
New Orleans As the gap between rich and poor widens, there is huge confusion from the uppers about what in the world are the lowers thinking and doing. I read an article the other day about the controversy in South Africa over a young family with two children who moved into a house in the …
Syria and Summers Prove the Power of No
New Orleans The progressive forces can suddenly count coup on the Obama Administration over two issues in the matter of recent weeks for both economic progressives and anti-war advocates. The irony of having a Nobel Peace Prize winning President caught in a web of his own weaving and left with only military options in …