New Orleans There was a front page story in the Wall Street Journal about the fact that more and more of the remittance business from banks and money transfer organizations like Western Union and MoneyGram is between countries in Latin America rather than from US and Canadian immigrants to Latin America. Western Union in 10 …
Month: November 2013
Social Enterprises as New Types of Nonprofit For Profit Companies
New Orleans According to Professor Steven Davidoff of Ohio State more than one-third of the states now have a special designation for corporations wanting to establish themselves as social enterprises. In Louisiana, they are called L3C corporations meaning Low Profit Limited Liability Corporations. I read Davidoff’s “Deal Professor” column in the New York Times with …
The Low Percentage Odds for Short-term Victory for Fast Food Workers
New Orleans In a somewhat perplexing article by Arun Gupta on fast food workers organizing featured in the December issue of In These Times, once the reader was able to get past the obvious, his feinted surprise, and anonymous ex-organizer interviews about recent fast food worker organizing (that these are publicity strikes, that they are …