Looking at Metropolitan Areas for an Understanding of Declining Union Strength

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Labor Organizing Organizing

New Orleans   More than a decade ago I spent a lot of time with Joel Rogers, longtime professor of law, sociology, and political science at the University of Wisconsin, analyzing the fact that cities and metro areas were still the last bastions of union strength, and that was where we needed to make our stand.  Some …

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Employer Facilitated Workplace Loans Skirting Payday Loan Restrictions

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Ideas and Issues

New Orleans     A bunch of payday lenders skirted state by state bans on payday lending by offering their predatory products directly through the internet.  New York State and some others are suing to stop these practices, but as soon as one snake’s head is cut off, another one seems to crop up and one of the …

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