New Orleans The headline, sound bite from the Oxfam report, “Working for the Few: Political Capture and Inequality,” released on the eve of the World Economic Forum for the rich and business elite at Davos, Switzerland, was the fact that 85 individual super-rich have as much citizen wealth as half of the world’s population. Indeed, …
Month: January 2014
Weaker Unions Mean Less Racial Equality
New Orleans As great as it is to finally see some increasing attention being paid to the issues of inequality that have been so many decades in the making, perhaps not enough attention is being paid to the critical role of unions in bridging the inequality gap, especially when it comes to the critical issues …
No Place for Young Men: Why Snowden Can’t Get a Fair Trial in the USA
New Orleans If you read the editorial pages of Rupert Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal, they pretty much want to hang Edward Snowden from the nearest tree for his tsunami level leak of documents about the National Security Agency’s spying work on just about everyone from standard issue citizens of the United States to heads of …