New Orleans We’ve got Elizabeth Warren speaking up for consumers and the “little people” in the US Senate. We used to have Sheila Baird pushing back hard on the banks for some accountability. Maybe I’ve been missing this, but it seems like suddenly Edith Ramirez, the chairwoman of the Federal Trade Commission, has decided it’s …
Month: January 2015
The Fight over Hours is a Surprising Conservative Endorsement of Obamacare
New Orleans Since the Republicans cannot realistically repeal the Affordable Care Act, one of the long predicted and now emerging fights in the new Republican Congress is over the definition of hours as a way to dilute the employer mandate to provide coverage. Currently under Obamacare anything over 30 hours per week requires coverage and …
Where are People’s Needs in Modern Life Dominated by Computers and Machines?
New Orleans Every year for the last number of decades I have saved my vacation so I can take off the last two weeks of the year. This began when we had children of course, as our lives began to revolve around the competition between their school schedules and our work requirements. This year I …