Arkansas at the Bottom of the Barrel for Tenants

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Ideas and Issues

New Orleans        Reading the press release from the Arkansas Legal Services Partnership, there was no doubt that a significant victory for tenants had finally been won.  Arkansas had long been the only state that still criminalized evictions for tenants.In other words you could be evicted by the landlord filing criminal charges on you for not …

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Nonprofit Hospitals Are Going to Have to Prove They are Not Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care Ideas and Issues

Little Rock     For many top executives and CEO’s it easy to imagine that running a big urban nonprofit hospital has been a sweet gig.  Looking at some of the 990’s that all nonprofits submit to the IRS annually, salaries in the millions are not unusual at some of these big hospitals and many make millions …

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Duplicate Dues Enrollment Should be Standard Operating Procedure

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Ideas and Issues Labor Organizing

Little Rock   Reading about the second battle of Wisconsin between labor and Governor Scott Walker and his Republican colleagues, who four years ago stripped public workers’ unions in that state of the ability to collect agency fees or “fair share” payments in lieu of dues for representation, it seems they are making short work of …

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