Little Rock Something big is happening among drug companies. They aren’t exactly on the run, but they are at least feeling the heat, so there may be hope for the rest of us. Let’s look at how the evidence is starting to add up: Turing Pharmaceuticals and its CEO have become the face of exploitation …
Month: March 2016
Surely These Old Codgers Can Stop Age Discrimination
New Orleans There’s nothing easy about getting old, but as everyone says, it’s still better than the alternative. Increasingly there seems to be an emerging crisis that older people and older workers may run out of money way before they run out of time. Given the huge demographic bulge of the baby boomers, if there’s …
Inequality Infection is Spreading North to Canada
New Orleans In Halifax, the ACORN Canada head organizers were meeting in a large open space in the former orphanage where we have our office on the third floor. The space is used for everything from board meetings to yoga classes making it truly multi-purpose. Looking out the window I could see down to the …