Little Rock I’m no friend of Steve King, the nine-term Republican Congressman from the 4th District of Iowa, hard in the northwestern part of that state. Heck, I got a camera ticket on the interstate going through Sioux City some years ago and refused to pay it, largely because of King and all he represents. …
Month: January 2019
Time to Make a Deal on the Federal Minimum Wage
New Orleans The following is my guest blog on the Working Class Perspectives site run by Professor Sherry Linkon of Georgetown and Professor John Russo, formerly of Youngstown State University in Ohio and now visiting scholar with the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and Working Poor, also at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. The federal minimum …
New American Leaders
New Orleans With all of the deserved celebration and whoopsie-do about the historic diversity of the newly elected Congress, talking to Sayu Bhojwani, the founder and director of the New York-based nonprofit, New American Leaders, on Wade’s World seemed as right on time as these new representatives themselves. Sayu made some interesting points that …