New Orleans In the breathless and world shaking tone common to television and radio broadcasts, economists were trying to parse the numbers in the federal report on jobs and wages for February. Growth was almost nonexistent at 20,000 new hires, and there was a lot of “he-say, she saying” back and forth on that. …
Month: March 2019
Want More Overtime? Raise Pay in the South and in Retail!
Little Rock The Department of Labor has issued its revised rulemaking proposal on overtime eligibility for nonexempt workers. A federal judge in Texas had halted the Obama administration’s efforts to move the number from $23,660 to double that amount at $47,476 annually. Instead, the current proposal would move the number to $35,308 based on 2017 …
David West and the NCAA
Little Rock Let me start with some full disclosures. In our house, we’ve always been David West fans. Flat out with no apologies. Who is David West? Well, he was until very recently a 6’9” forward in the National Basketball Association. In our house we lived and breathed the days when it looked like Chris …