New Orleans When talking about the gig economy, a gig is defined as a short-term job, a little something extra even though we have come to find that for some workers all of their work is composed of a series of gigs. Musicians famously called their collection of jobs gigs, but that didn’t mean they …
Month: April 2019
Related Party Transactions Tripping Up the NRA
New Orleans When it comes to full on violence, the NRA is not “Game of Thornes” or “Barry.” The National Rifle Association (NRA) likes its guns, but tends to be more of a “throw the rock and hide the hand” operation. Nonetheless, it’s caught now in its own crossfire that erupted at its national …
Minimum Wage Gaps Growing
New Orleans There are twenty-one states where workers are still frozen at something equivalent to the federal minimum wage at $7.25. Those states are disproportionately better “red than fed” in the South and West with a smattering in the Midwest and even the Northeast. I’m not saying there are any surprises here, but the …