Sorry, Economists! Governments are not Businesses. They are Nonprofits!

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08312019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       When someone from the very conservative, totally pro-business American Enterprise Institute feels it is necessary to remind people that a simple cost-benefit analysis was not necessarily appropriate when evaluating social programs, we have to wonder whether something is terribly amiss or at the least …

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Is SEIU Waving the White Flag for Workers?

Labor Organizing

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/cn08302019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock       The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is a great organization and with almost two-million members, the largest in the United States.  Its membership is diverse and anything but an entitled aristocracy of labor for the most part with somewhere between a third to forty percent …

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The Rigged Scoring on School Testing

ACORN Education Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/CN08292019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsLittle Rock       If the process of test scoring isn’t a national issue yet, it’s going to be.  Fire fights have erupted in community after community at all levels, because there is no consensus on either the tests or what they measure.   New York City is being hammered …

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