Lessons from the South for 2020

National Politics

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11182019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      It may be too early to make a definitive list of lessons learned from the off-year elections in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Kentucky, but the one thing that seems crystal clear is that the Democrats have some hope, the Republicans have some deep worries, and …

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Raising Minimum Wages, Good So Far

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11172019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       While much of the country is stuck at the level of the federal minimum wage, there are enough states and cities that have nudged the numbers up that economists and others are starting to be able to tell with certainty whether the competing claims …

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The NFL is Out of Control and Football is Failing

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/CN11162019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       There is no danger whatsoever that anyone will start calling American football the “beautiful game,” which is sometimes the expression used internationally for what the world sees as football, which we call soccer.  Football is earning the moniker of the “deadly” game for its …

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