Labor Department Gets on its Knees for Gig and Other Companies

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09232020corrected.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsGreenville       If the current administration remains in office in 2021, don’t be surprised if they float a proposal to move the Labor Department over to the Commerce Department as one of its smaller divisions.  These days with every new proposed rule they seem to see their mission …

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DOL Takes Paid Leave Away from Low Wage Healthcare Workers

Health Care

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09222020corrected.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans     This is complicated, so hang with me, but here is what you need to know. Nursing home workers and other frontline healthcare providers like home health aides, and community home workers for the differently able account for perhaps the largest portion of the death …

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The Vultures Are Circling the Housing Market

Foreclosure

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/CN09212020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans      Following right behind the crisis that tenants are facing with the eviction situation clouded in different courts and interpretations and no stimulus in the offing, mortgage holders are in a similar mess as the pandemic depression lengthens.  REITs and private equity operators on Wall …

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