Kawakawa A couple of years ago after extensive research Social Policy published two extensive studies focusing on rural electric cooperatives in all of the southern states and their lack of diversity and democracy. We didn’t throw the rock and hide the hand. Labor Neighbor Research & Training Center and its Rural Power Project sent a …
Category: ACORN
Raising the Minimum Wage and Lowering the Maximum Wage
Kawakawa, New Zealand After decades of organizing to raise the minimum wage at the local, state, federal, and international level and winning more battles than losing, it is still frustrating to see the inequality gap increasing in country after country, as we continue to be ignored in Congress with a frozen national minimum wage and …
Poverty Safari
Kewakawa, New Zealand I’d seen a positive review of Poverty Safari: Understanding the Anger of Britain’s Underclass by Darren McGarvey, so I put it on my list for vacation reading. My interest was particularly piqued because he was focusing on Glasgow, Scotland, where our organizing is making strong progress, and I had recently spent time …