New Orleans Many of us live where we live, where work has brought us, or where family keeps us. Maybe we live where we have come to love the land or the local culture? Maybe we live where we managed to hang on to a house or bought a small piece in a patch where …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Anti-Union Forces Leaving the Courts and Statehouse to Hit the Doors
New Orleans The assault on unions is getting very personal. The legislative and legal attacks are part of the environment of constant struggle between unions and companies of course. People try to talk about America as a classless society, but when it comes to the labor-management tussle at work and in community, the class struggle …
Crisis in Home Ownership for Working Families and Minorities
New Orleans Something big is happening in housing. Maybe big and bad. Maybe big and unknown, but scary in its uncertainty for the future. Here are the facts that frighten. Home ownership dropped again in the last quarter of 2016 and when it did so, it fell below 63% to the lowest level in …