Little Rock People can read the reports of banks cutting back on small business lending, nod, and say, but, hey, I don’t have a small business. Others can understand that banks make even fewer small personal loans and have surrendered that market to payday lenders and other predatory shysters, and say, hey, it will never …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Opting out of Workman’s Compensation
New Orleans Given all of the effort of the techies to promote the so-called “gig” economy and create a permanent class of part-time, on-call workers with few to no benefits, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that some of the big boys have already found loopholes allowing them escape clauses for compensating their …
Redefining Employment Status Is Just Exploitation by Another Name
New Orleans Tech lobbyists, led by Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are now spending almost as much as the automobile industry on Washington, DC lobbyists. That’s not good news for the rest of us. A lot of the lobbying, according to recent reports, at both the federal, state, and local level is from Uber and the …