New Orleans No matter whether you care who is the mayor of Chicago or not, and believe me it is a factor in an important and hot contest between incumbent and former chief of staff for both Clinton and Obama, Rahm Emmanuel, and challenger Cook County Commissioner Jesus “Chuy” Garcia carrying the flag for progressives …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Smaller Units, Common Spaces, Affordable Land, and Housing
New Orleans Recently we had one of those magical moments of organizational synergy when a new member working at the Gulf Coast head start facilities where we have a contract, signed up with Local 100 and her address indicated that she lived on Texas ACORN Street. We were excited because those streets in ACORN Glen, …
More Handles Emerging to Force Accountability for Nonprofit Hospitals
New Orleans No matter what the Supreme Court decides this summer, there is little question that to secure more health care protection for lower income families, particularly in the resister-states that continue to refuse to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, we are going to have to push so-called nonprofit, tax exempt hospitals …