New Orleans Walmart has announced that over a half-million of its workers will get a raise to $9 now and up to $10 sometime in 2016 at the cost of one-billion dollars. This is good news, so I won’t remind people of the Pinocchio stories the company has told for years about its so-called average …
Category: Citizen Wealth
“Swear Jars” Are Great Public Policy
New Orleans Senator Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts is getting a bit of ribbing from the Fox News types out there for her proposal to create the equivalent of a “swear jar” for big drug companies when they are paying fines for illegal activity and other violations. What a great idea! Over the past decade, big …
Oil Sacrifice Zone for Many is Home to Some
New Orleans Born in Laramie and raised in and around the West as a boy, it’s still a place of my heart and a taproot to my life, so I try to keep up as I travel along my winding roads and partly I do that by reading the High Country News. Flipping through an issue on …