New Orleans Talking to small employers about the health care exchange has been a slog, and it doesn’t look like it will get that much easier soon. The numbers are also somewhat daunting in the aggregate. Businesses with fewer than 50 workers don’t have to provide coverage under the mandate. They employee 34 million people …
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Politics are Local, but Impact is National
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/wadesworld24.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The old saw that “all politics are local,” has a lot of merit, but added up, the impact in national. That is alternately both a depressing and hopeful sign in the tea leaves still gathering from the midterm election. The Republicans took the Senate. Impossible …
Policing Internet Rip-offs are a Problem Demanding a Fix
New Orleans There are standard internet rip-offs, like the scams offering suckers millions being held just for you or my favorite recent one from the representative of the head of the International Monetary Fund. There are the popular ones where a friend is stuck in Timbuktu and needs you to wire money somewhere so they can …