New Orleans According to Professor Steven Davidoff of Ohio State more than one-third of the states now have a special designation for corporations wanting to establish themselves as social enterprises. In Louisiana, they are called L3C corporations meaning Low Profit Limited Liability Corporations. I read Davidoff’s “Deal Professor” column in the New York Times with …
Category: Citizen Wealth
The Low Percentage Odds for Short-term Victory for Fast Food Workers
New Orleans In a somewhat perplexing article by Arun Gupta on fast food workers organizing featured in the December issue of In These Times, once the reader was able to get past the obvious, his feinted surprise, and anonymous ex-organizer interviews about recent fast food worker organizing (that these are publicity strikes, that they are …
Western Union and Others Turning Over Remittance Info to CIA
New Orleans It’s hard enough for immigrant families to deal with the predatory cost structure and indifference of regulators to best practices in making money transfers or remittances to their families in their home countries, but now it also has been revealed that the records of these transactions are also another part of the vast, …