New Orleans Buried in my stacks of old papers have been some nuggets of gold, and one was an op-ed written by Peter Buffett in the Times entitled “The Charitable-Industrial Complex.” Buffett is identified as “a composer and a chairman of the NoVo Foundation,” but is clear that what gets him a seat at the …
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Good Jobs Nation, 4C, and DOL Wage Determination Appeals
New Orleans One of the things I missed while on my work-cation in Montana was the emergence of a newish labor-backed workers advocacy organization called Good Jobs Nation. The unions backing this play are SEIU, Teamsters, and the Farmworkers, all members of the Change To Win (C2W) federation, as was the UFCW, another supporter, until …
Phil Gramm, Architect of Sequester and Recession, Looks for Someone Else to Blame
New Orleans Phil Gramm, the former Texas Senator and head of the Senate Banking Committee from 1995-2000, wrote a “pin the tail on the donkey” piece in the Wall Street Journal trying to find someone other than himself to blame for the Great Recession. The piece was almost unintelligible, though the headline and the first …