New Orleans Senator Charles Schumer from New York actually has a good plan which would substantially build citizen wealth: having the government give every child a $500 saving account at birth, matching it along the way with individual savings, and making it tax-free, so that at maturity, there would be a real increase in individual …
Category: Citizen Wealth
US and Canada Minimal Wages
Silver Springs We are at the time of the year when finally some minimum wage workers get a raise. Praise be! This is the last scheduled increase since the 2007 amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act. For those of you who can’t remember, here’s a reminder from the DOL website: The 2007 amendments increased …
Banks Piling On
New Orleans There just seems to be no shame among most of the nation’s big banking institutions. Despite their recklessness and greed that frog marched us into a semi-great depression, they continue to aggressively resist all movement to reform their ways and now are fleecing us more heartily than ever before with charges that fairly …