San Jose It’s official now. Starting December 1st, a bit more than six months from now, salaried employees making less than about $47,000 per year or $913 a week will be eligible for overtime pay at time-and-one-half of their effective hourly rate. The last adjustment in 2004 was a bit over $23,000 or $455 per …
Category: Financial Justice
Is Squatting Back? No, It Never Stopped!
New Orleans There was a breathless article in the New York Times with a Las Vegas dateline purporting to have found something new under the sun, at least the desert sun, and the discovery was squatters. The sources attesting to the fact that the sky was falling and the horror of it all were, unsurprisingly, …
Is Their Hope for Obamacare?
New Orleans A federal court somewhere gave new hope to the haters that the subsidies the Affordable Care Act to lower income families might be blocked. The Administration says they will win on appeal. But, this is only one cloud of many in the building thunderstorm. Insurance companies and those that follow them …