New Orleans Some twelve million people may have enrolled under the Affordable Care Act, but that doesn’t mean that Obamacare can catch a break. Everywhere we turn there seems to be more potholes on the road. Of course there’s the decision due in June by the Supreme Court on whether or not subsidies can be …
Category: Financial Justice
Los Angeles Living Wage Move Might be a Game Changer for Some
Little Rock Lower wage workers might not be reading the paper, but it won’t take long before the word gets to everyone that Los Angeles, the nation’s second largest city, just took a giant leap forward by almost unanimously passing an ordinance to raise wages from $9 per hour where they stand now to $15 …
For Banks the Party Never Stopped
Houston Seven years after the wheels started coming off the bank’s mad money train, it seems clear that settlements for mortgage abuse, which is euphemism for fraud, Dodd-Frank legislation, and what should have been the awesome weight of having collapsed the US and world economy and upended the lives of millions, have essentially been water …