New Orleans No matter what the Supreme Court decides this summer, there is little question that to secure more health care protection for lower income families, particularly in the resister-states that continue to refuse to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, we are going to have to push so-called nonprofit, tax exempt hospitals …
Category: Financial Justice
Privatizing State Universities? Start with the Football Team!
New Orleans Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s quixotic quest for the Republican nomination for President has pretty much disappeared in the throes of his budget and taxes regime over two terms that has virtually bankrupted the state in general and almost decimated the public higher education facilities in Louisiana. He is not alone, since the …
Arkansas at the Bottom of the Barrel for Tenants
New Orleans Reading the press release from the Arkansas Legal Services Partnership, there was no doubt that a significant victory for tenants had finally been won. Arkansas had long been the only state that still criminalized evictions for tenants.In other words you could be evicted by the landlord filing criminal charges on you for not …