New Orleans John Bouman, the President of the Sargent Shriver Poverty Law Center based in Chicago was my guest on Wade’s World recently on KABF/FM talking about a number of subjects but especially the handles for pushing nonprofit hospitals to provide care for lower income families as part of their nonprofit status and especially their federal …
Category: Financial Justice
Wages Up but How High is Fair?
New Orleans Walmart has announced that over a half-million of its workers will get a raise to $9 now and up to $10 sometime in 2016 at the cost of one-billion dollars. This is good news, so I won’t remind people of the Pinocchio stories the company has told for years about its so-called average …
“Swear Jars” Are Great Public Policy
New Orleans Senator Elizabeth Warren from Massachusetts is getting a bit of ribbing from the Fox News types out there for her proposal to create the equivalent of a “swear jar” for big drug companies when they are paying fines for illegal activity and other violations. What a great idea! Over the past decade, big …