New Orleans The fight to guarantee accountability of nonprofit, tax exempt hospitals to their responsibilities to “do no harm” and operate for charitable purposes may have a new rule from the Treasury Department and the IRS requiring such care, but it seems we also have a “wanted” poster for one of the bad guys in …
Category: Financial Justice
Plenty of Good Proposals for Replacing Payday Lending
New Orleans Enough of the negative, let’s go positive and not just talk today about how predatory payday lenders are and how they are ripping off lower income families and trapping them in a vicious spiral of debt, but instead look at the ideas and institutions that are doing something different. Let’s start with Senator …
On-Demand Uber and Lyft Fiction Going Down in the Courts
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/01_things_i_never_said.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The simple standard for workers when asked the question “Who do you work for?” is clear. If a worker answers, myself, then maybe they are an independent contractor. If they answer Uber or Lyft or any other company, then it’s pretty clear they are employees. …