New Orleans The FCC, thankfully, is moving forward on a new rule that many believe will preempt the fact that a patchwork quilt of legislation has emerged in twenty different states to block the efforts of cities to create their own broadband networks. We’ll watch closely how this developed. Susan Crawford, the Harvard professor, who …
Category: Financial Justice
Underpaying Servers Cannot Be Solved by Tipping Technology
New Orleans Because the restaurant industry has dominated the lobbying process around past efforts to raise the federal minimum wage in the US, servers, bartenders, and others who receive tips are not paid the current minimum of $7.25 per hour as a guarantee, but have to hustle that wage from a base of $2.13. Despite …
Mutual Aid for the Rest of Us
http://www.kabf.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/wadesworldjan30.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Maybe it’s because it’s the season? Not winter, but the season in the sense that “for every time there is a season,” as the psalm records. In this season, thinking about friends, comrades over decades of mutual struggle por la causa, and family who suddenly …