New Orleans Since the Republicans cannot realistically repeal the Affordable Care Act, one of the long predicted and now emerging fights in the new Republican Congress is over the definition of hours as a way to dilute the employer mandate to provide coverage. Currently under Obamacare anything over 30 hours per week requires coverage and …
Category: Financial Justice
More Evidence Emerging of the Big Banks Role in Mortgage Meltdown
New Orleans If there is anyone over the age of 10 years old that has any doubt that the pure and simple, unchecked greed of banks caused the mortgage meltdown triggering the Great Recession, please read, and listen carefully. Information now coming out on the dealings between Morgan Stanley, the Wall Street behemoth that acted as …
IRS “Safe Harbor” Allowing Tax Cheating and Wage Theft
http://www.kabf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/wadesworldnov142014.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans It’s not news that wage theft and the problems of mis-classification of workers as independent subcontractors is rampant. What I had not realized is how much of it was allowed directly by Congress and lax enforcement by the IRS. You think you know the …