New Orleans Maybe there’s some hope for job applications from different sides of the fence in fighting the employment obstacles created by prescreening for job applicants in a coincidental conjoining of problems for former felons and professionals, white shoe job applicants where both get screwed and left on the curb and out of work. Who would …
Category: Financial Justice
Small Employers and Nonprofits Caught in Healthcare Bind
New Orleans Talking to small employers about the health care exchange has been a slog, and it doesn’t look like it will get that much easier soon. The numbers are also somewhat daunting in the aggregate. Businesses with fewer than 50 workers don’t have to provide coverage under the mandate. They employee 34 million people …
Policing Internet Rip-offs are a Problem Demanding a Fix
New Orleans There are standard internet rip-offs, like the scams offering suckers millions being held just for you or my favorite recent one from the representative of the head of the International Monetary Fund. There are the popular ones where a friend is stuck in Timbuktu and needs you to wire money somewhere so they can …