New Orleans I stand second to no one as a critic of Walmart’s employee and labor relations policies, but it’s hard for me to join the boo-bird chorus about the company’s latest Scrooge-like action in dropping part-time workers averaging less than 30 hours per week. The company just may have done most of them a favor …
Category: Financial Justice
Blacklisting by Banks
New Orleans The Federal Consumer Protection Bureau is looking into the issue of “blacklisting” by banks when some consumers try to open checking accounts. If you are lucky, you may ask, what are they talking about, aren’t banks in the business of providing customer service through individual checking accounts? Oh, child, you are …
Inclusionary but Unaffordable “Affordable” Housing in London
London In the dark days of neo-liberalism when cities and states are embracing private developers to impact their profound public responsibilities to provide decent and adequate housing for families regardless of income the whole notion of so-called “affordable” housing seems to have been left in the rubbish at the construction site. Where recently we thought …