http://www.kabf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wadesworldfeb28.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans Increasingly I get the feeling that there is real momentum building against the standard operating procedure of company’s ripping off their workers on wages. The courts are not necessarily the workers’ friends on these issues though. For example a recent ruling against steelworkers …
Category: Financial Justice
For Tenancy to be an Alternative, Renting Has to Work
New Orleans One of the many unresolved issues from the Great Recession, still painfully winding down, is whether or not it is time to call the dream of home ownership for low-and-moderate income families a tragic mirage. Having wiped out a generation of increased ownership among African-Americans and Hispanic families, and lacking a concerted funding …
Is it Time to talk about a Backlash against Women?
New Orleans What is going on these days? Seems like everywhere we turn there are attacks on women in what seems a backlash against the self-satisfied progress we had hoped we were making. The International Labor Organization finds that there is no country where women have achieved pay equity with men. This includes even …