Momentum Building against Wage Theft

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Labor Organizing

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 …

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For Tenancy to be an Alternative, Renting Has to Work

ACORN International Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure

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 …

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