Little Rock The President in his fifth State of the Union address said that he would issue an executive order raising the minimum hourly wage for workers employed under federal subcontracts to $10.10 per hour, the same number that he and many others have been advocating on the stair step proposal for the federal minimum …
Category: Financial Justice
Connect the Dots: Attack the Navigators While Wall Street Runs up the Tax Preparers
Dallas You know how it is. Deep down, you know that there is going to absolutely be “cause and effect,” but sometimes it’s hard to connect the dots. Well, it may have just gotten easier to understand the widespread state by state attacks on navigators assisting in the enrollment for the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare …
Predators Cashing in on the Wild West of the Internet
New Orleans The on-going fight against predatory and payday lenders is becoming a whack-a-mole operation. Every time we put a cap on them in one state or province or another, too many of them just jump on the internet and charge whatever they want wherever they want, including of course places where such charges are …