New Orleans As Congress gets ready to come back to work, there are top-of-the-list items involving lower income families, including extension of unemployment benefits, protecting food stamp appropriations, and of course the ongoing fight for enrollment in Obamacare. Once again the nasty subtext in the debate will continue to be the ongoing theme that the …
Category: Financial Justice
Technology versus the Poor
New Orleans With herculean efforts along with extensive field work and mega expenditures of dollars and political capital, www.healthcare.gov works better now to the degree that about 2 million people weathered the storm to sign up under the new Affordable Care Act with millions more expected hopefully before March 31st. I use the words “works better” …
Working Families on the Move
New Orleans Luckily we were able to catch up with Dan Cantor on Wade’s World this week. Dan is the national director of Working Families now after spending most of the last fifteen years as executive director of the Working Families Party of New York. The WFP, as it’s known, garnered a lot of attention …