New Orleans As the countdown to enrollment in ACA comes closer with October 1st ringing the opening bell, low to moderate income families and workers without health insurance are facing a quandary of competing claims and conflicting news reports. I read a report recently of a call from the White House to various groups including …
Category: Financial Justice
Limited Bandwidth for the Poor is not Just an Internet Issue
New Orleans The fact that ACORN International has been fighting hammer and tong in Canada and other countries and with Local 100 United Labor Unions in the USA with Comcast, Time-Warner, and Cox to expand internet access to lower income families might have been what led me to notice an article about “bandwidth for the …
Union Density Pays: Finally Overtime for Home Health Care Workers…Soon!
New Orleans Our first steps in the direction of organizing lower wage workers into worker associations which might lead to what unions started 35 years ago when household workers who were also called domestics or maids were finally able to be paid the federal minimum wage. I moved from Little Rock to New Orleans and …