New Orleans Payday lenders could not operate without the collaboration of the big money center banks. They are financiers providing the dollars being lent in predatory fashion to desperate lower income families. They are also the loan collectors by facilitating drafting from borrowers’ accounts to service the loans for the payday lenders, sometimes on multiple …
Category: Financial Justice
Part-time Employment Discrimination
Little Rock We represent lots of part-time workers and sometimes even fulltime work schedules feel part-timey with a 35-hour regular workweek or less. Where 30 years ago, there was a straightforward definition of part-time as 20-hours or less, over the last decade we have to constantly fight employers to prevent defining the workweek at less …
When Will We Recognize Direct Care Worker Crises
New Orleans Most people – and politicians – don’t recognize the real contributions of direct care health workers until their lives or the lives of loved ones depend on them. And, when I say, depends on them, I mean for everything from mobility, to feeding, to bathing, to the most basic and private needs that …