Washington It’s not spring here, but finally there is a briskness in peoples’ step. Tomorrow there is a major rally for heath care reform called by Health Care for America Now (HCAN), and on Sunday, March 21st, the forces in favor of comprehensive immigration reform are rallying, praying, and marching on the Mall, hopefully with …
Category: Financial Justice
Fake Job Searches
New Orleans Two weeks ago we talked about the fact that guest workers might start to get some justice. New DOL regulations are requiring that companies actually look for workers locally before being able to pull migrants in from foreign lands, and they are going to have to pay them more. I saluted the effort, …
Small Shareholders Unite! Moxy Vote?
New Orleans There is no better example of the “theory” of democracy versus the practice that what you find in looking at non-existent voice of shareholders in modern corporations. The biscuit-cookers, as an Arkansas mogul famously called them, who own 30% of the shares of public companies are lucky in most cases to be afterthoughts. …