Silver Springs We are at the time of the year when finally some minimum wage workers get a raise. Praise be! This is the last scheduled increase since the 2007 amendments to the Fair Labor Standards Act. For those of you who can’t remember, here’s a reminder from the DOL website: The 2007 amendments increased …
Category: Financial Justice
War Against Child Labor
New Orleans The International Labor Organization declares today the Day of the War against Child Labor. I posted pictures from the BBC website of child workers from India, thinking about the waste pickers we are organizing there. This was on my mind because Judith Francorsi, an Australian journalist now living in Mumbai, asked me about …
Poor Give More
Ocean Springs The poor are more generous that the rich, and in fact the poorer you are, the more likely a larger portion of your income is given to others. For the poor experience drives empathy and action. For the rich it turns out that talk is in fact cheap. Quoting from Frank Greve of …