New Orleans It was a happy day for Cleveland Turner and his family as they finally got ready to move back home to St. Claude Court on the river side of St. Claude Avenue in the lower 9th Ward. It had been a job, but a unique partnership of ACORN, the United Auto Workers …
Category: Financial Justice
House Search
New Orleans It is unsettling after a generation in this work to run into evidence that many of the things we have to win in the future are issues that we had already resolved in the past. I was shocked yesterday to read that not only has San Diego County revived house-to-house searches targeting …
$5.85–Thank God I’m Alive
New Orleans On July 1st the federal minimum wage finally rose to $5.85 per hour. After 10 long years, the lowest wage workers in the country got a 70 cent raise. This is the first of several steps up the ladder that will put workers up to $7.25 over the next two years (July 1, …