New Orleans Even as the stock market sets new highs week after week, the warning lights are lit up on the problems in the housing markets. We noticed two things recently of interest in the Wall Street Journal. First, delinquencies are rising. The top markets reflecting the biggest increases in the rate of delinquency were …
Category: Financial Justice
Low Wage Worker Battlegrounds
New Orleans We are on the countdown now. Having toiled in the vineyards almost two years in the wake of the surprising statewide minimum wage increase victory in Florida in 2004, we are now almost to “raise day” for low wage workers on November 7th in Arizona, Ohio, Colorado, and Missouri. Our avowed enemies even …
A New Business Model for Wal-Mart?
New Orleans Wall Street analysts need to put our WARN (www.warnwalmart.org) on speed dial. Reading the Wall Street Journal over the last week, as they speculated on whether or not big investors could convince the company to concentrate on “same store” sales and other stock enhancements, we could have told them in advance that Wal-Mart …