New Orleans Study after study details the fact that with 45 million Americans employed in low-paying service sector jobs paying usually minimal wages for often part-time hours in a period of almost record low unemployment hovering around 4%, work in this age of excruciating inequality is simply not enough to get a family out of …
Category: Health Care
Now is the Time to Press Hospitals for Community Benefit Agreements
New Orleans Community benefit agreements have increasingly become part of the conversation in cities throughout the country when it comes to major developments at the intersection of private interest and public authority, regulations, and landholding. Few large cities under assault from major and minor sports interests to support stadium projects have not found themselves …
Surprise, High Health Deductibles Defer Treatment and Kill People!
New Orleans Sometimes the gap in understanding the impact of wealth differentials, or what in the old school we called class differences, is so stark that it just blows the top of my head off. An example today in The New York Times was so clear that it forces me back to beating a drum …