New Orleans Since the Republicans cannot realistically repeal the Affordable Care Act, one of the long predicted and now emerging fights in the new Republican Congress is over the definition of hours as a way to dilute the employer mandate to provide coverage. Currently under Obamacare anything over 30 hours per week requires coverage and …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Where are People’s Needs in Modern Life Dominated by Computers and Machines?
New Orleans Every year for the last number of decades I have saved my vacation so I can take off the last two weeks of the year. This began when we had children of course, as our lives began to revolve around the competition between their school schedules and our work requirements. This year I …
Hope in an Unlikely Place: Obama’s White House
New Orleans These days it’s simply the better course of both valor and discretion to face a new year with trepidation, especially when it comes to the national political horizon. We’re facing some bad business and constant attacks to the progressive forces with the Republicans in ascendancy both in Congress and the majority of the …