Remember Bush’s Medicaid Expansion? Same Problems with Obamacare!

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care Ideas and Issues

Ocean Springs    News analysts are already noticing some shifts in the dogmatically ideological opposition of the Republicans to Obamacare as they come to grip with the fact that despite a plethora of problems, two million people are likely to start the new year, 2014, enrolled under the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare with millions more to …

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People Analytics are a Scaring Part of the Hiring Future, but…

Ideas and Issues

Ocean Springs, Mississippi    Another article in the holiday reading pile was a piece in The Atlantic called  They’re Watching You at Work.  The reporter, Don Peck, reviewed the current utilization of “big data” to create something that big company human relations departments were calling “people analytics.”   In a nutshell these outfits are crunching the information they …

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Employer Facilitated Workplace Loans Skirting Payday Loan Restrictions

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Ideas and Issues

New Orleans     A bunch of payday lenders skirted state by state bans on payday lending by offering their predatory products directly through the internet.  New York State and some others are suing to stop these practices, but as soon as one snake’s head is cut off, another one seems to crop up and one of the …

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