New Orleans The Baltimore City Council joined other cities in passing an ordinance requiring that on city contracts of $300,000 or more 50% or more of the workers needed to be hired from the ranks of city residents. Baltimore wanted to tackle statistical unemployment of almost 10% and unemployment in many of its lower income …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Citizen Wealth Still Reeling from Recession Unless You Are Rich
New Orleans Looking at the soaring stock market and the touts’ claims of an improving housing market and corporate profitability, I would have hoped that what I call “citizen wealth” or the average family’s overall income security would have also come back strong. So far, not so much. A big part of the problem …
Walmart, the Environmental Criminal, Too
San Pedro Sula Walmart was very good some years ago at trying to split progressive ranks by pretending to care deeply about its environmental footprint even as it rough handled its workforce by underpaying women, busted unions, and settled millions of dollars for practicing wage theft. They were going to listen supposedly. They were going …