New Orleans Sometime the daily papers are mined with shiny nuggets. Today in the Times was too rich a vein not to share. “I dare you to distinguish between a prostitute and a naked society woman.” From Heri Leclerc, lawyer for Strauss-Kahn on rich men’s prostitute scandal at Hotel Carlton de Lille. “Creating legislative reform …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Raising and Indexing the Federal Minimum Wage
New Orleans There was a picture in the New York Times claiming to be Dan Cantor (sure didn’t look like him?) of the New York State Working Families Party who was advocating an increase in the state minimum wage. Jen Kern, a career minimum wage expert as former coordinator of ACORN’s Minimum Wage Resource Center …
Continued Conservative Retrenchment in Catholic Anti-Poverty Fund
New Orleans Someone deserves credit, and I’m betting that someone is James Salt, the energetic director of Catholics United, for exposing the increasingly desperate, rightwing inspired, guilt-by-association style attacks on social change groups funded by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). The New York Times ran a front page piece about a Colorado immigrant …