New Orleans A letter was faxed in the afternoon from Senator Charles Grassley, Chair of the Senate Finance Committee, to ACORN’s President Maude Hurd. It was 8 pages in length with about 60 questions asking for a world of information (a list of all ACORN employees, a list of all ACORN funders, and on and …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Low Wage Worker Battlegrounds
New Orleans We are on the countdown now. Having toiled in the vineyards almost two years in the wake of the surprising statewide minimum wage increase victory in Florida in 2004, we are now almost to “raise day” for low wage workers on November 7th in Arizona, Ohio, Colorado, and Missouri. Our avowed enemies even …
A New Business Model for Wal-Mart?
New Orleans Wall Street analysts need to put our WARN (www.warnwalmart.org) on speed dial. Reading the Wall Street Journal over the last week, as they speculated on whether or not big investors could convince the company to concentrate on “same store” sales and other stock enhancements, we could have told them in advance that Wal-Mart …