New Orleans Wal-Mart learned yesterday in the Minnesota courts that minutes matter to workers as well as the company. After seven years state courts held that the company played fast and loose with rest breaks, meal breaks, training time, and about any other way that they could cheap the workforce. They …
Category: Personal Writings
Hoarding Food
New Orleans The global crises in rising food prices makes it clear how far away we really are from a global solution or program to deal with hunger and subsistence feeding programs for the poor around the world. Coupled with the increase in fuel costs which in many places is driving the pressure on …
Global Poverty and Evangelicals
New Orleans Jim Wallis of Sojourners said something to me a week ago in Detroit that struck me as very interesting. Frances Fitzgerald, the esteemed author and sometime contributor to the New Yorker made a similar point in the recent issue in a piece called, “The New Evangelicals.” Jim was mentioning this …