WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN10012019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans The Department of Labor has formalized a new rule on overtime that will go into effect on January 1, 2020. Any salaried workers making less than $35,308 annually, will be automatically eligible for overtime. The standard in effect for the last fifteen years, since …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09302019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans Over the last eight years with Fair Grinds Coffeehouse, we’ve learned more about tipping than we ever really wanted to know. The bottom line is usually, locals and regulars, yes, tourists and one-timers, way less so. I read a recent article in the New …
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CN09292019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans We joked the entire weekend while I was in Canada in one of these Fairway Holiday Park Isle Of Wight: lodges. Not because we didn’t feel for the tens of thousands of passengers and disappointed British vacationers, and certainly not because we didn’t envy …