New Orleans Talking to Professor Adam Seth Levine of Cornell University on Wade’s World about his new book, American Insecurity: Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Inaction, about how our political and organizational communication can subvert our own message or “self-undermining rhetoric” in his words, I asked him for his opinion about how the Administration “sold” …
Tag: ACA
More Handles Emerging to Force Accountability for Nonprofit Hospitals
New Orleans No matter what the Supreme Court decides this summer, there is little question that to secure more health care protection for lower income families, particularly in the resister-states that continue to refuse to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, we are going to have to push so-called nonprofit, tax exempt hospitals …
Walmart Dropping Part-timers Maybe a Win for 30,000 Workers
New Orleans I stand second to no one as a critic of Walmart’s employee and labor relations policies, but it’s hard for me to join the boo-bird chorus about the company’s latest Scrooge-like action in dropping part-time workers averaging less than 30 hours per week. The company just may have done most of them a favor …