New Orleans Like many progressives I get frequent solicitations from Change.org about this petition or that petition for this cause or that cause. I’m not a big petition signing guy, just because it’s time I don’t really have and a tool that is not the first to my hand, but I monitor it all to …
Tag: ACORN
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 …
Little Rock Reminders of the Shoulders Where We All Stand
Little Rock One of the interesting things about a city the size of Little Rock, and perhaps one of the little understood secrets of ACORN’s growth and success there after its founding in 1970, is that it is just big enough to be a city and just small enough that you can fairly easily see the …