New Orleans We told you so! We just couldn’t be heard clearly enough over the roaring engines of the corporate spinning machinery of Walmart in September 2005. Let’s set the stage exactly. In Florida at the sharp point of the organizing engagement at Walmart as the curtain was being pulled down by all of the …
Tag: New York Times
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 …
JP Morgan Chase Rip and Run with State Government Help in Louisiana
New Orleans Joe Nocera starts his column in today’s New York Times with a story of running into Jamie Daemon, Chase CEO, who rhetorically asks the elevator crowd, “Why does the New York Times hate banks?” Yeah, I wish, but back to Nocera, he responds that that everyone hates banks and gives credit card collection …