New Orleans Fast food workers in New York State got some great news after a three year campaign. The wage review board set up by Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced, as expected, that it will recommend a $15 wage for many fast food workers in New York State. The increase, once approved will stair step …
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Foote Homes: Better to Rehab than to Destroy – The Paradox of HUD Programs
Memphis After a 30-year HUD led program to obliterate public housing in the USA, there probably isn’t any more quixotic campaign than to try and save the “last public housing project in Memphis,” as Robert Lipscomb, head of the Memphis Public Housing Authority calls the 497 unit Foote Homes, but there I was huddled in …
NYC Bureaucrats Administer Citizen Wealth Setback
New Orleans New York City announced that it was ending its experimental program called Opportunity NYC Family Rewards that had offered cash incentives for achieving modified behavior from poor families. From the article it seems that the failure of the City of New York to modify its behavior was the real story here, rather than …