Is the Gig Up or Down?

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

New Orleans      With statistical unemployment below 4% for the first time in years, economists, policy makers, politicians, and self-interested hucksters have found something new to throw statistics at each other backwards and forwards:  is the gig economy growing or slowing?  At many levels one might say it depends on who you ask.  At another level …

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Momentum Building against Wage Theft

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Labor Organizing

http://www.kabf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wadesworldfeb28.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts New Orleans    Increasingly I get the feeling that there is real momentum building against the standard operating procedure of company’s ripping off their workers on wages.              The courts are not necessarily the workers’ friends on these issues though.  For example a recent ruling against steelworkers …

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The New Economy, Older and Part-time Workers, and Fulltime Exploitation

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

Missoula   With the truck brought to the curb with transmission problems, I found myself in this small, university-based town for the weekend.  Looking for a guy who knew mechanics, I walked through a Saturday farmers’ market near the river that was jumping with young families and children with strollers abounding and smartphones crushed to their …

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