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 …
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No End to Recession without a Solution to Housing Crisis
New Orleans I’m going to keep this short and sweet, and the message will be clear. The economy in the USA is showing some signs of improvement. More jobs are coming into the statistics. The President is getting a bounce in his step. This is all good news. Obama will have trouble winning without these …
Domestic Workers Pushback as Citizen Wealth Advances
Tegucigalpa What are the odds that as we talk about achieving living wages and income security as a central theme of Citizen Wealth that in successive days there are surprising stories of domestic workers winning or holding on to higher wages in both Brazil and Saudi Arabia? Admittedly, it is hard to organize a parade …