Archives for November, 2011
How the new poverty measures stack up
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Kat Aaron, project editor of our ongoing What Went Wrong: The Betrayal of the American Dream series, will be interviewed today at noon on The Kojo Nnamdi Show on WAMU-FM 88.5. Earlier this week, Aaron wrote about how the new poverty measures were constructed and what they revealed.
Tuesday elections show labor still a force
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
While off-year elections rarely garner headlines, national attention had been drawn to yesterday's vote on Issue 2 in Ohio. The measure sought to repeal State Bill 5, passed with Republican support in March, which prohibited striking by public employees and limited the subjects of collective bargaining for public employees. Labor unions in ...
Slumlords in New Haven taking Section 8 cash
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011
Photo by Neena Satija. Diamond Properties Managment told Nicole Dennis and her family not to cover up this hole because maintenance would do it. They haven't. Loose lending standards over the past decade had many implications, not just for the average homeowner but for those who used them to exploit ...
Day of action in Oakland
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Occupy Oakland has gained national attention because of contentious exchanges between protestors and police. While labor unions expressed solidarity with the movement through a “mass day of action”, some labor contracts contain no-strike clauses. Vanessa Rancano writes in the Oakland Local: Richard Mead, president of the International Longshore and Warehouse ...
