Desiree Evans
Articles by Desiree
July 24, 2009 -
I grew up in a small, rural town in southwest Louisiana. At the time I went to high school (and it's still the case today) black kids and white kids had separate proms. All the black kids went to the "official" school prom, in a streamer-filled high-school gymnasium, and all the white students threw their own separate prom across town in a party space paid for by their parents.
July 24, 2009 -
U.S. workers earning minimum wage will see an 11 percent increase in their wages starting July 24 when the national minimum wage rises to $7.25 an hour.
July 22, 2009 -
In what is being cal
July 21, 2009 -
Post-Katrina New Orleans has become the center of a national effort to protect migrant day laborers from wage theft.
