by Pat Hartman | Sep 16, 2014 | Uncategorized
L.A. Mission Thanksgiving Last week, House the Homeless remembered the good work Robin Williams did on behalf of people experiencing homelessness, but forgot to mention the outstanding gesture he made some years ago, described here by...
by Pat Hartman | Sep 9, 2014 | Uncategorized
Let’s talk about something nice for a change — like how a beloved show business figure quietly carried out his own plan for making the world a better place. When comedian and actor Robin Williams died last month, some of the media coverage concerned his activism...
by Pat Hartman | Sep 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
Last time, House the Homeless considered the inability of small shareholders to influence corporate policy, including executive pay packages. In related news, the Economic Policy Institute gave some statistics about American companies during a...
by Pat Hartman | Aug 27, 2014 | Uncategorized
U.S. CEO and Worker’s Pay Ratio 1965-2010. For the Christian Science Monitor, staff writer Schuyler Velasco compiled a list of the American corporations where the yawning abyss between CEO pay and employee pay is most apparent. For every dollar the...
by Pat Hartman | Aug 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
When discussing the disparity between big boss pay and average worker pay, the first thing the defenders want us to know is that if top executives let their enormous paychecks be divided among the workers, each piece of the pie would be quite small. Walmart has a...
by Pat Hartman | Aug 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
House the Homeless has been considering, with dismay, the brisk back-and-forth exchange between the foster care system and the ranks of people experiencing homelessness. An untethered, chaotic lifestyle leads to more of the same in the next generation....
