Louisiana had a budget hole to fill - so instead of going after the more than $300 million they hand over to oil and gas in form of subsidies, they're going after the old and disabled. Plus, you may think that a 3.9% unemployment rate is great news. Here's why it's not.
Meanwhile, as a new hurricane season looms in Puerto Rico, almost 300 schools have closed, pensions have been slashed and the federal minimum wage has been cut. As Alex Cohen says in our interview, "The saddest thing is that the United States and the Fiscal Control Board is not only failing at providing adequate disaster relief to American citizens, but is using this to kick them while they're down, to push forward the austerity measures." Shock doctrine, solidarity aid and protest on the U.S. colony.