New Orleans Suze Orman has made her reputation as a TV financial advisor. Now she wants to promote a debit card for low-and-moderate income families who have weak credit and want the ability to operate differently. Her Approved card needs to be renamed as the Improved card, but it’s still not a good card, or [...]
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New Orleans The lack of social mobility has finally gotten so bad that it seems even Republicans have noticed it. Horatio Alger and the “rags to riches” trajectory of the American dream are dead. The new narrative is best expressed as “rags to rags, and riches to riches.” According to a Jason DeParle piece in [...] New Orleans Support is increasingly lining up in New York City and elsewhere not simply for living wage ordinances, but more specifically for a more targeted type of living wage program where public dollars are partnered with private development. These so-called “business assistance” living wage ordinances that also draw from experiences with “community benefit agreements” [...] New Orleans – In one of the many articles on yet another multi-$100 million settlement, one story, almost in an aside, stated that the purchase of Countrywide’s assets by Bank of America, was “one of the worst deals ever.” The price tag for Bank of America has been billions. This settlement with the Justice Department [...] December 9, 2011 New Orleans A fellow organizer passed on an email to me yesterday that is worth sharing. Occupy Wall Street put out a combination position paper / magazine / whatnot entitled: “TIDAL: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy.” I was able to access the PDF by googling the title directly, and you might want to [...] New Orleans For years the India FDI Watch Campaign supported by ACORN International has campaigned to make sure that any modification in foreign direct investment would protect the 20,000,000 small retailers, birani shop keepers, brokers, and others would be done responsibly. Working to build a large, diverse national coalition, the [...] New Orleans ACORN International released a hard-hitting report that was the result of extensive research during the summer, largely conducted by Melanie Craxton, an economics major at the University of Edinburg, interning in the New Orleans headquarters. Because of our partnership with COMUCAP, the women’s coffee and aloe vera growing cooperative in Marcala, Honduras, and [...] New Orleans Having written about the need to sever our bad codependency relationship with big banks that are daily picking our pockets, I hopefully popped up the street to the new offices of my local credit union, ASI. I had good reason to do so. Their sister organization is my landlord and ASI originally [...] |
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