Shocking Student Loan Debt

New Orleans In talking about Citizen Wealth around the country I’m frequently asked about education and the old saw that education creates income security.  Odds are that there is still truth to that, but it was shocking to read how predatory the least slipup can be for students taking on debts for a key to [...]

US Census Backlash Hurts Cities

Monteverde Admittedly in the 24-hour news cycle the memory lasts about the same length of time, but it wasn’t that long ago that we got to read about the cave-in of the U. S. Census Bureau to the partisan assault on their partnerships, including ACORN and more recently SEIU.  This is all rich [...]

Santa Barbara Finally Pulls Up Short

Quepos            It was an extra present under the palm tree to read in the pre-dawn that Santa Barbara Bank & Trust was being pulled out of the business of factoring RALs, predatory refund anticipation loan for Jackson & Hewitt and other companies in the viciously competitive tax services market for lower  income and working families.  [...]

Healthcare Hijinks: Catholics, Rockefeller & Repubs

            Buffalo             Driving through neighborhoods on first the east side and then the west side of Buffalo was a reminder of what happens in America when your issues fall to the bottom of the pile.  The impact of deindustrialization was an ever present scar even when we found the occasional still operating Wonder Bread or [...]

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