Small Scotia Steps on Remittances

New Orleans Handling remittances from working immigrant families is such a lucrative business that progress is measured in very small steps.  We were delighted to take one with Scotia Bank when they announced in Toronto that they were lowering costs for remittances from their account holders using a combination of their online access and [...]

Colors and Dawn on the Marcala Mountains

Marcala           In an afterthought I had thrown a small flashlight in my bag.  You never know.  As Tim sings, “there’s the cowboy in us all,” and with me there’s still a boy scout deep down riding alongside I guess.  Good thing.  We had driven up the mountains from Marcala in pitch dark to where our [...]

Poor Give More

Ocean Springs The poor are more generous that the rich, and in fact the poorer you are, the more likely a larger portion of your income is given to others. For the poor experience drives empathy and action. For the rich it turns out that talk is in fact cheap.

Remittances Reform

Santiago    Remittances are the lifeblood of many of the ACORN International communities from Canada to Mexico to India to Kenya, and it was not long into the conversation among all of our organizers before the a campaign and the actions that would bring it to life started to take shape. After years of poking [...]

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