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Domestic Workers Pushback as Citizen Wealth Advances

Tegucigalpa What are the odds that as we talk about achieving living wages and income security as a central theme of Citizen Wealth that in successive days there are surprising stories of domestic workers winning or holding on to higher wages in both Brazil and Saudi Arabia?

May 21st, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Ideas and Issues | Leave a comment

Collective Bargaining Under Attack

New Orleans It’s hard hearing and reading the reports about the attack on unions in Wisconsin.  After a life of avoiding the mass emails of any listserv, I ended up on one arbitrarily when I joined a group, so I’ve been inundated with hyperbolic messages that find the pushback in Wisconsin by labor heroic [...]

February 22nd, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: Labor Organizing, National Politics | 5 comments

No One Regulating Remittances

 Toronto            Preparing to meet with the ACORN International “intern army,” as I call them, at George Brown College today, I couldn’t help but laugh while using the Starbucks internet (thanks, fellas!) when I read that Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase was over at Davos complaining about “banker bashing” and France’s President Sarkozy was forced [...]

January 28th, 2011 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: ACORN International, Citizen Wealth, Financial Justice | Leave a comment

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.  [...]

December 26th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Citizen Wealth, Financial Justice | 2 comments
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