Atlanta In the foreclosure meltdown being experienced by borrowers all over the country who were fortunate enough to get subprime loans, but did so often based on spurious stories from brokers are now facing a resetting of their interest rates that will make the loans unaffordable and therefore possible foreclosure, ACORN has worked with …
Month: September 2007
Better Wal-Mart Health
New Orleans Watch the sky! Pigs are flying! Wal-Mart announced actual improvements in its health care offering for its associates. The improvements included a grant of $100-500 to lower health costs while reducing premiums in some cases as low as $5 per month. The company claimed they would also get rid of hospital deductibles …
Sock Puppet Store
Washington Every once in a while it is scary how something comes at you from every angle and that’s what Whole Foods was doing to me in Washington. On one hand I was reading about Whole Food stores while flying into DC in Michael Pollan’s, Omnivore’s Dilemma, where he describes the store …