New York City The severity of the Great Recession is finally stripping away the pretense that there was anything like real welfare reform in recent years as opposed to sufficient tinkering with an expanding job market that allowed many to go to work with the thin threads of support offered by the state. Hopefully this …
Month: May 2010
Foreclosures in Tijuana
Lima The details were somewhat illusive but the issue was profound when we heard leaders from ACORN Mexico in Tijuana describing a more vicious twist to the foreclosure crisis that has been gripping their neighbors in the United States. The reports focused on more than 6000 houses in Tijuana that have seen a government assisted …
International Reports Via Skype
Lima In a bold experiment at the ACORN International staff meeting we tried to schedule and link our far flung offices together via free Skype connections to be able to hear reports from India and Kenya and introduce staff and leaders to each other. As the expression goes in Spanish it was mas a minos! …