New Orleans After much sound and fury the Obama Administration seems to have slipped Professor Elizabeth Warren in through the side door of the White House to setup the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It’s all confusing since the Bureau is squeezed between the Federal Reserve and Treasury Departments, and Warren herself has been snuck …
Month: September 2010
More Catholic Funding Controversies
New Orleans Dan Petegorsky sent me a couple of emails over my last couple of days in Toronto. Dan has been the solid rock of the Western States Center, a progressive training, research, and support center for non-profits and progressives in the western US, for the last number of years and is now handling special …
Poverty Rate Soaring in US & Canada
Toronto Erik Eckholm summarized the Census Bureau’s report in a clear but painful way: “With the country in its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, four million additional Americans found themselves in poverty in 2009, with the total reaching 44 million, or one in seven residents. Millions more were surviving only because of expanded …