New Orleans Refund Anticipation Loans or RALs are a product that have preyed on lower income worker families since their inception and promotion by the big tax preparers, H&R Block, Jackson-Hewitt, and Liberty, as well as smaller fry who could get access to credit. Negotiating with these companies could get depressing when I worked with …
Month: December 2010
Avaaz.org
New Orleans It is hard to explain how I stumbled on an organization with 6.5 million members, but in the modern world of high tech campaigning and low entry internet membership, it turns out to be easy to do, and that was the case for me and Avaaz.org when I was contacted by a Berlin-based, …
Banks Muscling Out Critics on Accounts
New Orleans The New York Times zinged out a righteous editorial today to my shock and awe about the fact that something should mitigate the arbitrary and capricious power of banks to unilaterally determine whose business they will take and whose they will not take. In this case they were talking about the way …