For Banks the Party Never Stopped

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure Ideas and Issues

Houston        Seven years after the wheels started coming off the bank’s mad money train, it seems clear that settlements for mortgage abuse, which is euphemism for fraud, Dodd-Frank legislation, and what should have been the awesome weight of having collapsed the US and world economy and upended the lives of millions, have essentially been water …

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Make No Mistake, India’s Modi is Not a Progressive on Any Score

ACORN ACORN International Ideas and Issues International Organizing

New Orleans    In one of those rare and marvelous coincidences, I had foregone my annual trip to Mumbai, because Vinod Shetty of ACORN Foundation of India and the Dharavi Project was amazingly going to be in New Orleans when I returned, giving us days to catchup on events there and elsewhere in India. Invariably at …

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Legislators Leveraging Hospitals to Pressure Governors to Expand Medicaid

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care Ideas and Issues

New Orleans       In Florida, there is a well-publicized breech between the Republican Governor and the Republican-controlled legislature over their budget shortfalls and the need to bridge the gaps by expanding Medicaid.  The governor, Rick Scott, has gone to wild extremes of suing the federal government to try to force a change in the already …

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