New Orleans The announcement by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan that student loans will be forgiven from tens of thousands of students who attended Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit company that went belly up last month teaching many invaluable but expensive lessons in finance and apparently fraud. The action is important on many levels, but it is vital to acknowledge …
Month: June 2015
Mobile Phones May Let Us Win Remittance Justice Yet
New Orleans ACORN International and its affiliates in numerous countries have been hammering away at the cost of remittances for several years now and often all we have to show for the effort has been some dents in the wall and bruises on our foreheads. We’ve succeeded in getting legislation introduced in different provinces and …
U-Haul is Becoming U-Fixit, We Rip-U!
New Orleans There’s a U-Haul location right at the railroad tracks hardly more than a half-mile from where I live and even closer to where we were assembling to move stuff from half a shotgun double to a storage unit a couple of miles down the road. Given the convenience, it never occurred to me to call …