New Orleans In December ACORN International released its study and survey of remittances entitled Past Time for Remittance Justice (www.remittancejustice.org) . The bottom line is that we demanded that banks and money transfer organizations (MTOs, i.e. Western Union and MoneyGram) reduce all charges and fees for transferring money from migrant workers and immigrant families back to …
Author: wade
The Canadian Lessons in Turning Back Collective Bargaining Assaults
New Orleans In the early years of this century in Canada public employees and their unions faced almost exactly the same kind of hard conservative, neoliberal provincial attack on collective bargaining that we are seeing in the Republican assault in the Wisconsin, Ohio, and Indiana. Conservative governments had gained the whip hand in provincial parliaments …
Reckoning Coming for Home Modification Failures
New Orleans The good news is that more people are recognizing that the Administration’s HAMP program designed to achieve home mortgage modifications and prevent foreclosures has been a dismal failure. The bad news is that the Republicans are arguing that rather than fix it and actually prevent foreclosures, the program should be killed to save …