New Orleans I’ve been on the post office bandwagon for some time as a solution for reducing the impact of predatory lending, check cashing, and money transfers or remittances. It seems in the effort to protect jobs, the American Postal Workers Union may be planning to take just this kind of proposal to the bargaining …
Category: ACORN International
A Victory for the Poor is Still Possible At Least in British Columbia
New Orleans There are no good times to be poor, but these are especially hard times given persistent inequality and distorted public policies that throw a couple of nickels towards lower income families while opening the gateway to millions for those with big money. All of which makes the ACORN victory in what might have seemed …
NACLA Report on the Americas Going On-Line Only
New Orleans I have been a subscriber to the NACLA Report on the Americas for a decade or so and a reader for longer than that every time I would run into a copy. Produced by the North American Congress for Latin America since 1967, the Report at its best offered insightful on-the-ground analysis of …