Little Rock What do you do with a bully? Slap ‘em in the face. Or, embarrass them. ACORN Canada did both by celebrating Halloween by issuing a “Horror Report” based on a survey of almost 300 of our members. Canada, perhaps even more than the US, allows a virtual monopoly with three companies holding the …
Category: ACORN International
Microcredit is Still a “Buy a Subsistence Job” Program
Little Rock There was a long, hopeful report on the supposed growth of microcredit among lower income families in the United States in the New York Times, but no matter how much slipping and falling we might have endured around invisible statistics, there was no way to avoid the bottom line conclusion that microcredit was …
Lessons for My Father on Myanmar and Yangon
Yangon My father used to ask me after every new exploration of a country unknown to either of us to tell him what might “interest” him that I had seen or learned. Though he passed away a bit over 5 years ago, it’s one of many habits that I choose not to break, so enjoy …