Lake Buckhorn, Ontario ACORN members, leaders, and organizers were celebrating with the news that the mayor of Bristol, England, had folded under growing pressure from the ACORN campaign and shelved his proposal to eliminate exemptions for lower income families from the council tax. ACORN’s research and reports indicate that the victory protects the 16,000 poorest …
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CFPB Finally Takes the Stick to Predatory Payday Lending Industry
New Orleans The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, a beleaguered federal agency much needed by consumers and much despised by the entire phalanx of Republican governmental officeholders, has released new rules for the payday lending industry. It wasn’t the full list of Christmas presents that many of us had sent the CFPB Santa Claus, but there …
Arkansas ACORN Leader, Walter Nunn
New Orleans In the early 1970s, I used to run into Walter Nunn all the time. He and his wife were the primary leaders of the ACORN group in Oak Forest. He sat on the ACORN board in Little Rock and statewide in those days, but was always more of a back-of-the-room guy, than the …