New Orleans Once upon a time back in the last century, just as there are now campaigns for things like living wages and ending predatory lending, there were fights to hold giant utility companies accountable all over the country more than forty years ago. Then there was something called inflation, which young people in the …
Category: ACORN
The Human Face of Payday Lending
Little Rock People can read the reports of banks cutting back on small business lending, nod, and say, but, hey, I don’t have a small business. Others can understand that banks make even fewer small personal loans and have surrendered that market to payday lenders and other predatory shysters, and say, hey, it will never …
Is the Chattering Class Calling for the Poor to Organize?
New Orleans The darned poor! They are so exasperating! They won’t get jobs, when there are no jobs to be gotten. They won’t simply abandon their children, when there is no daycare they can afford or place to put them. They still want to eat even when they don’t have enough money for food. They …