New Orleans Maybe this is a bit better Labor Day for American workers than the last several. We do have some things that have broken our way. The minimum wage has finally gone up from $5.15 to $5.85 and stands to keep rising for the next couple of years. Good news! A …
Category: ACORN
Non-Profit Payday Loans
New Orleans We have been fighting payday loans hammer and tong for years now, particularly under the leadership of ACORN Canada, but increasingly in the USA as well. The problem for our lower-income constituency defines the nature of what it means to have a predatory product. There is nothing good about a payday loan, …
Gonzalez Down
Quito At breakfast the last several mornings I have read the Miami Herald Latin American edition with some interest. Today there was an interesting story about Cuban immigration through Mexican ports along the Yucatan and the increased traffic there. Closer reading turned out that the difference between last year and this year was less …