Halifax Payday lenders throughout out North America are both under attack and organizing fiercely to resist effective regulation. In the United States, Republican lawmakers nationally and in some states are being mobilized by payday lenders to pushback against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) efforts to rollout regulations establishing minimum standards for payday lending. What …
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New Orleans If we want to make a difference in income inequality, there are some easy and accessible first steps that we can take and one of them is to lower the digital divide. ACORN Canada released a report based on a survey of 400 of our nearly 80,000 members across the country, and it …
Labor’s Depressing Data and the Contradictions Lying in Our Huge Potential
New Orleans Over the last week I found it hard and frustrating to come up with a coherent picture of the current predicament of the labor movement both here and yon. Talking to a long tenured colleague at the Change to Win federation in the USA, my brother remarked soberly that private sector union density …