New Orleans There was an interesting piece in the Times, buried in the business section that pointed out pretty clearly that real money to achieve more equity in countries like the USA has to do with taxing wealth not just income. I can remember clearly our effort in Arkansas in the middle 1970’s to maintain a …
Category: Canada
Payroll or Payday Loans? Predatory Rates Sweeping Brazil & Mexico Credit Markets
New Orleans For working families payday loans pretty much define predatory lending. A family desperate for money takes a loan against their next paycheck. In years of campaigns ACORN Canada has won increased regulation of such loans in a number of provinces. The story in the United States where financial institutions of all sizes and …
Minimum Wage Increase Initiatives Coming in Massachusetts, Missouri, and More
Boston Lew Finfer, the director of MCAN, the Massachusetts Community Action Network, the dean of community organizers in the Boston Area, was the last guest visiting with the ACORN Canada staff, and he honored the group with some interesting observations of what has changed and what has stayed the same in the work over the years, …