Los Angeles A couple of years ago I spent a fascinating period over almost a year working with Casa de Maryland. They began as a collection of workers’ centers and have become the largest immigration rights statewide organization in the country with huge victories to their credit in winning drivers’ licenses and a state DREAM …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Home Stealing Swindles and Similar Crimes
Baton Rouge For years I’ve seen these almost handmade looking signs on street corners in our neighborhoods in various cities in the USA that say something on the order of “We Buy Old Houses, Call XYZ” or “No Matter What Condition, We Buy Houses” and so forth. In New Orleans it seemed part of the …
Will Private-Public Partnerships Lead to Fewer Families Unbanked?
New Orleans Jacob Lew, the US Treasure Secretary, standing with his partners, including Bill Gates representing the Gates Foundation, announced a public-private partnership that would include Treasury, Gates, JP Morgan Chase, PayPal, and others in trying to bring financial services to the “unbanked.” Lew indicated that globally 2 billion people relied on cash and that …