New Orleans One of the least surprising, but most depressing, reports on the early days of the enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act in recent weeks has not been the online application snafus but has been the number of families that have come walking into our offices throughout Texas and Louisiana hoping to find …
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Is it Possible that Judges are Finally Fed Up with Banks Breaking Bad?
Toronto After years of big banks essentially flipping off their customers and borrowers fighting foreclosures in no small measure because banks were more than willing to take the money and run on the government’s bailout, but were heedless of the damage they were doing to their borrowers’ lives and communities, Gretchen Morgenston in the New York …
Big Data Finally Helping Poor Fight Predatory Payday Lenders
Oshawa, Ontario For a change, big data seems to have been enlisted in a good fight rather than for spying on us or selling politicians and schlock. With the recent action of the state legislature Alabama became the thirteenth state along with Illinois and Florida to require payday lenders to report their customers to a …