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: Citizen Wealth
Forgive Some Portion of Student Debt and Make Payments Affordable
New Orleans According to a recent report from the credit bureau, TransUnion, covered in the Wall Street Journal, student debt is now knocking on the $1 trillion mark with $900 billion now on the books. More than $300 billion of that debt is termed “subprime” student-loan debt, where the likelihood of repayment by once ambitious …
The Problem of Remittances and Financial Literacy for Immigrants
Atlanta I got lucky and five students, now calling themselves the ACORN International Team at Georgia State University, picked as their major project at the GSU School of Social Work helping us develop information and support for our Remittance Justice Campaign. We assembled at a Nepalese restaurant in an Atlanta neighborhood that is at the …