New Orleans Early this week H&R Block finally threw in the towel and announced that they would totally discontinue RALs for this coming tax season on 2011 returns. After seven (7) years we can finally count coup on a total victory that once preyed on lower income and desperate families for close to half-a-billion dollars …
Category: Citizen Wealth
The Assault on Citizen Wealth Entitlements
New Orleans No matter how jaded we have all become about the cynicism of political experience and the hijacking of popular government, regardless of the party and people in power, by the interests of the rich and the corporations, it is still shocking to see the mean-spirited erosion of consensus that in the richest country …
Financial Assistance Funds Drying Up
New Orleans On a plane recently the window seat passenger next to me was a regional training manager for the largest consumer credit counseling outfit in America. She told me they were cutting out a huge portion of their low income home counseling efforts because of cutbacks at HUD. A recent article in the New …