New York City The severity of the Great Recession is finally stripping away the pretense that there was anything like real welfare reform in recent years as opposed to sufficient tinkering with an expanding job market that allowed many to go to work with the thin threads of support offered by the state. Hopefully this …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Goldman Sachs and South Shore Bank
Cusco If ACORN represented the “gold standard in advocacy,” as I once heard a Gates Foundation program officer say to me about the work of New Orleans ACORN post-Katrina, then South Shore Bank in Chicago held a similar position in the community development world. One of our old friends from Little Rock, Bob Nash, who …
Big Credit Card Win for the Biscuit Cookers
Cusco In the predawn I ran down to the lobby to check the on-line Times before we humped it to the mountain tops in Cusco, but I wasn’t looking for ball scores or editorials, but to see if the biscuit cookers – an old Arkansas term for consumers coined by the infamous Witt Stephens at …