Criminal Injustice in Bail Bond Exploitation and Jury Selection and Verdict System

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

New Orleans    No April Fool’s, I’m proud to live in New Orleans.  It takes character and resilience to weather the storm.  The city is welcoming and distinct, diverse and textured.  Traveling around the world it brings smiles to faces and always “I wanna comes.”  It’s also a place of shame that triggers anger, and today …

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Immunization and Other Public Health Shortages Reveal Weaknesses of Conservative Response

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care

Little Rock   A friend and comrade made the simple, but totally correct, observation that the weaknesses in the political positions from both the right and left, Democrats and Republicans, is that they were both arguing over insurance, when the American people only care about healthcare.  Nowhere is this more obvious than when you consider the …

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Land Contract Companies Settle Lawsuits in Cincinnati Without Celebrations

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Ideas and Issues

New Orleans     In the more than a year that the ACORN Home Savers Campaign has built committees of owner-occupants in cities in Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Georgia, and Tennessee to try to force companies to convert land contracts to ownership for the occupants, to renegotiate the terms, and bring homes up to standards, others …

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