Scamming the Poor and Workers, Banks and Kushner Style Gerrymandering

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Immigration Reform

New Orleans  America, what a country! The news reports endlessly about plans to hard handle struggling families and workers, barely making it, or not making it at all, on food stamps or SSI disability payments, with increasingly draconian “work” requirements, mindless of whether any jobs exist and any fair definition of what “able-bodied” might mean, …

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PriceCheck Tools Can Save Big Money on Health Costs

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care Ideas and Issues

New Orleans   Recently I read a disturbing and powerful indictment of the cost and provision of health care, An American Sickness: How Health Became Big Business and How You Can Take it Back by former New York Times reporter Elisabeth Rosenthal. In devastating detail, she documented the wide variety of prices for basic and specialized …

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FNMA Opens a Crack in the Predatory Land Contracts Wall

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

New Orleans   Fresh off our meeting and work in Detroit, the Home Savers Campaign got a break. In response to Baltimore Congressman Elijah Cummings complaints about Vision Property Management, the national rent-to-own operation’s lack of cooperation with him and his committee, symbolized by the lead poisoning of children living in one of their contracted properties, …

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