Foreign Aid is Minor Money, and Privatizing and Subcontracting Relief Assistance is Big Business

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

New Orleans   Survey after survey indicates that Americans believe that a huge percentage of the US budget and their tax money is spent on foreign aid. The Kaiser Family Foundation in a survey found the average respondent thought that more than a quarter of the national budget – 26% – was spent on foreign aid …

Continue Reading

Bond Issues Along Protests on School Takeovers, Privatization, and Charter Expansion

Citizen Wealth Education Financial Justice

New Orleans  Throughout the country parents, teacher unions, and community groups have been opposing the viral spread of privatization of public school systems and the efforts of charter school operators to expand their footprint in school districts. Perhaps the most controversial maneuvers are the state takeovers of local public school districts by removing duly elected …

Continue Reading

Alternative Mortgage Lending Tiptoeing Around a Broker-based Implosion – Again!

ACORN ACORN International Canada Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure

New Orleans   In the 2008 Great Recession, fingers pointed wildly in all directions and in some cases in little Taliban caves around the country they are still doing so, and trying to play the blame game at the expense of the victims. One of the more troubling terms to emerge from those terrible days …

Continue Reading