Pittsburgh When someone is elected president, they used to actually believe the words their speechwriters would scribble on the line that they were the president of all of the people in America. It is becoming clearer under the Trump Administration that even though he and the White House might parrot those words, they clearly no …
Category: Financial Justice
Bad Boy Banks Running Wild While Creating Credit Desert
New Orleans Rather than learning something about proper corporate behavior in the banking meltdown they triggered with their housing securitization schemes and unwillingness to supervise mortgage brokers, the gazillion dollar bailout seems to have taught the banking establishment that they could act in all ways with impunity. As we move towards the ten year mark …
DeVos and Education Department Cannot Renege on Student Loans
New Orleans Millions owe billions in student loans and in some cases it’s a just-past-the-cradle to the grave debt that just lingers on. In a good move and through a bipartisan vote under the George W. Bush Administration in 2007, Congress approved a bill that under certain conditions would allow an individual forgiveness of student …