New Orleans The White House has announced that President Obama will sign an executive order barring discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender workers. Essentially, the President is adding sexual orientation and preference from government contracts as part of the banned list including race, color, sex, national origin, and religious preference. The order is estimated …
Category: Financial Justice
Regulating Payday Lenders Out of Our Neighborhoods Like Porn Shops and Liquor Stores
Houston Payday lenders are by definition predatory no matter how they try to spin the story. Driving in torrential, blinding rains yesterday from Dallas to Houston, I listened to an ad from ACE Cash Express offering “free” loans of up to $1500 for 30-days supposedly without any interest or fees. ACE Cash Express just settled …
Promises Broken and Settlements Sidetracked for Homeowners Facing Foreclosures
Little Rock I’m sorry. Here we go again spinning like a broken record on the amazing and devastating ineptness of the US government and its various agencies and branches to seriously solve the problem of bank intransience and offer real relief to borrowers needing loan modifications to escape foreclosure and …