New Orleans A conundrum becomes a contradiction when we look at regulators concerns about the size and operations of huge, non-bank financial institutions that were such a sizeable factor in triggering the Great Recession and find that they are moving to protect the financial system and ignoring citizen and consumer interests. The Treasury Department has …
Category: Financial Justice
What IRS Scandal?
Little Rock Increasingly the IRS exempt offices controversy is looking more and more like a tempest at a Tea Party. When Dave Johnson, a blogger at the Huffington Post, wrote a lead sentence reminding readers that they needed to remember the ACORN manufactured videos when they read about the IRS so-called scandal, he had …
Poverty as a Disease
New Orleans Dr. Perri Klaus wrote a piece recently for a Times’ column that should not be ignored essentially making the case that poverty is not simply a social, political, and economic circumstance, but a disease with terrible consequences, lifelong impacts, and potentially multi-generational effects. At one level he talks about an increasingly prevalent diagnosis …