Little Rock The headline was no tipoff on this piece in the Times’ business section. Another article about how much the economics of single parent households really suck, blah, blah, blah, please tell us something we didn’t know, will ya? So they did by basically in so many words and with all due concern letting …
Category: Financial Justice
Chase and Other Banks Need Policing & Regulation on Pay Day Lending Abuses
Little Rock It takes a lot of newsprint and video clips to bring Jamie Dimon, the arrogant chief of JP Morgan Chase, one of USA’s largest banks, down but stories in the Times picked widely of Chase enabling predatory on-line payday lenders by allowing hundreds and thousands of overdraft and other fees to empty workers’ …
The Poor Need Good Organization and Representation, Not Attorneys
Jackson It was my kind of headline in the Times, “Right to Lawyer Can be Empty Promise to the Poor.” I was ready to agree whether I read the article or not, they “had me from hello.” Inarguably this is not a new problem. In criminal matters even with the Gideon decision ostensibly giving indigents …