Atlanta I got lucky and five students, now calling themselves the ACORN International Team at Georgia State University, picked as their major project at the GSU School of Social Work helping us develop information and support for our Remittance Justice Campaign. We assembled at a Nepalese restaurant in an Atlanta neighborhood that is at the …
Category: Financial Justice
Mortgage Brokers Wrest Free of Real Regulatory Reform
New Orleans On the eve of the subprime meltdown in 2007 in Orange County, I met with a co-founder and the new CEO, general counsel, and some of the board members of the high flying mortgage player, New Century, along with several ACORN leaders from California, and ACORN’s national housing directors. We listened to crazy …
Short Courses from Top Economists on Financial Collapse & Inequality
New Orleans How about “economics for idiots” for all of us out there who might have trouble remembering what we have learned from the Great Recession as well as the Bush “build the rich” program of recent years? Thanks to the Times we have this today in easy to access fashion. Here’s Alan …