New Orleans There’s something interesting happening in developing countries around welfare benefits that is very important now: they are increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of their direct cash welfare programs as the income and wealth of their countries improve. This is not to say that we are knocking on the door of a real solution …
Category: Financial Justice
Another Deal Coming for the Bankers, Unlikely to Benefit Consumers
Dauphine Island New reports have finally trickled out on a “last and final” deal between government regulators and the nation’s big banks over their irresponsible, immoral fleecing of consumers around home mortgages leaving millions as foreclosure victims. Nothing about this settlement sounds really good for consumers particularly. The whole thing smacks of end of the …
Minimum Wage Increase Initiatives Coming in Massachusetts, Missouri, and More
Boston Lew Finfer, the director of MCAN, the Massachusetts Community Action Network, the dean of community organizers in the Boston Area, was the last guest visiting with the ACORN Canada staff, and he honored the group with some interesting observations of what has changed and what has stayed the same in the work over the years, …