New Orleans Finally, the big-time money transfer organizations and the gazillions in predatory profits for moving money for migrant workers and immigrant families are at least hearing our footprints coming after them in the distance. Several months ago Ontario NDP Member of Parliament Jagmeet Singh introduced a bill we had collaborated in writing under the …
Category: Financial Justice
Forgiving Interest and Amnesty for Student Debt Fines and Penalties
Toronto A trillion dollars in student debt is on the books in the USA. The Department of Education paid $1.4 billion to bloodsucking debt collection agencies last year. Debt collectors refer to the process as “lip smacking,” an “oil well” of opportunity, and so forth. The government claims it will collect almost 85 cents on …
Last Gasp Support for Grameen Bank and Microlending?
New York City To see George Shultz, a former US Secretary of Labor, Treasury, and State and Madeleine Albright, a former UN Ambassador and US Secretary of State, co-sign an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal as a last gasp move to prevent the Bangladesh Government’s takeover of the path breaking micro-lending institution, the …