New Orleans I may still be under a gag order on ACORN’s final settlement with Wells Fargo, but who knows at this point and who would care now. Wells Fargo was always about hard ball and hard bargaining, but when we moved after than in 2004 after settling first with Ameriquest and then Household Finance …
Category: Financial Justice
Coming Republican Governors’ Crisis on Unemployment and Benefits
New Orleans When governments do not support full access to the programs that support citizen wealth, the entire community suffers and pays the price, not just the family. Michael Siemienas, speaking for SuperValu (owner of Save-A-Lot which is only a couple of blocks from my house) hit on this point in a Times’ piece saying …
End Invisible Unemployment Now
New Orleans More than 14 million statistically unemployed adding up to a jobless rate of 9.2% cannot really be invisible, can they? How could they be invisible especially when the real numbers of unemployed who are now “discouraged” job seekers, workers in the informal economy, and “portfolio” workers balancing a list of tasks while trying …