Cusco If ACORN represented the “gold standard in advocacy,” as I once heard a Gates Foundation program officer say to me about the work of New Orleans ACORN post-Katrina, then South Shore Bank in Chicago held a similar position in the community development world. One of our old friends from Little Rock, Bob Nash, who …
Category: Financial Justice
Big Credit Card Win for the Biscuit Cookers
Cusco In the predawn I ran down to the lobby to check the on-line Times before we humped it to the mountain tops in Cusco, but I wasn’t looking for ball scores or editorials, but to see if the biscuit cookers – an old Arkansas term for consumers coined by the infamous Witt Stephens at …
Campaign to reduce student loan debt
New Orleans When I was in Columbus, Ohio a couple of weeks ago, I was stunned when an organizing colleague, Barbara Clark, told me that 75% of the 300 or so tax returns she had helped do at a VITA site at the Neighborhood House had student loan debts that were severe enough in some …