Playa de Manzilla Certainly ACORN Canada didn’t expect a resounding endorsement from the conservative national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, from its editorial about the ACORN living wage campaigns that are front and center in the major city and national capital of Ottawa and in New Westminster, the important working suburb of Vancouver, and it’s …
Category: Financial Justice
Santa Barbara Finally Pulls Up Short
Quepos It was an extra present under the palm tree to read in the pre-dawn that Santa Barbara Bank & Trust was being pulled out of the business of factoring RALs, predatory refund anticipation loan for Jackson & Hewitt and other companies in the viciously competitive tax services market for lower income and working families. …
Pampered, Rich, Lazy Bankers Dis Prez
New Orleans The meeting between a dozen big bankers and President Obama was just for show anyway, but three of the big dawgs were too trifling to make it from New York to DC for cryeye because of fog. The three scofflaws were Goldman Sachs, the poster child for banking excess, Citigroup, the face of …