New Orleans There is a lot of talk about reforming credit card fees and rates, but a lot of this seems just that: talk. The House Financial Services Committee chaired by Barney Frank has talked about capping rates, but also seems powerless in the wake of many companies (including my own Union Privilege Card offered …
Category: Financial Justice
Boosting Employement of Indian Rural Poor
New Orleans Using the weekend to catch up on old papers, magazines, and whatever, allowed me to stumble on some head scratchers. Newsweek has a new format in order to try and survive as a news-based magazine in the cutthroat environment of the internet and the 24-hour news cycle. Sometimes they try to stir the …
Sweatshops Alive and Well
New Orleans In the prevailing wisdom and the back pats that we like to sometimes hope are well earned and deserved, in speaking with students on university campuses about organizing chapters to support ACORN International’s organizing in various countries I have occasionally used cited the effectiveness of the anti-sweatshop movement as exhibit one for why …