Detroit In his speech before the find day of the ACORN Convention, former Senator John Edwards laid the gauntlet down on the “Half in 10” campaign to cut poverty in half in ten years working with ACORN and other grounds. The Detroit Free Press captured his remarks: "This is not going to …
Category: Financial Justice
Covered Bonds
Detroit ACORN’s Convention is getting ready to roll into Detroit. Not surprisingly a huge focus of this meeting is going to be threat of foreclosure and the credit squeezes everyone for our members now. Since Detroit, the state of Michigan, and the general Midwest are ground zero for some of these problems, the ACORN …
Section 8 and Crime
New Orleans The July-August issue of The Atlantic featured an article by Hanna Rosin entitled: “Why Crime is Coming Back — and Why No One Wants to Talk about it.” The article itself is less inflammatory than the headline, but the underlying thesis of the piece probes the question of whether or not tearing …