New Orleans Followers of the sub-prime wars still remember the place that New Century holds in the pantheon of the companies that seemed to dominate the market as Ameriquest did at one point and Countrywide did later. They were somebody then were as recently as 2006 until a year ago when they suddenly collapsed …
Category: Financial Justice
Recover With Organizing
New Orleans A report was issued by something called the Mercatus Center, which is based in Virginia on the campus of George Mason University. This outfit is doing a 5-year study of post-Katrina recovery efforts with a team of professors and researchers they have assembled. I suspect this is a study that starts with …
Slum Tours
New Orleans You would be surprised how often we debate the issues that revolve around “slum tourism” as these events have come to be called. Most acknowledge the role of the favela tours in Rio de Janeiro in developing the notion that there might be value in taking tourists to see poverty. It …