New Orleans A signature effort of the campaign conducted by ACORN with tax preparers over the last 4-5 years has been to either eliminate Refund Anticipation Loans (RALs) and similar products from the marketplace or failing to do that, reduce the predatory pricing that drives the product. In our the agreements to settle this …
Category: Financial Justice
Moving Money Schemes
San Francisco Being on the Tides board in its various forms is an emersion experience in a different culture and environment outside of the normal range where I roam. Even after 30 years of being on this board and my great pride in the growth of Tides that began in the most casual ways …
PipeVine
San Francisco This is an interesting case in the non-profit world, and the decision has ramifications, though perhaps not exactly the ones that some might draw from the facts. PipeVine was a company created by the United Way of the Bay Area (UWBA) in 2000 to collect workplace donations made by employees and then to …