New York On a plane again after being mostly in New Orleans for two weeks, so I am again looking at the callow scowls of men and women speedily sleep walking through airport corridors as they rush on to these modern buses with wings trying to get from here to there. Brings me to notes …
Category: Financial Justice
Grassley and Non-Profit Hospitals
New Orleans ACORN has been hammering away at non-profit, tax exempt hospitals for years about the level of charity care that they are providing, as well as their tactics in trying to collect money from the unfortunate families needing their help by using liens on their property and all kinds of tactics as if they …
2/28s
Baton Rouge Countrywide and several other companies involved in mortgage market from primes to sub-primes announced at the end of the week that they were abandoning the highly controversial mortgage product the industry refers to as 2/28’s. We applauded the change but with only one-hand clapping. ACORN, along with everyone else who has taken …