Baton Rouge Two advance men showed up on Thursday to start vetting locations and activities for President Clinton’s visit to Baton Rouge to help spur participation for eligible families in the earned income tax credit (EITC) program, announce the grant of $250,000 to the ACORN Tax Access Centers and applaud their work in the ten …
Category: Financial Justice
Bill’s 1st Grant
New Orleans A press conference last Friday in Harlem marked a good milestone. Former President Bill Clinton joined with Maude Hurd, ACORN’s President, and a dozen Katrina survivors working with ACORN in New York City, and announced the first grant of the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation would be $250,000 to ACORN. The grant was to …
What Wal-Mart Can’t Buy
New Orleans It must be rough being the world’s largest corporation and largest employer and still having these old school institutions get in your way. Governments are so pesky. You would think we would have found something new in these modern times. Alan Greenspan, Mr. Federal Reserve and Mr. Financial Establishment, decided to oppose the …