St. Petersburg – We are over the top in New Orleans now. We are at the point where the level of grief, frustration, and helplessness boils over everywhere. Headlines in Tampa and St. Petersburg simply said “Chaos” and “Anarchy.” This is now a case of total government failure, and a national disgrace. This is a …
Category: Financial Justice
Wells Fargo’s Gold Rush
Los Angeles: Wells Fargo is a huge banking conglomerate and quite the tough customer in its own right. The stagecoach is a clue. This company is still as roughhewn as the West itself. There is something of the frontier and cowboy spirit that seeps into the corporate culture. At least that’s what ACORN has found in …
Bankrupting the Middle Class
New Orleans: Looking at the increasing stratification apparent in higher education leads one inexorably to the fact that even as poor and working families are locked out of a better future, many middle class families are falling rapidly on the slippery economic slope. Statistics included in several articles recently in The American Prospect made this point …