Are Peoples’ Services a Prelude to Peoples’ Empowerment for the Poor?

ACORN International Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure Health Care International Labor Organizing Organizers Forum

Managua         The Organizer’s Forum in Nicaragua will start with a bang on its first full day with a meeting with the head of the informal workers’ union followed by a visit with a representative of the Nicaraguan cooperative movement. Waking up early it was still sprinkling after more than a dozen hours of intermittently hard …

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Coming Healthcare Dilemma: High Deductibles and Short Turnaround for Coming Year

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care

Montreal          Having felt like a voice in the wilderness raging at these high deductible plans that through some kind of loophole or chicanery have managed to be seen as qualified and acceptable under the Affordable Care Act in the US, it’s absolutely no comfort to stumble onto news’ reports that acknowledge that this has largely …

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