New Orleans Early this week H&R Block finally threw in the towel and announced that they would totally discontinue RALs for this coming tax season on 2011 returns. After seven (7) years we can finally count coup on a total victory that once preyed on lower income and desperate families for close to half-a-billion dollars …
Category: Ideas and Issues
Idea Exchange at Authors’ Coop Meeting
San Jose We were nestled in a new age retreat center in the coastal mountains about equidistant between San Jose and San Francisco near the town of Woodside, which boasts way too many high-tech CEO’s nestled in the redwoods. Berrett-Koehler, the publisher of my first book, Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign for Working Families, is …
TIGRA and Others in the fight for Remittance Justice
Oakland Western Union called us in Toronto to let us know that they are NOT ready to sit down directly and meet with ACORN International and its federated organizations. Hardly a surprise, but nonetheless a disappointment at the arrogance of entrenched financial services companies and their resistance to changing predatory practices. After my last blog …