The Problem of Remittances and Financial Literacy for Immigrants

ACORN International Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Immigration Reform Remittances

Atlanta   I got lucky and five students, now calling themselves the ACORN International Team at Georgia State University, picked as their major project at the GSU School of Social Work helping us develop information and support for our Remittance Justice Campaign.   We assembled at a Nepalese restaurant in an Atlanta neighborhood that is at the …

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Devil in Details Over Immigration Reform Prospects

Immigration Reform National Politics

Shreveport     If the devil is in the details, vagueness about the specifics of the proposal on real immigration reform may be hell itself. President Obama, speaking in Las Vegas, had it both ways.  He both encouraged quick action, threw roses to both the Republican and Democratic efforts, and repeated his “principles” for reform, but also …

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Nonprofit Deductions, DREAMing, Facts, Live-In Wages, Tax Justice, and Twitter Access

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care Immigration Reform Organizing

Quito     With 80% of the United States households earning, and therefore paying, taxes on incomes of less than $100,000 per year, that means that the vast majority of us are filing “short forms” on IRS 1040A.  Independent studies regularly establish that the most generous Americans, when measured as a percentage of income, are those making …

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