St. Petersburg The ACORN committee, including Aaron Pridgin, a national board member from Florida, and Gloria Sweiringa, a national board member from Maryland, had met for hours with the management team from Ocwen Financial Services in their West Palm Beach offices. Looking under the hood, they were nowhere near as bad as we …
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Compartamos
West Palm Beach Microfinance has inspired great enthusiasm and interest in many quarters. It is a strategy that marshals resources in hard to finance areas at a time where private solutions seem to constantly trump real programs. The jury is still out. I have reservations partly because it is hard to figure how poverty …
Relative Paupers
New Orleans Chris Cooper in the Wall Street Journal refers to the Clinton family in their last year in the White House as “relative paupers” filing taxes on $375,000. Let’s assume this was just “tongue-in-cheek” since the real article was about the fact that the Clintons pulled down at least $109 million in the …