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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Remittances Increase from USA, Progress on Disclosures, and Pushback from MTOs

ACORN International Canada Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Immigration Reform

New Orleans  I badly want to say that there is finally progress in the United States on remittances, which are financial transfers from immigrant families, migrant workers, and others to their families and communities back in their home countries.  The Wall Street Journal reported that the volume of money being remitted has in fact gone …

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No One Regulating Remittances

ACORN International Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

 Toronto            Preparing to meet with the ACORN International “intern army,” as I call them, at George Brown College today, I couldn’t help but laugh while using the Starbucks internet (thanks, fellas!) when I read that Jamie Dimon of JP Morgan Chase was over at Davos complaining about “banker bashing” and France’s President Sarkozy was forced …

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