Arkansas Playing Gotcha with the Poor to Cut Them Off of Medicaid

Ideas and Issues

http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/01_Johnny_Guitar_1536998415215958.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans  In a sordid and shameful episode a few weeks ago Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson pridefully announced that the state had managed to bar 4300 people from health care support through Medicaid because of its new work requirement policies.  Seema Verma the head of the federal …

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Citizen Wealth in Home Ownership is Becoming Citizen Inequity

ACORN Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure Ideas and Issues

New Orleans   A couple of years ago I wrote a book called, Citizen Wealth: Winning the Campaign to Save Working Families. It was commonly known that for low-and-moderate income families the largest index of any wealth they possessed was based on whether or not they had managed somehow to become a homeowner. At ACORN we …

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Vision Property Management: Exploiting Lower Income Home Buyers as a Business Model

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Foreclosure

New Orleans   In writing about Vision Property Management, the predatory and unscrupulous rent-to-own real estate company, reporters for The New York Times obviously struggled for a way to describe where to place Vision and other bottom-fishing realty companies that exploit lower income and working families’ hopes of home ownership. They ended up just talking …

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