New Orleans I have sometimes been critical of the Grameen Bank, the microlending institution founded in Bangladesh, and am generally skeptical of claims that debt is an effective poverty reduction mechanism, but the efforts of the Bangladesh government to take control of the institution, seemingly to seize all of its social enterprise assets is troubling. It’s …
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FCC’s Connect2Compete Disconnected at Cox Cable & Payday Embarrasses Chase
New Orleans Remember the poor…low and moderate income families who will always be with us? Well, more evidence keeps piling up that when it comes to internet access and a lifeline to the 21st Century, the “volunteer” efforts by the big cable companies are continuing to make the FCC’s claims of lowering the digital …
Wall Street Journal Continues Curious Campaign against Lifeline Telephone for the Poor
New Orleans Spencer Ante and the Journal continue their curious, and in many ways deceptive, campaign against the FCC’s lifeline telephone program, which allow the poor to have basic access to a telephone for less than $10 a month for emergency messages and a limited number of texts and calls. The company’s’ providing the service …