New Orleans After a year of stirring the pot in one country after another about the crime of predatory price gouging of migrant and immigrant workers through ACORN International’s Remittance Justice Campaign and our multiple reports exposing these abuses, ACORN Canada has led the way to the next step having secured a sponsor for legislation …
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Great ACORN Reports from around the World and Remittance Campaign Breakthroughs
Mexico City A highlight of the year is always getting the reports of ACORN International affiliates around the world and hearing about the progress and the challenges members, leaders, and organizers are facing. The obstacles are legion, but so are some of the surprises. Vinod Shetty from Mumbai started the ball rolling with a clear …
Informal Hawala Remittance System Huge, Competitive, and Dangerous
New Orleans Yesterday on the ACORN International website (www.acorninternational.org), we released the third of our investigative, research reports in connection with our Remittance Justice Campaign. The bottom line is that the amounts of informal transfers are huge and underestimated. They are wildly cheaper by many orders of magnitude (0.25% to 1.25% compared to World Bank …