Senate says HUD cannot fund ACORN; Will House agree?
Is it any surprise? We’ve known for some time that ACORN is a questionable organization. The latest pimp and prostitute video is just the icing on the cake, comments the Hot Air blog. Now the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) [...]
“Usury Law & The Christian Right” | Meyers’ Critique
A few months ago, I posted my brief review of the academic paper “Usury Law and the Christian Right: Faith Based Political Power and the Geography of the American Payday Loan Regulation.” I did this because authors Stephen Graves and Christopher Peterson [...]
Economic change I can agree with
(CLICK HERE if you missed part one of this article on the National Council For a New America.)
As the country battles through the worst economic crisis in a generation, we must remain focused on the foundations and institutions that have made us the most prosperous [...]
Freddie Mac Official Dead in Apparent Suicide
Tough year for consumer finance. People use online cash advance loans and credit cards to dig in where their paychecks don’t go, but habitual use can create trouble. It has also been a rough year for American high finance. Small and large banks have [...]
Trying to make lawlessness “social justice”
This concludes a four-article series regarding ACORN and its connections in politics, big money and abuse of the taxpayer’s trust. It can be argued that no one entity has brought the American economy to its knees without a cash advance, but ACORN and organizations close [...]
Too dangerous to ignore
This article concludes my study of the Employment Policies Institute’s (EPI) report “Rotten ACORN: America’s Bad Seed.” Click here if you wish to view parts ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR or FIVE of this article series.
We’ve seen that the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) speaks [...]