Closing The Payday Loan Trap: New Rules Will Help Borrowers
Long overdue reforms via the Consumer's Financial Protection Bureau
NAACP President: 'We Have To Look At Fundamentally Changing The Culture Of Policing'
CBS, Face the Nation, Dec. 7, 2014. Read more... http://crooksandliars.com/2014/12/naccp-president-calls-federal-legislation
Why You Shouldn't Be "Optimistic" About Corporate "Tax Reform"
Why is it that any time you hear the word “reform” coming out of Washington it always ends badly for about 99 percent of us? Here are some actual reforms that are need for corporate tax reform.
6 Million Unemployed In Spain
Video: A record 6 million people -- or 27.2 percent of the population -- are unemployed in Spain, the highest level for the country since it began keeping records in 1976.
New Report Calls For More Grants To Low-Income Students, End To Federal Parent Loan Program
By Marian Wang, ProPublica
The federal government must double down on grants to low-income students and dramatically simplify the system of student loans, says a new report by the non-partisan New America Foundation.
The report,
Obama's Weekly Address: Progress On Wall Street Reform, And Economic Recovery
In this morning's weekly address, President Obama highlighted indications of an improving U.S. economy, Five million jobs added, a falling unemployment rate, and his Wall Street reform legislation and gave a glimpse of what is a slowly, but very steadily, brightening financial future for middle-class Americans.
Moyers & Company: The Need To Tackle Banking Reform
Between what are seen by many as President Obama’s weak proposals and Mitt Romney’s loving embrace, bankers have little to fear from either administration, and that leaves the rest of America on perilously thin economic ice. Neil Barofsky, who held the thankless job of special inspector general in charge of policing TARP, the bailout’s Troubled Asset Relief Program, joins Bill to discuss the critical yet unmet need to tackle banking reform and avoid another financial meltdown.
Money Is Speech: A Musical History Of Campaign Finance
ProPublica
Here's our latest explainer video, on the storied history of money in politics. Lyrics follow.
Act I: Brown Paper Bags"I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited . I've earned every cent."
Bill Moyers Talks With Sheila Bair On Keeping Banks Honest
Bill talks with financial expert Sheila Bair about the lawlessness of our banking system and the prognosis for meaningful reform. Bair was appointed in 2006 by President George W. Bush to chair the FDIC. During the 2008 meltdown, she
A Statement From The Occupy Student Debt Campaign
Everybody is now talking about the student debt crisis, but nothing is being done about it. Thanks in large part to the great public amplifier of the Occupy movement, this year’s presidential contenders have been forced to embrace
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