This week I’m off to DC to join David Levine, co-founder and director of the American Sustainable Business Council, in a media tour for the ASBC (I serve as vice-chair of the organization). We will be doing a few other things including have discussions with the Americans for Financial Reform and hopefully some Congressional staff […]
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State Senator Jake Knotts of Lexington County, South Carolina, is angry. Recently a school district in his county gave the contract to build a new school to a big Chinese general contractor that had the low bid. Senator Knotts shares the outrage of many of his constituents. While a local architectural firm is being hired
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Today or tomorrow all 50 states are expected to sign off on a $37 billion settlement with Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Citibank and Ally Financial that will provide compensation to homeowners who were harmed with nefarious foreclosure practices. This deal between the big banks and the states’ attorneys general will result in
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CNN OpinionJanuary, 26, 2012 By David Brodwin, Special to CNN (CNN) — Two years ago, the Supreme Court upended the rules for campaign finance, unleashing a tsunami of unregulated, unrestricted and undisclosed spending that has, in effect, allowed donors to buy elections. The full impact of this decision is just now becoming clear, and it’s
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I’m sending this Congress a plan that gives every responsible homeowner the chance to save about $3,000 a year on their mortgage, by refinancing at historically low interest rates. No more red tape. No more runaround from the banks. A small fee on the largest financial institutions will ensure that it won’t add to the
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One of the issues we are expecting to hear about in President Obama’s State of the Union address tomorrow night is the housing crisis. Economists tell us that the nation’s economy won’t dramatically improve until the housing market stabilizes and demand for new homes gets back on track. That’s how important the housing construction industry
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By Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY January 20, 2012 Want an SBA loan? Don’t bother applying if you needed less than a few hundred thousand dollars. In looking at President Obama‘s just-announced proposal to combine the SBA with five other agencies, I’m fearful we’ll soon return to the days when small business received little attention and
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Amercian Sustainable Business Council FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  January 4, 2011 CONTACT: Amy Kennedy, 703-302-8392; Tanara Bowie, tbowie@tigercomm.us, 703-302-8383 WASHINGTON, DC—Today, the American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC), a network of business organizations representing more than 100,000 companies and 300,000 business leaders, applauded President Obama’s appointment of Richard Cordray as head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has issued its findings on why the Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF) passed by Congress in 2010 turned into an abysmal failure in promoting loans to small businesses. Only 332 of the 935 community banks applying for the extremely low interest funds to be used for the loans were
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The high drama is back in Washington as this Friday is the deadline for passage of a spending bill that will keep the doors open on the federal government. Getting that done is intricately married to passing legislation to extend the payroll tax cut for 160 million working Americans and also extending federal unemployment benefits.
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