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The next fight to protect Main Street

March 16, 2011 By jack-yunits 31 Comments

When introducing his amendment, Senator Durbin highlighted how he first became aware of Visa and MasterCard's stranglehold on the credit card market when the owner of his favorite restaurant complained.  It's the same story you'll hear … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: big-banks, credit, credit-card-companies, debit, dodd-frank, durbin-amendment, financial-reform, small-business, swipe-fees

Alliance to Develop Justice Secures Commitments from Elected Officials for Social Justice

October 13, 2010 By adpposts Leave a Comment

The Real Story The headlines are familiar: The economy is fragile, Economists meeting in Denver share gloom as they consider next step, unemployment is high: one in 10 Americans is unemployed - not counting the people whose unemployment … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: adp, alliance-to-develop-power, annual-convention, banks, economy, financial-reform, gov.-deval-patrick, green-economy, immigration, sen.-scott-brown, small-businesses, social-justice, sustainable-community, workers-center/casa-obrera

Historic Bill Signing with President Obama

July 21, 2010 By marthacoakley 6 Comments

As your Attorney General for the last three and a half years, I have seen how important this kind of financial reform has become for consumers.  Since the onset of the economic crisis, we’ve worked at the state level to hold Wall … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: attorney-general, financial-reform, martha-coakley, national, wall-street-reform

Alliance to Develop Power meets with U.S. Senator Scott Brown to Discuss Economic Crisis

July 13, 2010 By alliance-to-develop-power 2 Comments

On July 8, members of Alliance to Develop Power met with Senator Scott Brown at his office in Boston. The 60 minute meeting, the first meeting of the Senator's tenure with a grassroots community organization, was largely focused on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: adp, alliance-to-develop-power, economy, financial-reform, jobs, scott-brown, senator, unemployment

Sen. Scott Brown: Wall Street, Main Street … or State Street?

June 24, 2010 By Charley on the MTA 3 Comments

Wow, real man-of-the-people we elected here. Senate staffers tonight are hammering out the shape of the so-called Volcker rule, which would limit insured financial firms' ability to take speculative bets with their capital, or … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: financial-reform, finreg, scott-brown, senate, wall-street

Your liberal media (again)?

April 22, 2010 By Steve Stein 6 Comments

You guessed it - still not liberal. In their story about President Obama's speech on financial reform this evening (5 PM), the WBZ news-reader (Diane Stern?) reported: "Republicans claim that the financial reform measure will encourage more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: financial-reform, media, wbz

Wall Street – from their perspective.

April 9, 2010 By liveandletlive 3 Comments

It is interesting to listen to the talk on Wall Street, and the way they feel put upon by government and society.  They think Tim Geithner is "solid" and the good guy.  They spin tax numbers to make it seem like they are going to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: financial-reform, lobbying, progressive-tax, protests, unions, wall-street

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Woke up sick about the state, which has so badly mismanaged so much of the COVID-19 response for the entire year, insisting their judgment should be substituted for local districts when they have made it clear they both don’t know and don’t care about local conditions. #MAEdu

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My unsolicited environmental recommendation of the day: this episode of "Why Is This Happening?"

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OPINION: Despite the governor's shortcomings -- most recently, the rollout of the COVID vaccine -- none of the state's Democrats show any interest in challenging him in 2022. https://wbur.fm/3k9W2nf

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OPINION: Despite the governor's shortcomings -- most recently, the rollout of the COVID vaccine -- none of the state's Democrats show any interest in challenging him in 2022. https://wbur.fm/3k9W2nf

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