by Liz Ryan Murray | Feb 17, 2017 | Blog
Watching the bumbling circus that is the Trump White House means watching a master class in malevolent ineptitude. But below the bumbling circus, real and really terrifying policy is getting made. In Congress right now, that malevolence is focused and calculatingly...
by Liz Ryan Murray | Oct 6, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
You wouldn’t toss a drowning man a life vest filled with cement and claim to be their savior. Neither would you take credit for offering gasoline to a family whose house was on fire. Offering a 300 percent interest loan to someone struggling to pay the bills is just...
by Liz Ryan Murray | Jun 2, 2016 | Blog, Financial Reform
The stories are endless. ● A woman in Wisconsin cashed out her retirement savings of $28,000 to help her daughter get out from under a payday loan that started as just a few hundred dollars to help pay the bills. ● A man in Alabama took out a title loan...
by Liz Ryan Murray | Jan 11, 2016 | Blog, Economy, Election 2016, Progressive Vision
In South Carolina on Saturday, the Republican candidates for president got together to discuss what they would do to address poverty in America. If you missed it, they promised that if elected they would do everything in their power to make things worse by cutting...