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2014 Media Round-Up
A snapshot of New Economy Project’s media coverage in 2014.
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Have We Learned Nothing?
Posted by Josh Zinner — Events in Congress last week provide a painful reminder that the Too Big To Fail banks and their allies in Congress are completely unbowed by the events leading up the global financial crisis. Now more powerful than ever, the big banks will stop at nothing to gut even modest reform.
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NYC, Repeat After Me: “Community Land Trusts”
Posted by Claudia Wilner — On November 17, affordable housing advocates and developers, community groups, and unions gathered at City Hall for a hearing on the Mayor’s plan to create or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing over the next 10 years. New Economy Project testified at the hearing on behalf of NYC Community Land…
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NYS Department of Financial Services: New Regulation of Debt Collection Practices
NYS Department of Financial Services, Press Release — Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced new, nation-leading reforms that will protect consumers against abusive and deceptive debt collection practices.
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Epoch Times: NY Bank Offers Throw Financial Lifeline to the Needy
Epoch Times — New York is considering a novel solution to alleviate the lending needs of credit-strapped low-income consumers called “borrow and save,” a type of loan designed to simultaneously extend credit lines to the needy and help them rejoin the financial mainstream.
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Steal This Poster
Hot off the presses! We’re excited to share with you a new economic justice resource: Change It Up: How Banks Shape Communities and the Economy….and What You Can Do About It. New Economy Project teamed up with the Center for Urban Pedagogy and graphic designer Manuel Miranda to produce this fold-out poster, which tells the…
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Main Street: More than Half of Americans Who Overdraft Have The Same Ailment
Main Street — Some 50% of Americans who fall into overdraft do so, because they don’t know their account balance, according to a recent survey from GoBankingRates. That lack of knowledge is extra dangerous when it comes to the overdraft policies of banks, and consumer advocates are fighting back to end these misleading overdraft bank…
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Allow Us to Reintroduce Ourselves….
Welcome to New Economy Project’s new website and blog! We are beyond thrilled to have our new website up and running – replacing our original site built for us way back in (cough cough) 2001. Now that we have a site as fresh and dynamic as our new name, mission and campaigns, we hope you’ll…
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WSHU: Banks Agree To Block Payday Lenders
WSHU — Four additional banks have agreed to block online payday lenders from accessing customer accounts in New York. The agreement comes as the banks’ processing network remains silent on efforts to keep the illegal loans from crossing state borders.
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NY1: New Economy Project Speaks on New Debt Collection Rules
NY1 — Senior Staff Attorney Claudia Wilner and client Marquisha Parker appear on NY1’s “Inside City Hall” to discuss the broken debt collection system and recent reforms in New York State’s courts.
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American Banker: Banks Could Be Next Target in Debt Collection Litigation
American Banker — Just when it seemed that some banks might be putting their legal woes behind them, another threat has emerged that could involve the entire industry — debt- collections litigation.
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People’s Climate March
Thanks to all who joined New Economy Project at the People’s Climate March on Sunday, September 21st. Check out our contingent’s photos from a truly inspiring day.