Statement from Maine Small Business Coalition spokesperson David White on the financial reform bill, which cleared a cloture vote in the U.S Senate just before noon today: “Main Street won out over Wall Street today. By regulating derivatives and other risky investment schemes, the financial reform bill will encourage banks to get back to basics
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 15, 2010 CONTACT: Tiffiniy Cheng 413-637-6255 Zephyr Teachout 802-922-1719 ANWF: The Finreg Bill Proves The Banks Proved the Banks Can be Beaten Worcestor, MA – A New Way Forward, an online organization that has been fighting for structural reform for since March 2009, with over 24,000 members, released the following statement
With the landmark passage of the Financial Reform Bill now a part of history, Heather Booth, director of Americans for Financial Reform, took the time to describe the ups and downs of the long-fought battle for reform in The Huffington Post. Here is an excerpt from that article: Nearly two years after the reckless behavior
July 12, 2010. The last time Margot and I were together pushing for Wall Street reform, it was April 21st of this year in a press conference at the U.S. Capitol with Senators Dick Durbin, Jack Reed and Michael Bennet. Back then we were fighting against the misinformation coming from the big financial institutions and
Statement Margot Dorfman, CEO U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce July 12, 2010 On behalf of the U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce and the millions of small businesses, employees of small businesses and communities all across the United States that rely upon growth and stability of small businesses, I call upon Congress and President Obama to
According to James K. Galbraith, author of The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too, the financial crisis is not yet over; we are barely beginning to recover. In a piece he recently wrote for The New Republic, he talks about what needs to be done in order for