Economy

Reports by our partner organizations about the economy:

• Pinklining
  How Wall Street’s Predatory Products Pillage Women’s Wealth, Opportunities, and Futures
  Suparna Bhaskaran | Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, ISAIAH, and New Jersey Communities United | June 2016

• Untamed
  How to Check Corporate, Financial, and Monopoly Power
  Nell Abernathy, Mike Konczal, and Kathryn Milani
  Roosevelt Institute | June 2016

• The State of the Bank Employee on Wall Street
  Jordana Hoyt | The Committee for Better Banks | December 2013

• Predatory Payday Lending In Minnesota
  How U.S. Bank and Wells Fargo hurt consumers with ‘Cash Fast’ loans
  Minnesotans for a Fair Economy | April 2013

• Meet California’s 1%
  How Wall Street’s Banks, Big Corporations & the Super Rich Are Killing the Recovery
  SEIU, Jobs With Justice, University of California Student Association, California Federation of Teachers, Communities for a New California, University of California Employees, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment | April 2012

• Pulling Back the Curtain
  The 1% Behind the 2011 Big Bank Bonuses
  The New Bottom Line | January 2012

• Illinois Banks and Corporations’ Impact on the State’s Economic and Budget Crisis
  Make Wall Street Pay Illinois Coalition | May 2011

• Bank of America in Connecticut: Profiting Without Pitching In
  Connecticut Action Alliance for a Fair Economy | April 2011

• Big Banks Bonus Bonanza
  National People’s Action, PICO, ACCE, Northwest Foundation of Community Organizations, SEIU | December 2010

• Building State Development Banks
  Service Employees International Union | 2010

• Wake Up Wall Street
  While Californians Must Choose Between Education and Public Services… Wall Street Banks Owe California Billions
  Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment | August 2010

• Money for Nothing
  How Wall Street Gets Rich by Bleeding Main Street Dry and Producing Nothing of Value for Our Economy
  Service Employees International Union | May 2010

• The Trillion Dollar Bank Job
  How Wall Street and the Big Banks Are Holding Up America’s Economic Recovery
  Service Employees International Union |September 2009

• Small Business Lending at Bank of America
  Service Employees International Union | July 2009

• Bank of America: A Billionaires Boondoggle
  Service Employees International Union | January 2009

• Higher Standards?
  What America’s biggest bank owes its customers and Countrywide borrowers
  Community Reinvestment Coalition of North Carolina, California Reinvestment Coalition, SEIU, U.S. Public Interest Research Group | April 2008

• A Change For The Worse
  How the “Bank of Opportunity” Is Closing Doors on Chicago’s Workers and Communities
  The Save Chicago Jobs and Community Investment Coalition | September 2007