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Below are listed recent articles published by media and journals featuring Appleseed or Appleseed Centers. Entries can be located by both Center and date. To view a list of links to the latest media coverage of issues related to Appleseed projects, please click here.
To view an archive of Appleseed This Week, our weekly newsletter, click here.
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Published on: 5/5/2009
Appleseed and Fonkoze, Haiti's alternative bank for the organized poor, co-sponsored "Dollars and Diaspora," a financial literacy and empowerment conference in New York for Haitian community leaders. Reporting on the event, this op-ed piece highlights the importance of remittances, banking, microfinance, and other financial services.
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Published on: 4/30/2009
Jennifer Carter, director of Nebraska Appleseed's Health Care Access Program, oined a panel on health care reform, answering questions and addressing concerns of local residents.
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Published on: 4/10/2009
Dallas Morning News: A report based on Appleseed's survey of payday borrowers in four Texas cities documents predatory practices and offers several reform proposals endorsed by House members.
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Published on: 4/10/2009
Houton Chronicle Texas Politics Blog: Several state legislators are uniting behind HB 3744, which would create accountability for the payday lending industry, develop a reasonable fee structure and start a system to collect consumer loan data
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Published on: 4/10/2009
Texas schools should use part of $2.2 million federal stimulus package to train teachers statewide in evidence-based classroom management strategies that benefit at-risk and special education students.
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Published on: 3/13/2009
The State: Many state senators share SC Appleseed's view that restrictions on the payday lending industry, as laid out in a recently passed House bill, are too lax.
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Published on: 3/6/2009
Houston Chronicle: HUD approved Texas’ plan for spending $1.3 billion in Community Development Block Grant funds for housing and infrastructure repairs and public services related to Hurricanes Ike and Dolly.
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Published on: 2/16/2009
Dallas Morning News: In this op-ed piece, Texas Appleseed Executive Director draws attention to the deleterious practices of "credit services organizations."
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Published on: 2/5/2009
Essence Magazine: DC Appleseed Executive Director Walter Smith is quoted in this article detailing the startling HIV/AIDS infection rate in the nation's capital.
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Published on: 2/3/2009
The American Banker: Appleseed Fair Exchange partners Wells Fargo and Mitchell Bank call for more competition from other banks in the remittance market. Such competition would improve service for remittance consumers, many of whom subsist on limited incomes.
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