Third World America - Arianna Huffington [112]
86 We launched the Move Your Money campaign: Ibid.
87 Bill Maher compared moving your money to ending: Bill Maher, “Stop the Abuse: It’s Time to Break Up with Your Big Bank,” 13 Jan. 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com.
88 About 2 million people, in every region: Dennis Santiago, “For Bigger Banks, Deposits Remain Sticky,” 10 May 2010, www.huffingtonpost.com.
89 One of them, H. Lee Grove, wrote: Comment by H. Lee Grove in the Huffington Post, 7 Jan. 2010.
90 Consumer credit unions are not owned by shareholders: Bob Trebilcock, “Bye, Bye, Banks: Time to Join a Credit Union,” CBS Money Watch, 12 Jan. 2010, www.bnet.com.
91 Since their goal is not to maximize short-term profit: Péralte C. Paul, “Credit Unions Fare Better in Banking Downturn,” 14 May 2010, www.ajc.com.
92 Nearly ninety million Americans belong to credit unions: John Hielscher, “Region’s Credit Unions Weather Downturn,” 31 May 2010, www.heraldtribune.com.
93 Around 70 percent of credit union mortgages: Frank Michael, testimony before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate, 8 Jul. 2009, www.banking.senate.gov.
94 (The exceptions are corporate credit unions …): Mark Maremont, “U.S. Moves to Bail Out Credit Union Network,” 29 Jan. 2009, www.wsj.com.
95 “A credit union saved me from Bank of America”: Joe McKesson, in response to a Facebook and Twitter request from the author, spring 2009.
96 “All I can say is that nothing beats the personal …”: Consuelo Flores, in response to a Facebook and Twitter request from the author, spring 2009.
97 Deborah Bohn’s nineteen-year-old daughter: Deborah Bohn, in response to a Facebook and Twitter request from the author, spring 2009.
98 20 percent of households can afford: “Hello Wallet: Our Story,” www.hellowallet.com.
99 Witness HelloWallet.com, a start-up: Keith Epstein. “Will HelloWallet Transform Online Financial Advice?” 29 Sep. 2009, www.businessweek.com.
100 The site will automatically find: www.hellowallet.com.
101 Best of all, the site is: “HelloWallet: We make banks work for you,” www.hellowallet.com.
102 Another good online tool is: Virginia Heffernan, “Home Economics,” 21 May 2009, www.nytimes.com.
103 And it’s important to keep track of your credit report: Liz Pulliam Weston, “Raise Your Credit Score to 740,” 10 Mar. 2010, www.moneycentral.msn.com.
104 In April 2010, President Obama issued a proclamation: Barack Obama, presidential proclamation on Financial Literacy Month, 2 Apr. 2010, www.whitehouse.gov.
105 I was reading Consumer Reports and came across: “The New Money Rules,” May 2009, www.consumerreports.org.
106 Or, as Suze Orman puts it, “No Blame, No Shame …”: Suze Orman, “Suze Orman’s 10 Tips for a Fresh Financial Start,” 16 Dec. 2008, www.oprah.com.
107 Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatté: Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatté, The Resilience Factor (New York: Broadway Books, 2002), 1, 3–4.
108 Dominique Browning, who lost her job as editor in chief: Dominique Browning, “Losing It,” 22 Mar. 2010, www.nytimes.com.
109 Indeed, after being fired she went through: Dominique Browning, Slow Love (New York: Atlas, 2010), 148.
110 But slowly, she began: Ibid., 23.
111 Eventually, things turned around for her: Ibid., 5, 165.
112 Take the case of Annette Arca: Lynnette Curtis, “Jobless Volunteer Has Time to Spare,” 16 Nov. 2010, www.lvrj.com.
113 Then there’s Seth Reams, who lost his job as a concierge: Nancy Wood, “After Losing His Job, Portland Man Founds a New Nonprofit,” 6 May 2009, www.komonews.com.
114 More projects soon followed: Seth Reams, “People Call Us with Tales of Hunger, Home Loss, Job Loss, Personal Loss, and Myriad Difficulties,” 6 May 2010, www.wevegottimetohelp.blogspot.com.
115 “The ultimate measure of a man or woman”: Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1963), 35.
116 After spending months embedded: Sebastian Junger on Peal Time with Bill Maher, 14 May 2010, www.hbo.com.
117 But twenty-six