Archive: Financial Crisis

• WCP: Profiting from the Working Class: How the Opioid Epidemic Echoes the Mortgage Crisis

  In this week’s Working-Class Perspective, Marc Dann and Leo Jennings III draw frightening parallels between the opioid epidemic and the subprime mortgage crisis. They call on the Department of Justice to do what it failed to do in 2009: prosecute Wall Street executives whose greed devastate working-class Americans.

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Big Pharma, Department of Justice, Financial Crisis, John Russo, Leo Jennings III, Marc Dann, Mortgage Crisis, Opioid Crisis, Sherry Linkon, Wall Street, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Defending the Working Class from Financial Abuse

  Recent regulations help consumers hire lawyers, defend against lawsuits, and win favorable decisions in court against big businesses and corporations. In Working-Class Perspectives, attorney Marc Da

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Big Banks, Consumer Protection, Dodd-Frank, Financial Crisis, John Russo, Marc Dann, Regulation, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: The Foreclosure Crisis: At the Movies

  The Big Short is a fantastic film that brilliantly depicts the greed and recklessness on Wall Street that led to the Great Recession. Yet as former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann reminds us in this

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: 99 Homes, Economic Policy Institute, Financial Crisis, Great Recession, Homeowners, Housing, John Russo, Marc Dann, Sherry Linkon, the Big Short, Wall Street, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives