Archive:Great Recession

• WCP: Predatory Lenders Making American Nightmares From American Dreams

  As if losing their homes during the foreclosure crisis was not cruel enough, working-class families are now being lured by predatory lenders into deceptive rent-to-own contracts. As Wade Rathke expl

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Affordable Housing, Akron, Foreclosure Crisis, Foreclosures, Great Recession, John Russo, Philadelphia, Rent-to-Own Contracts, Sherry Linkon, Wade Rathke, Wall Street, 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