Archive: Marc Dann

• WCP: A Working-Class Bill of Rights

  A Working-Class Bill of Rights: The principles of equality, opportunity, and justice that are so often invoked by American leaders have always been more about aspirations than reality. What would it

  Categories: News, Working-Class Perspectives Tags: Leo Jennings III, Marc Dann

• WCP: Time to Deliver: How Biden Should Respond to the Insurrection

  The insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 has multiple roots, but one contributing factor is clear: the erosion of hope among tens of millions of people who no longer have faith in the Americ

  Category: News Tags: Marc Dann, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Grifting the Working Class

  Since the 2016 election, pundits have pondered how a man who began his campaign by gliding down an escalator in a gaudy Manhattan skyscraper festooned with his name managed to ride working-class resentment and anxiety to the presidency. How did a billionaire steal blue-collar Democratic voters right out from under Hillary Clinton’s upturned nose in broad daylight?

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Austerity, Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, Consumer Protection, Corporate Judiciary, Donald Trump, Marc Dann, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• 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: For-Profit Colleges: Rough Times Ahead for Working-Class Students

  For-profit colleges promise a quality education and job training, but often fail working-class students and leave them struggling to stay afloat. The past decade has seen a number of measures introd

  Category: Visiting Scholars Tags: Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, Emily White, For-Profit Colleges, Higher education, John Russo, Marc Dann, Sherry Linkon, Student Loans, WCP, Working-Class Perspectives

• WCP: Fighting the Money Mongers

  As we learned from the Wells Fargo scandal, banks have the capacity to rob poor and working-class people. Consumers have little recourse when this occurs because they cannot afford the legal costs o

  Categories: Bargaining for the Common Good, Visiting Scholars Tags: Arbitration, Banking, Bargaining for the Common Good, Big Banks, Finance, John Russo, Marc Dann, Ohio, Payday lending, Sherry Linkon, WCP, Wells Fargo, 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