North Little Rock may ban any new check cashing and pay day loan companies from coming into the city. It’s the latest in a series of bans that cover everything from pit bulls to novelty lighters. Is North Little Rock ban happy or just a progressive city taking action when needed?
Archive: August 2007 | Section: Public Policy, Video, Media, Southern Good Faith Fund, Southern Bancorp
Project Deserve, a fund established by Entergy Arkansas to help elderly and disabled customers pay their electric bills in times of financial crisis, has begun its 25th year in 2007 with a new fund administrator, Southern Good Faith Fund.
Archive: April 2007 | Section: Video, Media, Southern Good Faith Fund, Southern Bancorp
Angela Duran, President of Southern Good Faith Fund was named Nonprofit Executive of the Year at the 2006 Arkansas Business of the Year Awards.
Archive: March 2007 | Section: Video, Southern Good Faith Fund, Southern Bancorp
America’s personal savings rate is abysmally low. Last year the personal savings rate was negative, the lowest annual rate since the Great Depression. Whether the objective is to promote retirement security, improve educational attainment or increase financial literacy, the need to increase household savings is vitally clear.
Archive: March 2007 | Section: Video, Public Policy, Media, Other Related News, Southern Good Faith Fund, Southern Bancorp
Mike Leach, Director of Southern Good Faith Fund’s Public Policy Program, during a news conference at the state Capitol in January 2007 explains a report by the Policy Program that proposes creation of an Arkansas Higher Education Trust Fund to make college possible for every Arkansan. The report proposes that the Higher Education Trust Fund be financed from revenues generated by increasing Arkansas’ severance tax on natural gas production, which is the lowest in the nation and was last increased in 1957.
Archive: January 2007 | Section: Public Policy, Video, Media, Southern Good Faith Fund, Southern Bancorp
