by Paul Kiel The government's largest effort to compensate victims of the banks' foreclosure practices is finally sputtering to an end. But for most of those eligible – nearly three million borrowers – it won't be much of an ending: they'll be receiving a check for $300 to ...read more

The typical American family lost nearly 40% of its wealth from 2007 to 2010 as the Great Recession reduced household net worth to a level not seen since the early 1990s. The net worth of the median U.S. family — one with an equal number of families richer and poorer — fell to ...read more

A great report from The Real News on black activists joining the struggle against foreclosures with the Occupy Wall St movement: ...read more