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With President Obama’s signature on 21 July 2010, consumer protections were established and strengthened regulations were put in place that will provide increased oversight and transparency of the financial sector as a whole. Throughout the campaign for financial reform, progressive advocates made sure that the…

By Sy Larson.  Social Security celebrated its 75th birthday on Saturday, offering us the opportunity to reflect on the importance of the nation's most successful social program.The Social Security Act was signed into law on Aug. 14, 1935, and since then has become the backbone…

By Katy Chance.  A “ROLLICKING story of how, by stealth, an Irish American obsessed with secrecy built a business empire and revolutionised philanthropy”, is how The Economist describes the 2007 book, The Billionaire Who Wasn’t: how Chuck Feeney secretly made and gave away a fortune,…

Gara LaMarche, President and CEO of The Atlantic Philanthropies, addressed the National University of Ireland-Galway's Life Course Institute Seminar. He commented that Life Course projects are important because they are not just about “treating” disadvantage in old age or in youth, but are about breaking…

Someone accused of killing a white person in North Carolina is nearly three times as likely to get the death penalty than someone accused of killing a black person, according to a study released Thursday by two researchers who looked at death sentences over a…

By Wilson Johwa. THE government may have chosen to deny the existence of xenophobic violence but was better prepared for it than in 2008, says Gerald Kraak, South African head of the US foundation Atlantic Philanthropies. After the 2008 attacks it commissioned a study whose…

By Harry McGee.  Legislation giving effect to civil partnerships passed all stages in the Seanad by 48 to four votes tonight.The first civil registrations for same-sex couples are likely to take place next January following overwhelming approval of the enabling legislation by the Oireachtas tonight.The…

By Gara LaMarche.  It’s bold of Jeff Madrick, a journalist who writes about economics in The New York Review of Books and elsewhere, to title this book “The Case for Big Government.”  Despite the colossal failures of government in recent years -- from the inadequate…

By Michelle McDonagh. It is estimated that up to 5 per cent of older Irish people are victims of elder abuse, although some advocates for the elderly believe this figure represents only the tip of the iceberg and that the actual extent of abuse still…

Gara LaMarche, Atlantic's President and CEO addressed the 2010 graduating class at the Children's Defense Fund Freedom Schools in Haley Farm, Knoxville, Tennessee. I want to start out by saying that I have no recollection of the commencement address when I graduated from St. Bernard’s…