March 18th, 2008
Source: KARK Channel 4 News
Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel on March 18, 2008, held a news conference to announce that he was ordering payday lenders in Arkansas to cease making loans and to forgive existing loan debt. Michael Rowett, Research and Communications Manager for Southern Good Faith Fund’s Public Policy program, serves as Chairman of Arkansans Against Abusive Payday Lending and was interviewed for this news story.
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Archive: March 2008 | Section: Media, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
March 11th, 2008
Source: KARK Channel 4 News
Southern Good Faith Fund and its parent company, Southern Bancorp Inc., provide free tax preparation to hundreds of Arkansans each year as part of the Internal Revenue Service’s Volunteer Income Tax Preparation (VITA) program. Southern Good Faith Fund President Angela Duran discussed how the VITA program increases participants’ assets in an interview following a March 11, 2008, news conference highlighting Southern’s VITA services.
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Archive: March 2008 | Section: Media, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
January 29th, 2008
Source: KTHV Channel 11
The debate over increasing the severance tax on natural gas is building momentum in Arkansas.
Right now, gas companies pay Arkansas three-tenths of a cent for every 1,000 cubic feet taken from the Fayetteville shale play. The rate is one of the lowest in the country.
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Archive: January 2008 | Section: Media, Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
January 28th, 2008
Governor Mike Beebe, accompanied by students from Helena-West Helena; Southern Good Faith Fund Public Policy Program Director Mike Leach and officials from several state agencies, officially kicked off the state’s new Aspiring Scholars Matching Grant Program with a news conference at Pulaski Heights Elementary School in Little Rock on January 18, 2008. Aspiring Scholars will offer matching funds for eligible families who save money for college in the state’s GIFT College Investing Plan.
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Archive: January 2008 | Section: Aspiring Scholars, Media, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
November 26th, 2007
By Jessica Dean / KATV Channel 7 News
What happens when parents, students and teachers all commit to a student’s success? If the KIPP Delta College Preparatory School in Helena-West Helena is any indication, that combination can be powerful and productive.
The KIPP charter schools began in 1994 in Houston when two young teachers, frustrated with the public school system, decided to do something about it.
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Archive: November 2007 | Section: Delta Bridge Project, KIPP School, Media, Phillips County, Southern Bancorp, Video
