Southern Bancorp’s comprehensive community revitalization efforts in Helena-West Helena were featured on an award winning AETN documentary titled “Delta Dreams.” The documentary won a Silver Screen Award in the social issues category of the U.S. International Film and Video Festival.
Archive: June 2008 | Section: Phillips County, Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern CDC, Southern Financial Partners, Southern Good Faith Fund
Attorney General Dustin McDaniel has become the champion of payday lending opponents, vowing to shut down an industry that they say preys on the poor and traps them in debt.
Archive: April 2008 | Section: Other Related News, Public Policy, Southern Good Faith Fund
LITTLE ROCK - Payday lenders throughout Arkansas must shut down immediately or face the likelihood of lawsuits, Attorney General Dustin McDaniel said Tuesday.
McDaniel said he sent letters to about 60 companies that run 156 payday lending outlets in Arkansas, telling them to cease and desist their practices.
Archive: March 2008 | Section: Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund
LITTLE ROCK (AP) — Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel moved Tuesday to shut down payday lending companies in the state, saying the fees they charge harmed the working poor and violated the state constitution’s ban on high-interest loans.
McDaniel sent letters to about 60 companies that operate 156 payday lending locations in the state, asking them to shut down immediately and void customers’ debts or face the likelihood of lawsuits.
Archive: March 2008 | Section: Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund
Southern Good Faith Fund’s Policy Team has been leading the Arkansans Against Payday Lending coalition.
Good news out of Arkansas: after a hard-fought legal and political battle, the state should soon be rid of predatory payday lending.
Archive: March 2008 | Section: Other Related News, Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund
The future of Arkansas is in the hands of the children and education officials, along with Sen. Gilbert Baker, visited Sallie Cone Elementary School Friday to present a new way to make the future a little brighter.
Archive: February 2008 | Section: Aspiring Scholars, Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund
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.
Archive: January 2008 | Section: Media, Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
LITTLE ROCK— Southern Good Faith Fund’s Public Policy program today released a report that proposes creating an Arkansas Promise Trust Fund to help more Arkansans go to college, financed by an increase in the state’s historically low severance tax on natural gas.
Archive: January 2008 | Section: Press Releases, Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund
There are an estimated 28 million” unbanked” and 44.7 million “underbanked” people in the United States today, representing a potential market of 40 million households with little or no current relationship with a financial institution.
Archive: December 2007 | Section: Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - More than a third of the payday lenders operating in Arkansas are not being regulated, opponents of the lending practice said in a study released Wednesday.
The study by Arkansans Against Abusive Payday Lending, a coalition of groups seeking to end the practice of payday loans, said the state has improved its licensing of payday lenders but called for more oversight.
Archive: December 2007 | Section: Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund
