07 May 2021
A national survey of Travellers Choice members has revealed unprecedented approval ratings for the agency network’s ongoing response to the COVID-19 crisis.
A resounding 100 per cent of Travellers Choice agents who took part in the annual survey expressed satisfaction with their membership of the national network, with almost two-thirds declaring themselves ‘more than satisfied’.
Members took the opportunity to laud the group’s removal of membership fees for the 2020-21 financial year, its reduction in web-hosting fees and the speed with which it delivered a robust template for agency terms and conditions.
In addition, Travellers Choice agents overwhelmingly endorsed the uninterrupted support provided by the group’s network of state-based business development managers, which has remained intact throughout the crisis.
Accounting, Ops, MLO Jobs; AMC, Lead, Warehouse Products; Financial Transparency; Employment Figures Sink Rates May 7 2021, 8:23AM
It’s Friday, so how ‘bout some non-mortgage supply and demand stuff? Let me start with an apology to Willie Mays’ family (who may or may not read this daily mortgage commentary) for missing his 90th birthday yesterday. (Years ago he was known for welcoming all ‘trick or treat’ kids, from anywhere, at Halloween, so we went. Yep, there he was!) There is only one Willie Mays. On the other hand, last year there were too many strawberries and Driscoll’s, which grows fresh berries, had to send $20 million worth of unwanted fresh berries to be frozen or juiced at a large loss. So it cut production on strawberries (which take a year of planning) by 5 percent, a bad call given that two months later berry sales exploded 8 percent by volume compared to the previous year and wholesale prices have hit $18 for an 8 pound flat,
Danae Columbus
Louisiana Republican Party Chair Louis Gurvich greets MAGA activist Scott Presler yesterday at The Cannery, 3803 Toulouse St.
Scott Presler is on a mission to convince Republican voters that they must take personal responsibility for their party and America’s future. “You can make a difference. I dare you to say, ‘I will!’” Presley issued the challenge to an enthusiastic audience of 100 plus Republicans, including former congressional candidate Claston Bernard, Wednesday (May 5), the night before President Joe Biden’s visit to New Orleans, at The Cannery in Mid-City.
A Navy brat and former dog walker who has become the darling of conservative Republicans around the country, Presler is in New Orleans on a three-day tour to build party leadership, raise money, and rally grassroots support for litter clean-up and other community campaigns. An honors graduate of George Mason University, Presler is a successful activist with 806,000 followers on Twitter
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We will never achieve true equity and inclusion in our community without also solving for digital inclusion, something now tantalizingly possible with funding from the recently passed $1.9 TRILLION American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, or ARPA.
In this age of COVID-19, high-speed internet access is every bit as critical for daily life as water or electricity. Imagine being unable to complete an online job application, let alone work from home. Imagine your kids doing their online learning on an old smartphone. Imagine having to secure your vaccine appointment by phone. Imagine trying to access the digital world if you don’t have the hand function or vision to operate a computer due to a disability. Imagine choosing between paying for internet access or feeding your family.
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President Biden’s rollout this week of his $1.8 trillion American Families Plan has resulted in a flood of analysis and commentary befitting the size of the proposals. Here, a selection of key responses and takeaways.
This is what the U.S. needs: Biden proposed “what amounts to a revision of America’s social contract, giving the country something closer to the social safety net that most of the world’s advanced democracies have,” The Washington Post’s David Ignatius writes. “The cost is enormous. … But it’s the right thing to do. For a generation, the unfair distribution of rewards in the American economy has been our glaring weakness. It crushed the middle class and fueled the bizarro billionaire populist crusade of Donald Trump, who nearly wrecked our politics. Changing the formula so that rich people get less and everybody else gets more will be hard, but it’s necessary.”