Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA was recently featured in Devex speaking on trade. Read excerpt below and follow link to full article.

What Trump's Dumping of Trade Agreements Means for Developing Countries

By: Lisa Cornish

“'It’s absolutely clear across the United States that struggling, working class people elected Trump, and one of the issues that was absolutely critical for the voting population was how trade is impacting jobs in the United States,' Eric LeCompte, executive director of Jubilee USA, told Devex. It’s something that was a force in putting Trump into office.'”

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A program sponsored by Jubilee USA was recently featured in Catholic News Service. Read excerpt below and follow link to full article.

Pope Prioritizes Need for an Economy that Includes Poor, Archbishop Says

By: Dennis Sadowski

"Archbishop Roberto Gonzalez Nieves of San Juan, Puerto Rico, described how the country's debt crisis continues to plague the island. He said that despite passage in July of a bill by the U.S. Congress allowing for the restructuring of the island's $72 billion in debt, schools continue to close, health care options are reduced and infrastructure is being ignored.

'Puerto Rico and its creditors need to work together and find a way for Puerto Rico to pay back without placing a huge burden on the poor,' Archbishop Gonzalez said."

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Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA was featured in IPS speaking on debt restructuring. Read excerpt below and follow link to full article.

Options Lacking to Help Developing Countries Avoid Debt Crises

By: Tharanga Yakupitiyage and Lyndal Rowlands

"LeCompte echoed similar sentiments, highlighting the importance of laws around responsible and sustainable lending and borrowing.

'We need to figure out, at the United Nations, how do we start to move [debt restructuring] into soft law, how do we start to create a framework and structure that allows…for problems to be worked out in a more responsible way,' he told IPS."

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Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA was recently featured in National Catholic Reporter speaking on the role of Catholic leadership in political advocacy. Read excerpt below and follow link to full article.

Previewing the USCCB Meeting: the Good the Conference Achieves

By: Michael Sean Winters

"The USCCB was essential to the passage of the ​Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act​, or PROMESA, legislation that set up a fiscal control board to help restructure the island government's debt. And, most especially, they fought for and won an amendment that charges the control board, by statute, with ameliorating childhood poverty on the island, which is near sixty percent. 'The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the leadership‎ of Archbisop Wenski were amazing,' says Eric LeCompte, executive director of JubileeUSA, which also pulled out all the stops to pass the legislation. 'It was their efforts that allowed members of Congress to understand that more than a financial crisis, we were dealing with a humanitarian crisis. When members of Congress were unsure of how to move forward, Catholic bishops and partners like Catholic Charities played pivotal roles. It's interesting to note that many of the decision makers that facilitated a solution are Catholic.'"

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Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA was recently featured in Public Finance International speaking on illicit financial flows and transparency. Read excerpt below and follow link to full article.

Fresh Tax Leak Names Directors of Secretive Offshore Firms

By: Emma Rumney

"Eric LeCompte, executive director of the Jubilee USA network, which advocates for a world economy that works for the poorest, described the leak as the 'sequel' to the Panama Papers, and another example of how 'money laundering, corruption and tax evasion thrive in the dark.'"

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Jubilee USA's work on tax and transparency was recently featured on CCTV. View below or on Youtube. 

Darrin Brown discusses global tax issues

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Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA was recently featured in Public Finance International speaking on Mozambique. Read excerpt below and follow link to full article.

Mozambique to Cooperate with IMF on Public Debt Audit

By: Emma Rumney

"Eric LeCompte, executive director of Jubilee USA Network, said his organisation is concerned about how the scandal will impact on [sic] those living in one of the world’s poorest countries.

'Audits are an important accountability tool for citizens,' he said. 'We also need to see improved regulation in the global financial system that encourages budget transparency and promotes responsible lending and borrowing.'"

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Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA was recently featured in Agenzia Fides speaking on Mozambique. Read excerpt below and follow link to full article.

Mozambique President Meets IMF and World Bank as Debt and Corruption Concerns Loom

By: Staff

"'Audits are important government accountability tools for citizens. We also need to see improved regulation in the global financial system that encourages budget transparency and promotes responsible lending and borrowing', concluded LeCompte."

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Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA was recently featured in African Business Review speaking on Mozambique. Read excerpt below and follow link to full article.

Mozambican President to Meet With IMF; What Will the Outcome Be?

By: Wedaeli Chibelushi

"Public budget transparency and responsible lending and borrowing are critical for protecting vulnerable communities. Transparency and accountability ensure that loan money is used to invest in communities that need that investment and that the public has a voice in how its government spends public dollars. What happens in Mozambique could set important precedents for how debt is audited and how governments are held accountable when it comes to spending borrowed funds. We pray that vulnerable communities are not affected by the sins of its government and creditors."

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Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA was recently featured in Reuters speaking on Mozambique. Read excerpt below and follow link to full article.

IMF Says Mozambique President to Cooperate on Debt Audit

By: David Lawder

"Eric LeCompte, director of Jubilee USA Network, a Washington-based non-profit group that advocates for the world’s poorest people, said he hoped that a balance could be struck between the need for increased transparency of Mozambique’s finances, and the need to restore aid to the country.

'We have to ensure that those who did nothing to create the crisis are not the most impacted by the crisis,' LeCompte told Reuters."

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Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA was recently featured in The Washington Post speaking on Puerto Rico. Read excerpt below and follow link to full article.

Puerto Rico Rescue Bill Clears Congress Days Before Debt Cliff

By: Mike DeBonis and Steven Mufson

"'There can be no economic growth in Puerto Rico until the debt is restructured, so the legislation is an absolutely essential first step,' said Eric LeCompte, executive director of Jubilee USA, a network of mainly religious advocacy groups focused on global debt relief. 'But I think in terms of the real issues facing the island, we are just getting to the end of the beginning. This is not the beginning of the end.'

In the near term, LeCompte said, the appointments to the oversight board will have significant bearing on Puerto Rico’s path forward. Over the longer term, the island faces bigger questions about how it can reverse its economic decline and whether to revisit its status as a U.S. territory."

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Eric LeCompte, Executive Director of Jubilee USA was recently noted in The Hill. Read excerpt below and follow link to full article. 

Congress Can Solve Puerto Rico's Debt Crisis, but Colonial Status Remains a Problem

By: Archbishop Roberto Gonzalez Nieves

"My people are forever in debt to Jubilee USA Network, the religious organization that stood with us when no one else was watching and who built the bipartisan support to pass legislation that can help resolve this crisis."

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