New Cop on the Beat: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
It has been a year since the passage of the Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights, also known as the Credit Card Act. Along with Wall Street reform and the creation of the new Consumer Financial Protection...
View ArticleYoung Women Need Paid Sick Days (Too)
by Claudia Williams While some workers lacking paid sick leave can take time off without losing pay, many lose pay when they are out sick and cannot afford to take a single day off. This is...
View ArticleBack to the Future: Young Voters Support Social Security, But Fear for its...
This blog is also posted on the Social Security Media Watch Project. By Leah Josephson As an undergraduate student readying myself to enter the workforce in a struggling economy, I was interested in...
View ArticleAn Unbalanced Debt Deal: Cutting Vital Programs Does Not Address the Deficit
The deal to raise the debt ceiling that may or may not have been reached between President Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner should be rejected by members of the House and Senate if it is as...
View ArticleThe ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Fix—Good, Bad, and Ugly
There’s a lot of good news in the deal negotiated by the White House and Congress that resulted in the passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act, signed yesterday by the President. First, we should...
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