As NPR explains this morning, your chances of winning the $1.4 billion Powerball jackpot are 1000 times worse than picking a particular penny out of a stack the height of the Empire State Building.
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The Post reports that some local police now calculate a person's "threat score" by combining information from social media, drone surveillance, and cameras. Read about it here.
So opines the Washington Post, here.
A scary statistic. The Post has more on what it means and how it has come about.
The Times explains: The number of uninsured Americans has fallen by an estimated 15 million since 2013, thanks largely to the Affordable Care Act. But a new survey, the first detailed study of Americans struggling with medical bills, shows that insurance often fails as a safety net. Health plans often require hundreds or thousands of dollars […]
Vox has this article by writer Harold Pollack on the CARD Act, the credit-card industry, and the value of paying off credit cards every month.
On Monday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released its annual report to Congress on the work of the agency from October 1, 2014 – September 30, 2015. If you missed it then (as I did), the report is here.
…is the headline of this week's NYT story about internal emails at the manufacturer whose airbags have been the subject of a recall after federal regulators recognized that they had the potential to explode and shoot debris at passengers. A taste of the article: “Happy Manipulating!!!” a Takata airbag engineer, Bob Schubert, wrote in one […]
It's been a while since we discussed the Facebook minors'-privacy case, a class action over Facebook's use of members' images in ads without their consent. Public Citizen represented parents who objected to the proposed settlement because it permitted Facebook to continue using their children's images in ads without parental consent — a practice that violates […]
From the Times: Mayor Bill de Blasio is set to announce on Wednesday a $15-an-hour minimum wage for New York City’s public work force that city officials said would be among the highest of its kind in the country. Under the mayor’s plan, which matches a similar increase for state employees enacted by Gov. Andrew […]