The Washington Post reports: The District would become the most generous place in the country for a worker to take time off after giving birth or to care for a dying parent under a measure supported by a majority of the D.C. Council. Under the legislation that will be introduced Tuesday, almost every part-time and […]
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Yesterday, the U.S. and 11 other nations from North and South America, Asia, and the South Pacific reached agreement on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a huge trade deal years in the making. What does the text say? That's still a secret — the New York Times reports that the 30 chapters of the agreement […]
…is the first part of a four-part investigative report by WAMU (Washington D.C.'s NPR affiliate) about exploitative lending practices in the Commonwealth, including how a lender transforms a loan with a capped interest rate into one without. Part I, which aired yesterday, is here. Part II aired this morning and is available here. The remainder […]
Read The Decline of Big Soda by Margot Sanger-Katz in the New York Times. Sanger-Katz explains: Over the last 20 years, sales of full-calorie soda in the United States have plummeted by more than 25 percent. Soda consumption, which rocketed from the 1960s through 1990s, is now experiencing a serious and sustained decline. * * […]
The 2010 Dodd-Frank law prescribed 390 rule-making requirements and 249 now have finalized rules, while another 58 have rule proposals, according to a study by the law firm Davis Polk. That means about one fifth of the required rules haven't even been proposed. You can read about it in the WSJ (subscription required, unfortunately), here. […]
The Washington Post reports on a new study in the American Journal of Epidemiology supporting the conclusion that "The most disadvantaged are more likely — and have grown even more likely over time — to die in car crashes than people who are well-off." Indeed, "the inequality of traffic fatalities is getting worse, even as it […]
Read Karen Heller's article in the Washington Post.
… reports the Times: [T]he soda industry is winning the policy battles over the future of its product. But the bigger picture is that soda companies are losing the war. Even as anti-obesity campaigners like [Philadelphia Mayor Michael A.] Nutter have failed to pass taxes, they have accomplished something larger. In the course of the fight, […]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau yesterday announced an enforcement action against an indirect auto finance company and its auto title lending subsidiary for pressuring borrowers using illegal debt collection tactics. The CFPB found that Westlake Services, LLC and Wilshire Consumer Credit, LLC deceived consumers by calling under false pretenses and using phony caller ID information, […]
Over two years, a hack of Experian apparently acquired the records of 15 million T-Mobile customers and people who had applied for credit. Experian, the vendor that processes T-Mobile's credit applications. T-Mobile's CEO posted a letter on the company's website to explain: We have been notified by Experian, a vendor that processes our credit applications, […]