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View ArticleBroad Coalition of Advocates Urges Support for Comprehensive Consumer Credit...
Release Date: May 19, 2016(BOSTON, Mass.)- Today, a broad coalition of consumer, civil rights, labor, and community organizations issued a letter strongly urging members of the U.S. House of...
View ArticleEmployers Are Using Credit Checks Against Otherwise Qualified Workers....
Salon|Sean McElweeAmy TraubOver the last decade, an increasing number of cities and states passed laws limiting the use of credit checks in hiring, promotion, and firing. These laws have been motivated...
View ArticleNew Demos Report Explores the Burden of Medical Debt Among Low- and...
Release Date: August 15, 2016Every day, many U.S. families must make the impossible choice of falling into debt to pay for critical medical care or foregoing necessary treatment. In 2014, 64 million...
View ArticleAmericans Are Drowning In Credit Card Debt, And It's Not Because They're...
AlterNet| Sarah Lazare Amid soaring inequality and stagnant wages, consumers in the United States collectively accumulated a stunning $34.4 billion in credit card debt during the second quarter of 2016...
View ArticleEnough to Make You Sick: The Burden of Medical Debt
August 15, 2016 http://www.demos.org/sites/default/files/publications/Medical%20Debt.pdf Author: Sean McElwee In 2013, total national healthcare spending reached a whopping $2.9 trillion dollars,...
View ArticleOpinion: This is the Big National Debt Problem Congress Won't Talk About
Market Watch| Darrell Delamaide Federal deficit hawks in Congress, driven by ideology and the campaign donations of, for lack of a better term, millionaires and billionaires, held yet another hearing...
View ArticleD.C. Bill Protects Job Applicants' Credit Histories
Society for Human Resource Management| Roy Mauer Washington, D.C., is the latest jurisdiction to consider legislation to prevent employers from conducting credit history screens for most job...
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