CFPB to reconsider rule on payday loans
From CNN Money Edition: The watchdog agency said in a statement Tuesday that it intends to “reconsider” a regulation, issued in October, that would have required payday lenders to vet…
From CNN Money Edition: The watchdog agency said in a statement Tuesday that it intends to “reconsider” a regulation, issued in October, that would have required payday lenders to vet…
In honor of MLK Day, we post a short educational video here with excerpts from Martin Luther King, Jr. and James Baldwin that draw the connection between racial injustice and…
From National Public Radio: Poor residents in Kentucky will have to work or do volunteer work if they want to keep their Medicaid benefits after the Trump administration on Friday…
From the New York Times: A panel of federal judges struck down North Carolina’s congressional map on Tuesday, condemning it as unconstitutional because Republicans had drawn the map seeking a…
From the New York Times Business Section: There is no shortage of books claiming to reveal the secret truth behind successful careers. Then there are all the podcasts, TED talks,…
Here is an object lesson in why workers at the LA Times newsroom voted to unionize. Below is the “story” that appears in the LA Times about this historically significant…
From today’s National Public Radio: Starting this week, companies in Iceland are required to demonstrate that they pay male and female employees fairly — without gender discrimination. Failing to do…
From Harvard Business Review: When I worked as a management consultant, I had a client that I thought of as difficult. Let’s call her Marguerite. She and I didn’t see…
From today’s New York Times: The United States spends almost twice as much on health care, as a percentage of its economy, as other advanced industrialized countries — totaling $3.3…