by Eileen Appelbaum, Rosemary Batt | Apr 6, 2020 | Blog, COVID-19, Featured, Financial Reform, Health
Doctor Ming Lin is the first emergency room doctor to be fired for going public with his concerns about poor hospital emergency room safety practices and shortages of medical supplies and protective gear for health workers. He won’t be the last. Like many hospitals in...
by Paige Marta Skiba, Caroline Malone | Dec 11, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Financial Reform
Installment loans seem like a kinder, gentler version of their “predatory” cousin, the payday loan. But for consumers, they may be even more harmful. Use of the installment loan, in which a consumer borrows a lump sum and pays back the principal and interest in a...
by Sam Pizzigati | Jun 18, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Featured, Financial Reform, Inequality
We have a great deal of statistical data, in America today, about the economic circumstances of Americans who live in poverty. We know far less, by contrast, about Americans who live amid great wealth. And much of what we do know, suggests a revealing new study, turns...
by Jessicah Pierre | May 6, 2019 | Blog, Economy, Featured, Financial Reform, Inequality
The gap between America’s ultra-wealthy and the rest of us is growing dramatically as wealth continues to concentrate at the top at the expense of the rest of us. One major symptom of this economic rift is the racial wealth divide, which is greater today than it was...
by Isaiah J. Poole | May 22, 2017 | Financial Reform
Mark Feuer, the Los Angeles City Attorney who helped hold Wells Fargo accountable for creating millions of fake accounts without customers' knowledge, now warns against efforts by the Trump administration and Congress to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection...
by Sarah Anderson | Nov 30, 2016 | Financial Reform
A couple of years ago, two South Dakota men on opposite ends of the political spectrum got into a nasty fight over marriage equality. But after one offered the other an olive branch, they wound up forming a bipartisan alliance that won big this election year. Their...
