Recent financial disclosures show overdraft to be lucrative for commercial banks, and a burden on their most vulnerable customers.
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Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Government’s Unused Power to Regulate Nursing Homes
Let’s not give more taxpayer money to corrupt nursing home operators until we replace them with caregivers who place care over profits.
Posted inFirst 100
First 100: Where’s the Michigan Vaccine Surge?
Plus, more executive action options to lower drug prices.
Posted inPolitics
Nebraska’s Rural Rebellion
A native Nebraskan deconstructs the Cornhusker State’s conservative politics and culture and how Democrats fell so far so fast.
Posted inFirst 100
First 100: The Case for Vaccine Passports
We’re in a health emergency and they can stop the spread.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
The Digital Divide Pushed My Dad’s Life to the Brink
As public benefits migrate online, senior citizens are being left behind.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
North Carolina Botched an Emergency Re-entry Program for Returning Citizens
A re-entry program that quarantined people with possible COVID-19 exposure endangered their lives and reproduced the prison conditions they left behind.
Posted inWorking in America
How OSHA Fails to Protect Migrant Food Processing Workers
North Carolina is an extreme case—but far from the only one.
Posted inTAP
Needed: More Rescue Funds for the Poorest Communities
Today on TAP: The inequity built into the American Rescue Plan
Posted inTransportation
⏩ Public Transportation in Crisis: A Live Panel Event
Deputy editor Gabrielle Gurley moderates a panel event featuring top public-transportation leaders from across the country.
