Payroll Cards and Fees are Workers’ Rip-off and in Some Cases Illegal

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

New Orleans  Some employers, including McDonalds, Walgreens, and others are forcing workers to be paid through bankcards.   They “load” the cards with the amount owed the workers, and according to recent reports are even making money via kickbacks or rebates from the card issuer, oftenbig banks like Citi and others.   These same banks make out …

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Nonprofit Deductions, DREAMing, Facts, Live-In Wages, Tax Justice, and Twitter Access

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care Immigration Reform Organizing

Quito     With 80% of the United States households earning, and therefore paying, taxes on incomes of less than $100,000 per year, that means that the vast majority of us are filing “short forms” on IRS 1040A.  Independent studies regularly establish that the most generous Americans, when measured as a percentage of income, are those making …

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