Ongoing Battle Against Predatory Payday Lenders

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Halifax   Payday lenders throughout out North America are both under attack and organizing fiercely to resist effective regulation. In the United States, Republican lawmakers nationally and in some states are being mobilized by payday lenders to pushback against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) efforts to rollout regulations establishing minimum standards for payday lending. What …

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Does Hillary Clinton Have a Real Plan for Income Inequality?

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Halifax    It’s time to start getting serious now that reality is sinking in and giving us a better look at a possible political future. There’s woe and rage about wage stagnation, the few future prospects of family-supporting jobs, deindustrialization, and millions stuck in grinding poverty while others have been allowed stupendous riches, and while fingers …

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Candidates and Consultants: Separating Fools from their Money

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New Orleans    Donald Trump makes one point that is both compelling and increasingly incontestable, arguing essentially that political campaign consultants, media and mail pros, and even pollsters are rip-off artists. Typically Trump, it’s too broad based a generalization, but it is one that has not a kernel, but a ton of truth attached. An article …

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