Media Coverage
Media Coverage
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| Apr 20, 2009 |
''Practices of Credit Card Companies Under Scrutiny'' "Executives of the nation's largest credit-card companies will meet with President Barack Obama at the White House on Thursday to discuss growing concerns about questionable practices in the industry." Source: The Miami Herald |
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| Mar 31, 2009 |
''Congress Considers Limits on Credit Card Companies'' "Democrats in Congress are taking a swipe at credit card issuers and their increasingly creative reasons for raising fees on strapped consumers, sparking a well-financed duel over how to crack down on alleged abuses." Source: Philadelphia Inquirer |
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| Mar 31, 2009 |
''The Moment for Credit Card Reform'' "We all know what an uphill battle reforming abusive credit card practices has been. As a twenty-five year veteran of that fight, I know it as well as anyone. But this morning, the Senate took a big step up that mountain." Source: Huffington Post |
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| Mar 31, 2009 |
''New Study Cites 'unfair and deceptive' Credit Card Practices'' "A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts details the extent of some of the “unfair and deceptive practices” by credit card companies." Source: The Washington Post |
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| Mar 25, 2009 |
''New program encourages low-income L.A. residents to open bank accounts'' "Nearly 300,000 Los Angeles households do not have a bank account, more than in any other U.S. city, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa acknowledged at a news briefing Tuesday." Source: Los Angeles Times |
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| Jan 9, 2009 |
''Practical Benefits Drawing Bankers to Unbanked Effort'' "When San Francisco was establishing a program three years ago to move unbanked consumers into the financial mainstream, banks and credit unions signed on because "it was a good political opportunity to generate good will," said Matt Fellowes." Source: American Banker |
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| Dec 19, 2008 |
Report Faults U.S. Strategy for Nanotoxicology Research The U.S. government lacks an effective plan for ensuring the safety of nanotechnology, a new report by the National Research Council (NRC) concludes. The report, released last week, finds that the current plan for coordinating federal research on environmental, health, and safety (EHS) risks of nanotechnology amounts to an ad hoc collection of research priorities from the 25 federal agencies that make up the U.S. National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), which coordinates federal nanotech programs. What's needed, it argues, are an overall vision and a plan for how to get there and to come up with the money to do so. Source: Science Magazine |
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| Dec 10, 2008 |
"The government needs a more comprehensive plan for studying the risks of nanotechnology, the National Research Council said Wednesday. While the committee that prepared the report did not evaluate the safety of nanomaterials, it was critical Source: |
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| Dec 1, 2008 |
If you think of life on Earth as a magnificent incarnation of natural technology, then life has the classic double-edged character of all powerful technologies. This technology has produced a wondrous diversity of beings displaying a gorgeous marriage of form and function on hierarchical levels that span the range from cells to rain forests and beyond. Yet it also has created pathogens that indifferently kill millions of people each year, ecological disasters that wipe out species, and intelligent beings that deliberately perpetrate catastrophes on similar scales.
Source: Chemical & Engineering News |
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| Nov 7, 2008 |
"Twenty or thirty years ago, traditional financial institutions fled neighborhoods like Watts, and guys like Tom Nix, co-founder of the biggest chain of check cashers and payday lenders in Southern California, rushed into the vacuum." Source: The New York Times Magazine |
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| Oct 15, 2008 |
''Getting Workers on Track to Invest Early and Often'' As traditional pensions fade from the retirement landscape and workers are forced to take a lot more responsibility for their own financial futures, employers are rolling out a variety of features to help workers prepare for retirement. Source: The Washington Post |
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| Sep 24, 2008 |
''Senate OKs Foster Care Reform; Bush to Get Bill'' Michigan's foster children may get three more years of help from the federal government -- to age 21 -- and aunts, uncles, grandparents and other relative caregivers may be in line, too, for some financial aid. Source: Detroit Free Press |
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| Sep 14, 2008 |
Scientists are urging U.S. regulators to regularly screen the health and environmental effects of tiny engineered particles used in more than 800 consumer products, and step up oversight of the nanotechnology industry.
Source: Delaware Online |
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| Sep 8, 2008 |
There's no shortage of retirement-savings services for the affluent. But for those who fall in the middle of the wage scale or lower, it's a different story. Source: The Wall Street Journal |
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| Sep 1, 2008 |
"The alternative financial services (AFS) industry has attracted a lot of attention lately. Virtually nonexistent in this country 20 years ago, it has grown into a $100 billion business." Source: fedgazette, The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |
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| Aug 5, 2008 |
''And now, a fee to pay your bill'' "As companies strive to keep listed prices low and earnings high, fees have become a quick and handy back-end way to raise revenue." Source: MSN Money |
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| Aug 5, 2008 |
''Toxic Plastic Toys Could Go the Way of the Dinosaurs'' "Children's advocates say they hope a sweeping consumer protection law passed by Congress last week will begin a broad national effort to shield youngsters from dangerous chemicals." Source: USA Today |
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| Aug 4, 2008 |
''Will bacteria develop resistance?'' Could the use of nanosilver products create another problem for medicine -- strains of bacteria that are resistant to silver? Although silver is not used to treat disease, it is used in hospital settings to speed wound-healing, prevent eye infections in newborns and as a coating for catheters, where it can cut infection rates. Source: Los Angeles Times |
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| Aug 1, 2008 |
''Not Toying Around: Congress OKs Bill to Ban Chemicals in Some Products'' "Congress has passed sweeping legislation to improve the safety of toys and other consumer products." Source: USA Today |
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| Aug 1, 2008 |
''Congress Takes on Chemicals'' Congress is venturing into new regulatory territory with a recent ban on several varieties of the plasticizing chemicals known as pthalates. Usually government agencies regulate products on the market, but environmental health advocates say this latest ban shows Congress is picking up the slack on chemical regulation. Host Bruce Gellerman talks with Andy Igrejas of the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Environmental Health Campaign. Source: living on earth |
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| Jul 18, 2008 |
''States Battle Mortgage Foreclosure Threat'' "Frustrated by the slow pace of federal relief, states around the country are pouring hundreds of millions of dollars into their own programs to stem the rising tide of home foreclosures." Source: USA Today |
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| Jul 11, 2008 |
''Foreclosure-Related Filings Up in Nassau, Suffolk'' Foreclosure-related filings for June jumped 72 percent in Suffolk and 2 percent in Nassau from the previous month, according to RealtyTrac, an online foreclosure marketplace. Source: Newsday |
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| May 21, 2008 |
''In Study, Researchers Find Nanotubes May Pose Health Risks Similar to Asbestos'' Nanotubes, one of the wonder materials of the new age of nanotechnology, may carry a health risk similar to that of asbestos, a wonder material of an earlier age that turned into a scourge after decades of use when its fibers were found to cause lung disease, researchers said Tuesday. Source: The New York Times |
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| May 7, 2008 |
''Pew to Promote Fair Bank Account Standards for 'Underserved''' "The Pew Charitable Trusts have announced a new project aimed at 'helping America's workers underserved by mainstream financial institutions secure access to safe, affordable, fair, and empowering bank accounts." Source: Payments News |
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| Apr 29, 2008 |
''S.C. Slow to Help in Home Crunch'' State lawmakers are pushing a measure that would protect future homebuyers from risky and high-cost mortgages. But their proposal doesn't address the thousands of South Carolina homeowners who are struggling to make monthly payments right now. Source: The Post and Courier |
