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New York City Just Outlawed Running Credit Checks on Job Applicants

The rationale behind the ban is simple: it’s unfair and useless to use a person’s credit history, which is often inaccurate or misleading, when assessing their job qualifications.
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Michelle Chen

Liberals to Hillary: Make Public College Debt-Free

Several top congressional Democrats will embrace on Tuesday a loose plan to make public colleges a debt-free proposition—and will receive an immediate boost from progressive activists who are hoping to shape the 2016 Democratic agenda.
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George Zornick

City Council Passes Bill to Ban Credit Checks for Most Job Seekers

[...] "You are in a Catch-22," said Emmanuel Caicedo, a senior campaign strategist with Demos, one member of a coalition of 79 labor and civil rights organizations that formed the NYC Coalition to Stop Credit Checks in Employment. "You can't pay your bills and so your credit is bad. And then you can
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Jeff Mays

NYC Passes Ban on Credit Checks for Most Job Applicants

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Jed Oelbaum

The Student Debt Strike Movement Just Scored a Victory

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Zeeshan Aleem

Unions Still Matter

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Sean McElwee

Debt Sentences

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Vijay Prashad

Has Obamacare Turned Voters Against Sharing the Wealth?

With the advent of the Affordable Care Act, the share of Americans convinced that health care is a right shrank from a majority to a minority.
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Thomas B. Edsall

Gender Pay Disparity is Particularly Stark for Women Retail Workers and Women of Color

Gender Pay Disparity is Particularly Stark for Women Retail Workers and Women of Color
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Finance Is to Blame for Rise in Inequality

Middle class income stagnation, and the inequality that it causes, is the principal economic challenge for the nation — and finance is to blame for it.
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Wallace C. Turbeville