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- Source: Time
How Much Basic Checking at a Big Bank Really Costs
There’s been a lot of media coverage lately about Americans switching from big banks to community banks, credit unions and online banks. That may be a good move for some people, but we’ll come right out and say it: Some consumers need a big bank. more
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- States' Fiscal Health
- Source: npr.org
Rhode Island Struggles With Pension Overhaul
Rhode Island has dug its pension system into a big hole: It's $9 billion in the red. The nation's smallest state doesn't even have half of the money it needs to pay future retirees.
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: TIME Magazine
What Ever Happened to Upward Mobility?
America's story, our national mythology, is built on the idea of being an opportunity society. more
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: National Review Online
Mobility Impaired
What’s the most important issue in American politics? In a narrow sense, the sputtering economy and ballooning deficits are likely to dominate the 2012 election season.
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- Source: New York Times
Banks Quietly Ramping Up Costs to Consumers
Even as Bank of America and other major lenders back away from charging customers to use their debit cards, many banks have been quietly imposing other new fees. more
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: Washington Post
The Downward Path of Upward Mobility
This week’s Washington Post ABC News poll reveals what we have all sensed, that most Americans are increasingly concerned about the growing gap between rich and poor in this country.
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- Source: TIME Moneyland
Would You Bank at Walmart?
Americans fed up with big bank fees are closing their accounts and marching over to … Walmart? more
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: NPR
American Dream For Middle Class: Just A Dream?
A recent report by the research project found that one in three Americans raised in the middle class fall out of it as adults. Host Audie Cornish speaks with Erin Currier of the Pew Charitable Trusts' Economic Mobility Project about pressures on the American middle class.
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- Source: Commonwealth Magazine
A Way Out of Gridlock
With unemployment too high, economic growth too low, and the gap between the rich and poor widening, the American Dream is hurting. Adding to the gloom is the polarization in Washington, where even a simple task like raising the country’s debt ceiling nearly led to economic cataclysm this summer. more
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: Washington Post
Economic Inequality is the Wrong Issue
It is the primary liberal argument that America’s primary economic problem is growing income inequality. For three decades, in this view, the rich have grown richer while middle-class incomes have stagnated.
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- Source: reuters.com
Analysis: Economy's Shifts Erode States' Tax Bases
State governments across the United States are just a few months into their fiscal years and already many fear that tax revenues are running short of forecasts. This is getting to be an annual ritual. Officials in New York, California, Florida and Washington this year have all expressed concerns about the outlook.
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- Source: ABC Action News Channel 6
TD Banks Hikes Fees on Checking Account Services
TD Bank is hiking a variety of service fees on its checking accounts.
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- Source: ABC News
What's the Most Expensive State to Bank? State Bank Fees: Interactive Map
West Virginia has the highest median monthly bank fees in the country at $12, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts.
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: Washington Post
Paul Ryan’s Frown Should Make Democrats Smile
We may be reaching an inflection point, the moment when the terms of the political argument change decisively.
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- Economic Mobility Project
- Source: Los Angeles Times
Children of Immigrants Hit an Economic Ceiling
A Salvadoran flag wrapped around his neck to block out the sun, Geremias Romero hunches low to the ground alongside the other laborers, following the tractor along rows of cantaloupes.
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