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- Public Safety Performance Project
- Source: The Detroit News
Editorial: Cut Prison Terms to Save Funds
Michigan could save millions of dollars in its nearly $2 billion Corrections budget by shaving the prison terms of inmates. more
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- States' Fiscal Health
- Source: PBS
Pension Shortfalls Force States to Consider Cutting Benefits
Pew Center on the States Research Director Kil Huh discusses the challenges states face in funding retirement benefit promises and the reforms states have enacted to address these challenges.
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- Public Safety Performance Project
Editorial: Sensible Sentences for Nonviolent Offenders
The enormous strain prison costs put on state budgets has led some conservatives and liberals to do something sensible together. more
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- Safe Checking in the Electronic Age
Report: Bank Fees Put Consumers at Financial Risk
Consumer alert for anyone with a checking account. According to a new report many banks are charging Americans excessive and confusing fees. Senior investigative correspondent Lisa Myers has details on this story
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- Safe Checking in the Electronic Age
- Source: NBC Nightly News
Finding Hidden Banking Fees
Now to a story about your money and maybe your bank. Some of the new regulations on banks have been eating into their profits so they're finding new ways to make money from the people who put their money in the bank.
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- Safe Checking in the Electronic Age
- Source: New York Times
More Debit Card Follies and Abuses
The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau needs to bring transparency to debit card banking. The Federal Reserve made a good regulatory start in 2010, when it required banks to get account holders’ consent before enrolling them in overdraft “protection” programs that could cost them $35 each time they used a debit card and overdrew their account—the cards provide no warning of insufficient funds. more
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- Safe Checking in the Electronic Age
- Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
Bank Overdraft Fees Creeping Up Again, Consumer Monitors Say
Even as the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau weighs whether to address bank overdraft fees that cost U.S. consumers nearly $30 billion last year, some of those fees continue to inch up, according to new reports by the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Consumer Federation of America.
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- Safe Checking in the Electronic Age
- Source: Los Angeles Times
Checking Accounts Still Too Confusing and Expensive, Study Finds
Despite some recent improvements by the nation's largest banks, checking accounts are still too confusing for consumers and overdraft fees are too high, according to new findings by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
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- Safe Checking in the Electronic Age
- Source: CNNMoney
Checking Accounts: High Fees, 69-page Disclosures
Consumers are still getting hit with unexpected fees and aren't receiving clear information about the costs involved with their accounts, according to a report by the Pew Safe Checking in the Electronic Age Project. The study examined the information on 274 checking accounts offered by the nation's 12 biggest banks and credit unions.
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- Public Safety Performance Project
- Source: MSNBC
Video: More Time Behind Bars
Public Safety Performance Project Director Adam Gelb is interviewed on MSNBC's "The Dylan Ratigan Show"
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