br00t4c , to random
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'Retail is just a credit card company that sells merchandise': Ex-worker reveals quotas she had to make at checkout

https://www.dailydot.com/news/retail-credit-card-quotas/

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The admin will announce rules to block from being used to evaluate ’ fitness for & other types of .
…The WH has repeatedly focused on the issue of , saying it disproportionately harms low-income Americans & communities of color.
“This is going to be an enormous relief for so many people battling when it comes to medical visits,” CPFB dir Rohit Chopra said….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/11/biden-cfpb-medical-debt/

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The rules set to be announced Tues would ban reporting agencies from incorporating when calculating …. The rules would also bar from using to determine , they said.

…~15M Americans have medical on their credit reports, acc/to a study released in April by the Bureau. …People affected by medical debt disproportionately live in the South or in low-income communities….

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from George F. Will:

“…The was instrumental in igniting w/too-cheap for too long, & then was serene about inflation’s supposedly ‘transitory’ nature. In 2012, announced its hubristic plan to achieve its aspiration of exactly 2% inflation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/17/federal-deficit-and-inflation-danger/

Nonilex OP ,
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“‘while allowing #theFed the flexibility to unwisely expand its remit into inherently #political areas such as #credit rationing & #banking #regulation.’ Here is #groupthink: ‘Despite the biggest #monetary errors in 4 decades,’ Katz & Miran write, none of the 9 recent appointees to the Board of Governors was on record as having made accurate predictions about #inflation’s path.

#economy #policy

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