A new crop of startups aims to out-compete predatory payday lenders.
Anne Kim
Anne Kim is a Senior Editor at Washington Monthly and the author of Poverty for Profit: How Corporations Get Rich Off America’s Poor (New Press, 2024). Anne is also a Senior Fellow at FutureEd and the author of Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection, winner of the 2020 Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice. Anne is on Bluesky @anne-s-kim.bsky.social.
Posted inEconomy, Magazine, March/April/May 2016
Why Is Marriage Thriving Among (and Only Among) the Affluent?
Experts struggle to explain one of the biggest drivers of inequality.
Posted inGovernment, Politics, Republic 3.0
One Simple Way to Break the Partisan Echo Chamber
Maybe it sounds obvious, but people in Congress aren’t hearing enough from constituents who don’t agree with them.
Posted inEconomy
Sick Leaves
Infected workers account for the majority of foodborne illnesses. Paid sick leave would keep all of us healthier.
Posted inEconomy, Government, January/February 2016, Magazine, The Monopolized Economy
Lettuce Pray
A consolidated food industry brings you salad and chicken nuggets cheaper—and spreads deadly food-borne pathogens farther.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Which States Have the Most Guns?
Nationally, guns outnumber both cars and people.
Posted inEconomy
Are Young Americans Shunning – Or Shut Out From – Homeownership?
The housing market is recovering, but the share of first-time homebuyers is at its lowest level in decades.
Posted inEconomy
Americans’ Precarious Financial Lives
60 percent of Americans have struggled with a financial emergency in the last year, says new research from the Pew Charitable Trusts.
Posted inEconomy, Government, Republic 3.0
4 Ways to Fix the Debt Limit – Forever
How to end the hostage-taking on the federal budget.
Posted inEconomy
Why You Can’t Afford to Retire
And why expanding Social Security isn’t enough to help the middle class.
