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Monthly Archives: March 2010

Am I Poor?

Monday, March 22, 2010

In James D. Scurlock’s eerily prescient 2007 book, “Maxed Out,” the author observed: It is time to create a new metric in order to judge how many middle-class Americans are joining the ranks of the poor. … If we are to honestly measure how the middle class is holding up, we must add increasingly costly [...]

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Credit Card Disclosures: Are Online Statements Exempt?

Sunday, March 21, 2010

The recently-passed Credit CARD Act of 2009 was intended to make drastic improvements to the transparency and clarity of credit card statements.  The idea was to decrease the amount of work the average consumer needed to do to understand what they are paying, and why.  However, as I went online to try and take advantage [...]

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NYT On the Right to Counsel

Sunday, March 21, 2010

An article in Friday’s New York Times attempts to humanize the widespread problem of inadequate public defender programs in our nation’s criminal courts.  Author William Glaberson took a closer look at the characters behind a recent story, about a class action suit in New York that challenges the alleged problems with that state’s defenders. The [...]

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