war on poor NetSpend bleeds kid's birthday cash card with predatory monthly "inactivity fees" Mark Frauenfelder
Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow
AI Second wave Algorithmic Accountability: from "What should algorithms do?" to "Should we use an algorithm?" Cory Doctorow
finance Rep Katie Porter: an Elizabeth Warren protege and single mom who destroys bumbling, mediocre rich guys in Congressional hearings Cory Doctorow
corruption Payday lenders switched their trade show to a Trump hotel and sent Trump at least a million bucks, then he gave them carte blanche to make billions preying on poor people Cory Doctorow
Business For the first time since the 70s, New York State is set to enshrine sweeping tenants' protections Cory Doctorow
Business Now that Uber and Lyft are public, their inevitable financial collapse is much clearer Cory Doctorow
corruption How the "prosperity gospel" convinces poor people to give everything to grifty millionaire preachers Cory Doctorow
finance Sanders and AOC team up for an anti-loansharking bill that will replace payday lenders with post-office banking Cory Doctorow
transparency How the payday loan industry laundered policy by paying academics to write papers that supported its positions Cory Doctorow
videos A public bank for LA: instead of sending hundreds of millions to predatory finance, Angelenos' taxes can fund community development Cory Doctorow
Business With the App Store monopoly case, the Supreme Court could reverse decades of frustrated antitrust enforcement Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Seasteading meets the shock doctrine in Puerto Rico, where ethnic cleansing precedes Going Galt Cory Doctorow
