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100 years ago

100 years ago

Cashing places to cash their check. if they want to wire money or pay a bill, they dont have a checking account, which means youre incurring fees from other places. >> exactly. so all of us are worried about fees, but especially if youre low income. those fees can really erode the little amount of money that youre taking home. if youre not able to get access to a checking or savings account, youre forced to go to pretty costly outlets like check cashers, payday lenders, even to do basic things. ...

Retrospect i dont think i would have done. it was harder to find easy credit then, we didnt get into credit difficulty but the cliche of having to have the hot sports car. we spent a significant amount of money not only buying it but repairing it because it broke down all the time and rented an apartment sight unseen based on a slick brochure. i can tell you the reality looked nothing like the picture in the pro brochure. >> you mentioned easy credit. thats a concern for people in the military o...

jobless rate is more than twice that. >> oh christine, we talk so much about the unemployment rate and our economy, but youre right, for young combat veterans coming home from war, young men aged 18 to 25, who finished their service to the country, the picture is very grim. they are facing a staggering unemployment rate, 21.9% according to the bureau of labor statistics. its caught the attention of senator patty murray, chairman of the senate veterans affairs committee. have a listen t...

Budget in a couple of years. and since taking office, mr. obama is also pushing financial regulatory reform at a bank house and senate con terees for an agreement reached in the wee hours of the morning. >> were poised to pass the toughest financial reform since the aftermath of ones in the great depression. early this morning, the house and senate reached an agreement on wall street reforms that represents 90% of what i proposed when i took up this fight. >> reporter: some experts disagree. >> ...

The key test and chairman frank said the same thing this morning, the key test is is it strong enough to write and enforce rules that apply to banks but to payday lenders, check cashers, to make sure youre capturing where the abuse was greatest. >> a damning report came out from the inspector general. he said it was misguided in the beginning. they see a potential for a wave of redefault if you will. is that program a mistake or at least in the implementation of it a mistake? >> theres much more...

Legislation should be administered by an independent agency. the regulators are there to worry about the saved and standards of the banks, because of that being their preoccupation, they tend to undervalue consumers. what we did find was the major advocate consumers were at the state level of the attorneys general. thats why the president correctly picked a former state attorney general to head the agency, mr. cordray. what we did was to say heres the deal. well take the powers that now exist an...

Budget in a couple of years. and since taking office, mr. obama is also pushing financial regulatory reform at a bank house and senate con terees for an agreement reached in the wee hours of the morning. >> were poised to pass the toughest financial reform since the aftermath of ones in the great depression. early this morning, the house and senate reached an agreement on wall street reforms that represents 90% of what i proposed when i took up this fight. >> reporter: some experts disagree. >> ...

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