Wednesday, February 24, 2021
Since well before inauguration day, the Biden administration indicated that it would immediately take action to undo the deregulation agenda of the previous administration. As part of this effort, President Biden is expected to nominate a new commissioner and chair to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in the coming months. This nomination and subsequent confirmation by a Democrat-controlled Senate will bring the CPSC’s leadership back to its full five-person strength. It will also allow the CPSC to usher in a new era of increased regulation and more aggressive enforcement. Consumer product manufacturers, distributors, and retailers should brace themselves for enhanced scrutiny and a potential departure from the status quo of the past several years.
Consumer Product Companies Beware! CPSC Expected to Ramp up Enforcement of Product Safety Regulations | Foley & Lardner LLP jdsupra.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jdsupra.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
COVID-19 has made broken college textbook market worse for students, national survey says
Sixty-five percent of college students polled said they ve skipped buying textbooks due to price, and that economic hardship during the pandemic played a role. Author: Chris Venzon (WFMY News2) Published: 2:19 PM EST February 24, 2021 Updated: 5:26 PM EST February 24, 2021
GREENSBORO, N.C. The economic difficulties brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic have made it even more difficult for students to afford textbooks, a national survey said. While the price of textbooks has not increased, 65% of college students polled by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group did not purchase a textbook for a class despite believing it would negatively impact their grades.
ExtremeTech
John Deere Fails to Uphold Right to Repair Agreement Signed in 2018 By Joel Hruska on February 23, 2021 at 10:02 am
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use.
In September 2018, the Equipment Dealers Association signed an agreement with John Deere in which the company would begin voluntarily making repair tools, software guides, and diagnostic equipment available for ordinary farmers to purpose beginning January 1, 2021. We’re now well over two months into 2021 and, as a new report details, John Deere isn’t keeping up its end of the bargain.
The purpose of the agreement between John Deere and the EDA was to deal with the increasingly onerous software lockouts John Deere baked into its tractors. Farmers have been increasingly forced to visit a John Deere dealership for even trivial repairs because once-simple replacements now require dealer-authorized equipment to authenticate the hardware. The deal with t
Credit report errors are surging due to COVID — was your credit score hit? yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.