Another Reason We Need The USPS Board Nominees Confirmed NOW

I hope everyone contacted Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.) to urge him to get President Handsome Joe Biden’s three still-waiting-to-be-confirmed nominees …

Another Reason We Need The USPS Board Nominees Confirmed NOW

12 Ways to Maintain the Christmas Spirit AFTER Christmas (5) | K E Garland

In 2017, I spent the year maintaining the Christmas spirit in different ways each week. I thought I would re-post this journey because we’re living in some weird-ass times, and I’m beginning to believe that, now more than ever, we will need to depend on ourselves and whatever sense of community we have left.


Because I’m human, by June 2017, I’d forgotten to formally give in some systematic way. However, I’m happy to report that I was still service-minded…it was just more natural.

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My goddaughter and I traveled to Nashville the second week in June. There, we hung out on Broad Street with a friend of mine who we’d visited. I’d noticed the homeless population almost immediately and the busyness of the area allowed me to take some candid shots. Well, one man wouldn’t let me take a photo, unless I gave him some money. How much was up to me. I paid $2.00 for a shot of his sign. This, however, isn’t it lol I must’ve deleted it. But this is representative of the types of signs we saw that day…

Source: 12 Ways to Maintain the Christmas Spirit AFTER Christmas (5) | K E Garland

Opinion: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau serves the public well – Los Angeles Times

Tech moguls might hold a grudge when justice is done, but the 118,101 LendUp customers who received more than $40 million of their money back thanks to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau surely feel differently. Those people are not alone.

Since its creation, the agency has recovered more than $21 billion in restitution and canceled debts for tens of millions of consumers. Recently, in just one week, the bureau returned $1.8 billion to 4 million consumers who had been scammed by a group of credit repair companies scattered across the western United States. Bureau-created protections barring unfair fees, charges and terms for financial products have saved billions more.

 

Source: Opinion: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau serves the public well – Los Angeles Times