They Loan You Money. Then They Get A Warrant For Your Arrest Zachery Limas and his wife, Amber Greer, both 24, waited in the lobby area for their audience with Stauffer. Limas had borrowed $700 from Loans for Less last summer for a down payment on a 2012 Hyundai Santa Fe, an SUV with enough […]

They Loan You Money. Then They Get A Warrant For Your Arrest, If You Don’t Pay Cecila Avila was finishing a work shift at a Walmart. David Gordon was at church. Darrell Reese was watching his granddaughter at home. Jessica Albritton had pulled into the parking lot at her job, where she packed and shipped […]

White House to Tighten Work Requirements for Food-Stamp Aid The Trump administration is set to tighten work requirements for recipients of federal food aid, potentially rendering hundreds of thousands of people ineligible for the program by mid-2020. The administration said Wednesday that it had completed a new rule curbing states’ ability to shield adults without […]

Spoiled food, drug deals gone wrong: SNAP recipients want change at corner stores EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. – The parking lot was dark when Marie Franklin and her husband, Sam, last stopped at a corner store near their home. The couple didn’t want much from the market that night. But they still strategized before Sam, […]

The busiest most structurally deficient bridge in every US state President Trump’s plan for an overhauled American infrastructure still has yet to be passed. Some of the most highly traveled bridges in the country are potentially endangering the lives of commuters every day. Here is the most dangerous, highly traveled bridge in every US state. […]

Here’s how Amazon employees get healthcare through a new app — a glimpse of the future of medicine Amazon has now launched its Amazon Care app into major app stores as part of its strategy to help its Seattle-area employees get more convenient and affordable health care. Amazon Care, which CNBC uncovered this fall, has […]

A surgeon talks about why our healthcare is broken and how to fix it You know the old expression, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” I sometimes feel that way about the high cost of health care. But Dr. Marty Makary, author of the new book about America’s healthcare system […]

‘Inflation Inequality’ In an era of wild inequality, sputtering wages, and rising rents and health-care costs, the American working class has had one consistent financial respite: “stuff,” broadly defined, is cheap. Sure, workers might not be able to afford a decent apartment, a college education, or sufficient elder care for an infirm relative, or to […]

Welcome to “Cancer Alley,” Where Toxic Air Is About to Get Worse Comparison to the Nation: By the 1960s, the American public was growing apprehensive about the dense smog created by petrochemical production. As a national environmental movement took root, Congress passed the Clean Air Act. A 1990 amendment required major polluters to reduce their […]

Welcome to “Cancer Alley,” Where Toxic Air Is About to Get Worse ST. GABRIEL, La. — Over a half-century, Hazel Schexnayder saw this riverside hamlet transformed from a collection of old plantations, tin-roofed shacks and verdant cornfields into an industrial juggernaut. By the early 1990s, she’d had enough of the towering chemical plants and their […]