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...Commerce, Texas. He had spent three years working toward a degree in criminal justice, and now hopes to find a way to complete it without having to sit in classrooms full of people, a prospect he can't bear. He walked out on a job answering phones for a credit-card company last month and spends his days on his father's farm in Kemp, Texas, working...
SHOULD YOU NEED ANOTHER REASON TO AVOID bankruptcy--a humbling process often triggered by illness, divorce or job loss--look no further than a bill about to be passed by Congress that will make it harder for middle-class families to erase medical, credit-card and other debt...
Today 70% of individuals who file for bankruptcy protection do so under Chapter 7 of the bankruptcy code, which requires that most of your assets be confiscated but wipes out most debt, such as medical and credit-card bills (though you're still obligated to pay any child support, taxes and student loans). Under the new law, less debt can be erased under Chapter 7. And if your income is above the median in your state--and you can afford to pay at least $6,000 over five years--you will be forced into Chapter 13, which requires a repayment...
...cost of $5 billion. Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, pledged to schedule hearings on the topic. And that was before Bank of America learned, as first reported by TIME.com that it had lost several data-backup tapes that held information on at least 1.2 million federal employee credit-card accounts--possibly including some of Senators...
...poll shows that credit-card company Visa is barely identified as American. Even among those consumers who said they were inclined to boycott U.S. brands, only a few included Visa on the list. (American Express, by contrast, was strongly identified as being American.) Still, even companies that believe and practice a localized strategy aren't immune to political backlash. McDonald's, for example, adapts its menus to local taste; its restaurants serve Kiwi burgers in New Zealand and wine in France. But that hasn't prevented the fast-food chain from being a favorite target of French protesters. And General...