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Monica Lewinsky: Note to self: drop off dry-cleaning...
...been a revolution in American rights and in our ideas of citizenship. To judge from almost all polls and referendums over the past few decades, it is reliably unpopular. Judges prop it up. Since the election of the first black President, it has been a shoe waiting to drop. The rationale it rests on - that minorities are cut off from fair access to positions of influence in society - has been undermined, to put it mildly. Elevating a hard-line defender of affirmative action is thus a provocation in a way that it would not have been in years past...
...they did in March-a sign that the pullback on debt-fueled spending continued into the spring. New data from the Federal Reserve shows that outstanding consumer credit which includes credit cards, auto loans and tuition financing, but not mortgages, fell by $15.7 billion to $2.52 trillion, an annualized drop of 7.4%. That marks the second-largest dollar drop on record, following March's $16.6 billion decline...
...higher than a year before, and credit-card charge-offs which happen when a lender gives up on ever being repaid did continue to rise. Fitch analysts have anticipated that eventually one out of every ten dollars in credit-card debt will be written off this way, although the drop in delinquencies may indicate that people are getting a handle on their finances more quickly than expected. (Read "Financial Woes Spread to Smaller Banks...
...financial-services workers have been hit far harder in this recession than in past ones. In the 2001 downturn, employment in the banking and insurance sectors actually rose 1%. Finance-industry jobs did fall in the early-'90s recession, but just 0.3%, far less than the 1.3% drop in total employment in the same period...