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...make these transactions. "They are making this a priority and making it more visible to the consumer. This is something they really care about," says Jennifer Tescher, director of the Center for Financial Services Innovation, a nonprofit that does research and advocacy work for the unbanked. "It doesn't matter whether or not they have a bank charter." And as countless small retailers can tell you, when Wal-Mart decides it cares about a business, it usually finds a way to dominate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wal-Mart's Unbanking Business | 6/21/2007 | See Source »

...that does not take aim at the gun lobby or the Republican party, but America's healthcare system, Moore believes he's chosen less hostile territory. It's a topic that "both conservatives and liberals" can identify with, Moore said. But he says that he will be denounced no matter what he does: "Those few remaining voices in support of the war and in support of Mr. bush would criticize me if I opened up a factory making American flags. If I gave away 1,000 American flags every day they would find some way to go after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michael Moore: "I'm Mainstream Now" | 6/20/2007 | See Source »

Offering a path from illegal to legal immigrant status is the issue is that defeated President George W. Bush's immigration reform plan in last year's G.O.P.-controlled Congress. House Republicans, and moderate Democrats, balked at granting any kind of "amnesty" - no matter how many tests the bill creates to make it "earned" citizenship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reluctant Dems on Immigration Reform | 6/19/2007 | See Source »

...current nuclear deal. All the while, the skeptics believe, he will probably continue a separate secret program to enrich uranium to make the bomb. At minimum, the skeptics say, Kim will buy enough time to see who succeeds Bush, whom he doesn't trust (no matter what the Chinese President says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Has Kim Jong Il Come to His Senses? | 6/19/2007 | See Source »

Credit Dan Quayle for enduring the ridicule that opened the mainstream debate over whether fathers matter in families. In the year since his famous Murphy Brown speech, social scientists have produced mounting evidence that, at the very least, he had a point. Apart from the personal politics of parenting, there are larger social costs to reckon in a society that dismisses fathers as luxuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Archive: Where Are All the Fathers? | 6/16/2007 | See Source »

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