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...regulation ends there. Recurring payments, like utility bills, or anything you pay for with a check will still be subject to overdraft fees. Think about all the other beneficial changes that could have been made. Overdraft protection is extremely helpful for some people (myself not included), but the new rules leave you to choose between getting ripped off and not having any protection at all. Suppose, as one bill floating around Washington proposes, that, rather than a $35 flat fee, overdraft charges were proportional to the size of the overdraft—or that you were permitted a limited number...
...conference committee with the House, where the two chambers will hash out some significant differences over abortion (the House bill has far more restrictive language than the version now before the Senate), the public option (the House version is almost certain to be more robust) and how to pay for the health overhaul (with the House favoring higher taxes on the wealthy and the current Senate version relying on new levies on high-priced insurance plans...
...good officers and encourage police to supplement their wages through graft and criminal rackets. Dymovsky, the Internet whistleblower, complained that his monthly wage as a policeman in the Black Sea port of Novorossiisk was only 14,000 rubles ($487) and that he worked extensive overtime for no additional pay. "What motivation is there to serve honestly?" said Kirill Kabanov, head of the National Anticorruption Committee, a nongovernmental organization. Many prospective recruits eschew police forces in favor of security agencies such as the Federal Security Service, or FSB, the main successor agency to the KGB, which pays about...
...Russia party and a former head of the anti-organized crime units in the Soviet Interior Ministry. He says the roots of the current difficulties can be traced to the collapse of the Soviet Union, when police officers went into the private sector en masse, fed up with low pay, corruption and the brazen violence sweeping the country. He estimates that 100,000 officers left the profession each year from 1991 to 2004 nationwide. "There are very few people anymore who work as police officers because it is their calling," Gurov says...
...Among the detailed guidelines in the manual and already in use by forces on the ground is a recommendation to pay local fighters not to join the enemy. "The best weapons to counter insurgents don't shoot," said Newton. "In other words, use bags of gold in the short term to change the security dynamics." (See the war in Afghanistan up close...