"The big banks have actually figured out a way to make unemployed workers a profit center, one that only grows as things get worse."

Angela Martin, executive director of Economic Fairness Oregon, quoted by Janell Ross in Banks Extract Fees On Unemployment Benefits (via quotingthecrisis)

Just another way modern America kicks the poor in the teeth. The nickel-and-diming from the financial world (major types of insurance especially), and also from local and state governments, is incredible. 

(via moorehn)

"… these days workers with a college degree but no further degrees are less likely to get workplace health coverage than workers with only a high school degree were in 1979."

Krugman, yesterday