The high cost of being poor

The high cost of being poor

Struggling with poverty is hard enough on its own, but many of America’s poor now face an array of costs that wealthier citizens often don’t incur. Take the rise of for-profit probation companies, which more than 1,000 courts across the U.S. use. The...
Square Just Became an Online Lender

Square Just Became an Online Lender

The recent bright star in the portfolio of Square, the San Francisco payments company led by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorseyc, isn’t actually payments. It’s the company’s cash advance service, Square Capital, which provides cash advances to merchants...