{"id":8047,"date":"2009-05-21T09:41:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T16:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=8047"},"modified":"2009-05-21T09:41:14","modified_gmt":"2009-05-21T16:41:14","slug":"new-credit-card-regulation-a-step-in-the-right-direction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/05\/21\/new-credit-card-regulation-a-step-in-the-right-direction\/","title":{"rendered":"New Credit Card Regulation A Step in the Right Direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest052109\/2009_05_21_schechter.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest052109\/2009_05_21_uprising.MP3\">  the entire program<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/common\/imagedata\/0,,6325259,00.jpg\" alt=\"credit card regulation\" \/>Congress just passed a bill on credit card regulation that heads to the President&#8217;s desk for a signature. The new regulations will protect credit card holders from surprise charges, and restrict over-the-limit fees and charges to pay their bill by phone. There are also restrictions for people under 21 to get a card, as well as requirements to write card holder agreements in plain English rather than obscure &#8220;legalese.&#8221; While the regulation is being criticized for not being strong enough, it is seen as a huge step in the interest of consumers. <\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Danny Schechter, author of &#8220;Plunder: Investigating our Economic Calamity and the Subprime Scandal, editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.MediaChannel.org\">MediaChannel.org<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>| the entire program Congress just passed a bill on credit card regulation that heads to the President&#8217;s desk for a signature. The new regulations will protect credit card holders from surprise charges, and restrict over-the-limit fees and charges to pay their bill by phone. There are also restrictions for people under 21 to get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}