Last month, the Supreme Court effectively expanded employers’ responsibility for the performance of the funds in their 401(k) plans, ruling that employers must regularly monitor the investment options in their plan and remove funds with high fees or poor returns. The ruling’s goal, protecting retirement savers from high fees and poor performance, is both admirable and desperately needed.
More than 1.9 million Black Americans work in retail, accounting for 11 percent of the industry’s total workforce. Despite being the second-largest source of employment for Black workers, new data from the NAACP and equality advocacy organization, Demos, finds that the industry is rife with racial inequality and poor earning potential.
Simply put, debt-free college means that every student in America, regardless of their financial means, should be able to attend a public college or university and graduate without student debt.
In weekly calls and in meetings over the past few months, Hillary Clinton’s policy team has been soliciting input from policy experts with ties to Sen. Elizabeth Warren, with the goal of making student loan reform the core of Clinton’s economic agenda.
