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Kay Hagan on Corporations
Democratic Jr Senator; previously member of State Senate
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Clamp down on $40B payday lending industry
How about payday lending--the largely unregulated advances on a paycheck that carry out interest rate s in the triple digits? In Missouri, for example, rates can top 60%. Yes, you read right. Not exactly a recipe for "financial stability." North
Carolinas's Kay Hagan offered an amendment to the Restoring American Financial Stability Act that would have clamped down on the $40 billion industry. It was killed without a vote.
Source: Third World America, by Arianna Huffington, p. 25
, Sep 2, 2010
Rated 86% by UFCW, indicating an anti-management/pro-labor record.
Hagan scores 86% by UFCW on labor-management issues
The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) is North America's Neighborhood Union--1.3 million members with UFCW locals in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Canada. Our members work in supermarkets, drug stores, retail stores, meatpacking and meat processing plants, food processing plants, and manufacturing workers who make everything from fertilizer to shoes. We number over 60,000 strong with 25,000 workers in chemical production and 20,000 who work in garment and textile industries.
The UFCW Senate scorecard is based on these key votes: - American Jobs Act (+)
- Balanced Budget Amendment (-)
- Rejecting Cut, Cap, and Balance (+)
- Repeal Health Care Law (-)
- Sen. Am. 14 Wicker Am. to S 223, excluding unionization at TSA (-)
- Sen. Am. 740 McCain Am. to HR 2112, defunding TAA (-)
- Trade Adjustment Assistance Extension Act (TAA) (+)
Source: UFCW website 12-UFCW-S on May 2, 2012
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