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A RAND study concluded that the total federal cost of providing medical expenses for the 78% illegal immigrants without health insurance coverage was $1.1 billion, with immigrants paying $321 million of health care costs out-of-pocket. The study found that illegal immigrants tend to visit physicians less frequently than U.S. citizens because ...
The Durbin amendment, implemented by Regulation II, [ 1] is a provision of United States federal law, 15 U.S.C. § 1693o-2, that requires the Federal Reserve to limit fees charged to retailers for debit card processing. It was passed as part of the Dodd–Frank financial reform legislation in 2010, as a last-minute addition by Dick Durbin, a ...
International money transfers made by migrant workers and immigrants sending a portion of their earnings to their families in their country of origin are known as remittances. Remittances are an important aspect of the global economy, totaling an estimated $601 billion (USD) for the year 2015. [ 1] The United States is currently the largest ...
Offering in-state tuition to non-citizens is an incentive that will exacerbate our broken immigration system. Vote no on Arizona's Proposition 308. Proposition 308 sidesteps the real issue: It'll ...
Plyler v. Doe, 457 U.S. 202 (1982), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States struck down a state statute denying funding for education to undocumented immigrant children. The case simultaneously struck down a municipal school district's attempt to charge such immigrants an annual $1,000 tuition fee to compensate for state funding.
Currently, swipe fees average about 2% per transaction and are only lowered by “at least 0.04 percentage points.”. This means on a $100 sale, the $2 fee will be reduced to a maximum of $1.96 ...
Interchange fee is a term used in the payment card industry to describe a fee paid between banks for the acceptance of card-based transactions. Usually for sales/services transactions it is a fee that a merchant's bank (the "acquiring bank") pays a customer's bank (the "issuing bank"). In a credit card or debit card transaction, the card ...
Credit Card Competition Act would fix a broken payments market. Swipe fees are ultimately paid by consumers, totaling $1.8 billion in Tennessee last year. Nationwide, they have more than doubled ...