by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Apr 21, 2016 | News
Bank penalty fees and closed accounts are common, hidden costs of online payday loans, according to a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau report. A consumer who receives an online payday loan provides their bank account information to the lending group, which submits...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Apr 20, 2016 | News
Nearly 565,000 people were among the U.S. homeless identified during a one-night count in January 2015, according to the National Alliance to End Homelessness’ (NAEH) 2016 State of Homelessness report. Sixty-nine percent of those counted were in shelters or...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Apr 19, 2016 | News
U.S. citizens who are “highly religious” – praying daily and attending religious services weekly – tend to be happier, to spend time with extended family and to volunteer, according to the Pew Research Center. Forty percent of highly religious...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Apr 15, 2016 | News
The strength of civil society has increased globally in recent years, giving “ordinary citizens more power and responsibility” and threatening “governments that wish to monopolize power and evade responsibility.” Yet, in 2015 a “global...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Apr 14, 2016 | News
Lower rainfall totals, poor harvests, soaring food prices and an economic downturn, coupled with ongoing conflict, have created record levels of food insecurity in South Sudan, according to a U.N. World Food Programme report. Nearly half of the nation’s 11.8...
by Brian Kaylor | Apr 7, 2016 | News
One of the dominant media narratives about religion in the 2016 presidential campaign remains that Republican frontrunner Donald Trump wins among self-identified evangelicals. However, an analysis of the voting data actually demonstrates the business mogul is merely...
