More than three quarters (78%) of self-employed people – such as Deliveroo and Uber drivers – on a low income in London will be more than £4,000 a year worse off as a result of universal credit, according to a study by the Policy in Practice consultancy.
He credits it instead to a study by Sheila Tobias, Daryl Chubin, and Kevin Aylesworth.
Sex workers perceive stigma from researchers in cases where they do not feel credited for their contributions to a study: Sex worker groups often feel that non-sex work researchers want to 'take over' and do not credit the specialist knowledge that sex workers have about their own community.
Consumers using cash-back credit cards spent more and accrued more debt than consumers using non-reward credit cards, according to a study from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
What makes it worse is that anyone under 21 is 18% less likely to get a credit card, according to a study on young borrowers by the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
Well, it turns out that your propensity to wait (or not) is also reflected in your credit score, according to a study from researchers at Columbia and Stanford published online in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
The losers would be the many and the hard pressed: a married couple with three children and earnings at the estimated poverty line ($27,713) would lose $1,934 in tax credits in 2013, according to a study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Indeed, consumers spend 12 to 18 percent more when they use credit instead of cash, according to a study by Dun and Bradstreet.
According to a study by credit management group Intrum Justitia, businesses in Europe write off roughly $416 million annually in unpaid bills due to late or non-payment.
Only 21percentt of the 77,000 rental units in the five parishes in the New Orleans metropolitan area are slated to be rebuilt through government grants and tax credits, according to a recent study by PolicyLink, a nonprofit research institute, with a disproportionate number for families on teacher or police officer salaries, rather than much lower-paid home health aides or hotel clerks.
