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Knowing in advance what your specialist will charge is a good step forward. But we need fairer fees to start with.
Courts and universities should distinguish between students who won’t pay and those who can’t – and help them to pay.
Imposing fees and surcharges on credit and debit cards no longer works in a predominantly cashless society.
Financial institutions are meant to have reliable payment systems in place. But more work needs to be done to ensure they do this.
In a move that could reshape how Australians pay for everyday purchases, the federal government is preparing to ban businesses from slapping surcharges on debit card transactions. This plan, pending a…
The answer lies in the tax code.
Retail stores in Boulder, Colo., banned plastic bags and will charge 10 cents for paper bags in an effort to reduce plastic waste. But do bans and taxes like this really work?
As federal student loan debt continues to rise, a number of scholars discuss how debt affects the nation’s college students, graduates and the economy as a whole.
The way most dentists in Australia are paid encourages over-servicing. So how do we know the treatment your dentist recommends is actually necessary?
Unions should move their focus away from traditional collective bargaining and instead embrace new ways to attract new members, such as by offering discounted benefits and engaging in more advocacy.
Seeking and making sense of specialist fees is an unfair burden to place on vulnerable patients. A website might be helpful for some – but health professionals need to be held to higher account.
South Africa students are protesting and have brought university campuses to a stand still. This could have been avoided.
More government funding is needed to offset rising costs for registration, equipment and lessons and keep children involved in sport.
Global travelers are being increasingly asked if they want to pay for local purchases in terms of their home country currency. Here’s why you should resist the strong temptation to do so.
As the federal government changes the rules around credit cards, it should force companies to be more transparent about fees.
Charging consumers different prices for the same service is actually a very common practice called “price discrimination”.
Entities at the centre of the storm engulfing South Africa’s social grants distribution system have claimed to be champions of financial inclusion. The claim in itself is scandalous.
Finance minister Pravin Gordhan announced that government expenditure on higher education and specifically universities will be the fastest growing expenditure items on the budget.
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