CUInsight Minute with Lauren Culp – August 19, 2022
Our favorites from the week in sixty seconds.
Welcome to the CUInsight Minute, sixty seconds from our Publisher & CEO Lauren Culp with our favorite reads from the week.
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Don’t let them fool you: Interchange legislation hurts CUs and their members.
by B. DAN BERGER, NAFCU
Last month, Senators Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, introduced legislation to expand the “Durbin Amendment,” which was enacted in 2010 as part of the Dodd-Frank Act. This NAFCU-opposed legislation, the Credit Card Competition Act, aims to expand interchange price controls by creating a new credit card routing mandate, which would be a direct detriment to credit unions and their members. (read more)
Prevent digital decay: 7 practices to optimize your website’s health and longevity
by CAMERON MADILL, PIXELSPOKE
I have yet to meet anyone who loves to floss…and no one less so than my father 🤣. But since we all know it’s important to prevent gum disease and cavities, many of us do it anyway, if somewhat grudgingly. We know that the long-term benefits outweigh the ongoing hassle, and we’d hate to find ourselves in a dentist’s chair undergoing a costly—and potentially painful—procedure that we could have prevented with just a little more preventive care. (read more)
“9 to 5” isn’t just a movie
by CARLYN ROY, HUMANIDEI
Jane Fonda brought attention to 9-to-5 when she drafted the script for the iconic film in 1978, but it’s so much more than just an entertaining movie: It’s based on true stories from female workers shared through the 9-to-5 Movement that started in 1972. Karen Nussbaum and Ellen Cassidy co-founded the “9 to 5 movement” by organizing the “Harvard Office Workers Group.” Both women, who met in college in 1968, worked at Harvard in clerical positions. (read more)
*Don’t forget to register for our webinar on August 24 at 1pm ET: “Leverage Credit Data to Create a Strong Digital Lending Strategy” with SavvyMoney President & CEO JB Orecchia. Learn more here.
