Backlash to Debit Card “Paychecks”

In the aftermath of all the attention paid to corporations like McDonald’s trying to recreate the Gilded Age through debit card “paychecks” that force workers to pay to get their own money, companies have begun backing off. At least some McDonald’s are now offering their workers a choice in how they receive their paychecks, while New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has launched an investigation of their use in his state, with the hopes for a bill outlawing them to pass the state legislature.