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ABC kicked off and closed its newscast with a couple of economy stories. Bank of America, Capital One and Chase Bank inspired Dan Harris' (embargoed link) lead when they each announced hikes in the annual interest rates charged on credit cards, up to as high as 24% . Harris pointed out that the fine print in the card contract makes it legal: "It sounds like a great way for them to make easy money," he suggested. When the banks were confronted with the possibility that they were squeezing cardholders to compensate for big losses in home mortgages, they denied that rationale "vehemently." To close the newscast, Betsy Stark visited the same South Carolina warehouse that NBC's Mika Brzezinski checked out last summer. Walgreen's drugstore employs 700 workers there, and by an outreach hiring effort, 40% of them are disabled. Stark introduced us to Down Syndrome workers, and mentally retarded, and autistic, and palsied, and blind, and armless, and wheelchairbound: "Abled and disabled workers do many of the same jobs and earn the same pay."
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