Marian Wang
Marian Wang was a reporter for ProPublica, covering education and college debt.
Marian Wang was a reporter for ProPublica, covering education and college debt. She joined ProPublica in 2010, first blogging about a variety of accountability issues. Her later stories focused on how rising college costs and the complexity of the student loan system affect students and their families. Prior to coming to ProPublica, she worked at Mother Jones magazine in San Francisco and freelanced for a number of Chicago-based publications, including The Chicago Reporter, an investigative magazine focused on issues of race and poverty.
In Fight Over Debit Card Fees, a Loss for the Banks
It's missed one Dodd-Frank deadline already, but a proposal to curb the transaction fees banks earn from debit cards seems back on track to take effect in July. Lawmakers today voted against delaying it as banks had hoped.
by Marian Wang,
John Edwards Cheat Sheet: What Are the Facts, and Do They Make Him a Criminal?
Sex scandals, messy cover-ups and even messier fessing-ups. They're all but routine in Washington, but here's why the case against John Edwards isn't.
by Marian Wang,
Automakers' Bailout and Bankruptcies Shortchanged Accident Victims
The government bailout and restructuring of GM and Chrysler may have saved the companies from collapse, but it left thousands of car-accident victims in the lurch.
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