These accounts, though still rare, link a savings account to a certificate of deposit, checking account or even debit card. The lure is greater access to your savings or higher interest rates -- sometimes more than 6 percent. Like many linked savings accounts, there are restrictions and caveats that sometimes can be complicated -- but lucrative, experts say.
As so often, some of the sharpest political insights come not from the sage columnists of our upmarket papers but from comedy writers. They have noticed â and exploited â some of the social class cross-currents that conventional analysis has tended to overlook. Fifty years ago, things were so much simpler. The working classes voted Labour while the middle classes voted Conservative. In 1967 Peter Pulzer, a distinguished political scientist, wrote: âClass in the basis of British politics. All else is embellishment and detail.â He had good reason to say this. Labour had won the general election a year earlier by winning more than 60% of working class votes.
School choiceâpast and present. 1  Undermining public education is how a democracy comes apart. 2  Historic affiliation will help combat austerity and boost the fight for public education and economic opportunity. 3  The battle against cuts is truly a fight to protect and better the prospects of millions of children and families.