Immigrants Push Western Union to Share the Wealth (The Nation; 5/28/07)
For Mother's Day, Martha Ugarte sent $100 from Los Angeles to her 67-year-old mother in Oaxaca, Mexico. For this, she paid $14.95 to Western Union, and lost another $2 in the exchange rate commission. It's this 17 percent fee that has her outraged, and it explains why she decided to travel across th...