Sniping at Charges for Swiping Debit Cards

摘要

Jennifer Cavallaro's day job is owner of a restaurant in Bristol, R.I. Over the past year she has moonlighted as an amateur lobbyist. She's one of a small army of business owners who helped beat Wall Street in a fight to reduce the fees banks charge retailers for accepting debit cards, a develop- ment that promised to deliver big savings for her Beehive Cafe-un-til the Federal Reserve stepped in.