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Without Earned Wage Access, Connecticut Working Families Have to Go Without Basic Necessities

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New Research from the University of Connecticut Demonstrates the Negative Impact of State’s 2024 Decision to Shutdown Instant EWA Services

MANSFIELD, Conn., April 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — New, independent research from the University of Connecticut, commissioned by DailyPay, illustrates the negative impact on Connecticut workers from the state’s January 2024 decision limiting their ability to instantly access their earned but unpaid wages. The research highlights the results of a survey, conducted in February and March 2025, following a measure by the state legislature that effectively shut down Earned Wage Access (EWA) services that had been available to workers in Connecticut for nearly a decade.

Over two-thirds (67%) of the survey respondents stated that prior to the shutdown, EWA had positively impacted their financial situation. The new research shows that at that time, EWA users were primarily using their earned wages to pay for food or groceries (85%), transportation or gas (63%), and rent or mortgage (59%). Additionally, most of the respondents in the sample were women (64%), the majority of whom have children in the home, and who the research describes as being credit-constrained and living paycheck-to-paycheck.

As a result, the EWA shutdown had negative impacts on this population. The UConn research finds that working families in Connecticut went without what they needed (36%) or relied on more expensive methods — including using a credit card (26%) — or borrowed from friends and family (31%) to afford necessities. Unfortunately, some were even driven to sell items of value (14%), while others turned to pawning items (8%) and taking out payday loans (6%). The finance charge for a payday loan ranges from $10 to $30 for every $100 borrowed.

“Currently, when families are feeling the crunch of high cost-of-living, as well as cut backs on food benefits, an avenue for people to access necessities is blocked. As a result, they either go without or turn to using credit cards with their related high fees, or other predatory alternatives,” Professor Raissian noted. “The Connecticut legislature should consider measures, like Senate Bill 1396, which help working families access the resources they need, provided by Earned Wage Access, while ensuring key consumer protections.”

“This report confirms what we’ve long known — Earned Wage Access is a lifeline for working families,” said Phil Goldfeder, CEO of the American Fintech Council. “Connecticut didn’t eliminate financial need by curbing access to EWA, it simply took away a resource that helped families meet those needs with dignity. The result has been predictable and painful: more reliance on pawn shops and predatory loans. We urge Connecticut lawmakers to consider thoughtful regulation like SB 1396 that prioritizes transparency and consumer protection, while preserving access to critical financial flexibility tools that workers need.”

Read the Connecticut Earned Wage Access User Impact Study here.

Survey Methodology:
Data was collected via a quantitative online research survey fielded February 25, 2025March 9, 2025. Responses were collected from direct emails from leading EWA vendors.

Good Policy Partners is a communications and advocacy consultant to DailyPay.

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amy@goodpolicypartners.com

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TGT Technology Debuts at the Japan IT WEEK Spring Exhibition, Creating a New Future of Intelligent Connectivity

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TOKYO, April 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — TGT Technology, a world-leading mobile Internet of Thing (AIoT) platforms has made its debut at the 35th Japan IT WEEK Spring conference under the theme “Intelligent Innovation, Industrial Empowerment”, presenting its cutting-edge cloud-based IoT communication platform alongside a suite of innovative products and solutions designed to enhance global connectivity with greater efficiency and intelligence.

TGT Technology is a globalization Technology company, our commitment is to develop the world ‘s most advanced mobile IoT (AIoT) platform, delivering “high-performance, high-efficiency, and cost-effective “in intelligence connectivity and operational management services. The company serves customers in over 50 countries and regions worldwide, including Europe, the United States, and Southeast Asia, and is experiencing rapid global growth. Since entering the Japanese market, Tugo Technology has gained recognition and trust from customers with its innovative cloud communication products and services.

At this year’s Japan IT WEEK Spring conference, TGT Technology became a focal point of industry attention. TGT’s AIoT platform integrates more than 300 telecom operator’s networks worldwide, ensuring seamless coverage across more than 200 countries and regions, empowers and supports the global expansion of Japanese smart enterprises. The company’s proprietary vSIM solution—featuring in vSIM MiFi, vSIM CPE, vSIM Dongle, vSIM Vehicle, vSIM Modules, and vSIM Industrial Gateways. It combines premium smart hardware with value-added data services and has been widely acclaimed. In addition, TGT’s comprehensive eSIM solution eliminates the need for physical SIM cards, enabling instant network switching, multi-device support, flexible data plans, and global coverage across 200+ destinations— which is making it the international business travelers to have a cost effective and globalize seamless connection experiences. It is leading the future of travel eSIM.

The Japanese market is a really important part of TGT Technology’s global layout and has specific strategic significance. TGT highly values the needs and expectations of its Japanese customers. In the future, TGT will continue to intensify its efforts in the Japanese market, deepen cooperation with local business partners, and continuously deliver more innovative, smarter, and cost-effective cloud communication products and data services to its clients.

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Neusoft Showcases at Japan IT Week Spring 2025

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TOKYO, April 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The Japan IT Week Spring 2025 opened this week at the Tokyo Big Sight exhibition center. Neusoft Corporation (SSE: 600718, Neusoft), an industry-leading information technology, products and solutions company for the global market, showcased its full-stack business offerings tailored for Japan market. The company demonstrated its strong expertise and key strengths in accelerating customers’ product innovation and digital transformation, as well as its commitment to collaborative innovation with Japanese customers in the era of intelligence.

Japan IT Week is Japan’s leading exhibition for system development, operation and maintenance. The exhibition encompasses cutting-edge domains such as software & application development, IoT, and Edge Computing, etc. Leveraging over three decades of experience in Japan market, combined with its outstanding technological expertise and localized service capabilities, Neusoft drew the attention of many attendees at the exhibition. The company showcased an impressive array of leading-edge products, solutions, and services, including intelligent device solutions, enterprise digital transformation solutions, in-vehicle integrated cockpit system development, cloud application development, and generative AI, etc.

In the field of digital transformation, Neusoft combines successful practices across multiple industries with integration capabilities in advanced technologies such as public cloud, BI, and AI-IoT, to deliver efficient and reliable digital transformation support that is both innovative and practical for customers across various sectors. Through optimized architecture design solutions, Neusoft empowers customers to achieve comprehensive advancement from technology application to business value creation. During the exhibition, Neusoft also hosted a seminar titled “The Evolution of Enterprise Management and Operational Support – Leveraging Digital Transformation for Effective Data Utilization and Application Optimization,” offering insights on how businesses can navigate through challenges and achieve operational excellence amid the digital transformation wave.

In the automotive electronics sector, Neusoft, as a software innovation partner for global automakers and industry chain customers, focuses on software technology and offers software platforms, software components & solutions, and software engineering services, etc. to Japan market, helping clients tackle new challenges in the era of software-defined vehicles. With over three decades of experience in the field, Neusoft automotive products have been applied to 1800+ vehicle models, across 100+ countries and regions. Neusoft’s newly launched product portfolios of Neusoft A3 Cockpit-Driving-Parking Platform, Neusoft NeuMind Empowerment System for automotive industry, and OneCoreGo® Global In-Vehicle Intelligent Mobility Solutions 6.0. are designed to further accelerate the realization of diverse scenarios in intelligent mobility ecosystem for Japan and global customers.

Japan has always been one of the important markets for Neusoft, and through long-term partnerships, the company has fostered deep understanding and trust with numerous Japanese customers. In the digital and intelligent era, Neusoft will continue to collaborate closely with Japanese customers to embrace new opportunities, and jointly create a sustainable future. In the field of international software services, Neusoft focuses on customer value, integrates mature expertise and software engineering practices, to accelerate customers’ product innovation, empower their digital transformation, helping them achieve business growth by open innovation.

For more information about Neusoft, please visit www.neusoft.com.

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NX Philippines Commemorates World Water Day with Cleanup Effort

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– Community Working Together to Conserve Water Resources –

TOKYO, April 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Nippon Express (Philippines) Corporation (hereafter “NX Philippines”), a group company of NIPPON EXPRESS HOLDINGS, INC., conducted a cleanup activity in Taguig City near Manila on Saturday, March 22 to commemorate “World Water Day.”

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The United Nations has designated March 22 of each year as “World Water Day” to promote water resource development and conservation as well as educational activities across the globe. NX Philippines is actively involved in environmental protection activities to achieve sustainable societies and, in conjunction with this observance day, it conducted a cleanup effort along the Pinagsama Creek flowing through Taguig City.

This effort was carried out in the Philippines this year under the theme “Glacier Preservation: Bayanihan sa Katubigan, Krisis sa Klima Labanan” (Glacier Preservation: Helping Each Other to Secure Water and Fighting the Climate Crisis) with the aim of raising awareness about climate change. Thirty-three employees from NX Philippines joined in the endeavor — conducted in cooperation with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources’ Environmental Management Bureau (EMB-DENR), the Department of Health (DOH), the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), and local government units (LGUs) — and worked together with local volunteers to remove debris and pick up trash, using this valuable opportunity to reaffirm the importance of managing and conserving local water resources through cleanup efforts.

The NX Group will continue fulfilling its responsibility for social development by connecting people, companies, and communities, and will actively work to preserve the global environment to realize sustainable societies.

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NX Group official website: https://www.nipponexpress.com/
NX Group’s official LinkedIn account: https://www.linkedin.com/company/nippon-express-group/ 

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