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2018

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• Dept. of Education to cancel $150 million in student loan debt. The U.S. Department of Education announced it would automatically cancel $150 million in student loans connected to for-profit colleges that closed in recent years. The discharge of loans applies automatically to about 15,000 students who attended

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• Women increasingly moving into male-dominated jobs. Traditionally male industries have made a comeback. The three fastest-growing sectors since December 2016 have been the three that are most male-dominated: mining, construction, and transportation and utilities. Yet in the same period women&rsquo

• Were you shocked by how much location data your cellphone tracks?. I wrote an article in May about a company that bought access to data from the major U.S. cellphone carriers. My reporting showed that the company, Securus Technologies, allowed law enforcement to get this

• Education Department reaches out to students of defunct for-profit college. Almost 20,000 students pursuing degrees at for-profit colleges owned by the Education Corporation of America are grappling with the uncertainty of their academic future. Last week, with days left in the semester at many of its

• EEUU perdona deudas a estudiantes que no se pudieron graduar. El gobierno estadounidense le perdonará las deudas a 15.000 estudiantes cuyas universidades cerraron antes de que pudieran graduar.

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• The real scandals are the ones we aren't looking at. You’ve got to hand it to Mick Mulvaney for his creativity. It was a year ago the former congressman and current Trump administration budget director was appointed to make the Consumer Financial Protection

• Affordable Care Act enrollment is almost over and sign-ups are lagging. Obamacare sign-ups are now down 500,000, or 12 percent, from last year with just a few days of open enrollment left to go. Through six weeks of open enrollment this year, 4.1 million people have signed up for 2019

• CFPB moves to further ease enforcement on financial industry. The CFPB is proposing new rules surrounding “no-action letters”. The no-action letter is an assurance from the bureau that it won’t take action against a financial services provider for trying a

• Elizabeth Warren doubles down on affordable housing legislation. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) doubled down on her strategy to fix America’s housing crisis. Along with Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) and Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI), she introduced the American Housing and Economic Mobility

• Cómo calificar para la condonación de préstamos por servicio público. Cuando la maestra de matemáticas de la escuela secundaria Inna Kopelevich tomó $40,000 en préstamos estudiantiles para obtener una maestría en educación, no le preocupaba...

• Acceso al crédito, el problema del 80% de los pequeños negocios. Son el 7% de la fuerza laboral del país Ocho de cada 10 pequeñas empresas de EEUU solo tiene un empleado...

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• How much should first-time homebuyers spend?. New research sheds fresh light on one of the most frequently asked home-buying questions, especially for first-timers: With our annual income, what price house can we afford? Is there some handy rule of thumb?

• U.S. investigators point to China in Marriott hack. U.S. government investigators increasingly believe that Chinese state hackers were most likely responsible for the massive intrusion reported last month into Marriott’s Starwood chain hotel reservation system, a breach that exposed the

• How retailers make fools of us at the sales rack. Sales make us irrational and thus susceptible to various marketing ploys. The more you know about how sales work, the less you might be inclined to pat yourself on the back for what you think

• El calentamiento global ya existió… y acabó con casi toda la vida. Hace 252 millones de años, faltó poco para que la Tierra muriera. En los océanos, se extinguió el 96 por ciento de todas las especies. Es más difí

• 8 pasos esenciales para la planificación patrimonial. Una de las formas más importantes de protegerte tú y a tus seres queridos es establecer un plan patrimonial confiable completo con documentos claves, como un testamento y un poder notarial duradero.

• ¿Quieres un aumento de sueldo? Estas son las mejores y las peores formas de pedirlo. Te presentamos tres maneras que te ayudarán a lograr tu objetivo y tres que, de usarlas, te asegurarán un "no" como respuesta El fin de año se

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• Equifax data breach was "entirely preventable". A scathing new report finds one of the largest data breaches in U.S. history was "entirely preventable." A 14-month congressional investigation slammed credit rating agency Equifax for lacking preventative measures in a

• Are you ready for the financial crisis of 2019?. Here are five ways things could get bad for everyone.

• Wells Fargo tops government report on fees paid by students. Wells Fargo charges students the most in fees on average to have a bank account, according to a government report.